The vintage saree blouse has kind of taken over my spare time. For the most part, it is interesting and I keep reformulating my views on everything past. I now need to make an illustration book of the blouse styles I have come across:) The constant interplay between Indian attire and Western fashions and how specific each decade can be in terms of blouse patterns, fabric and drape is fascinating.
I should perhaps cover a few of the later decades but the 1900s-1950s are still my favourites. The last few posts I did have been on period drama and I was quite surprised at the care that had been taken over Sahib, Bibi and Ghulam.
For the folk who find tumblr difficult to navigate, the posts are now duplicated at wordpress. I could have duplicated it here but importing the stuff to wordpress proved to be easier. I myself love tumblr. The friendliness of strangers, the completely mysterious ways in which a post goes viral. The many tumblr names, all offering little clues to the person behind it. And that post on some obscure book that is liked by a few and suddenly you are mysteriously connected to someone somewhere in the world who was as moved by it as you.
And I have another tumblr. It is very much low key and intended to replace my facebook posts as I rarely use it these days. I post now and then on the tumblr site and my intention is to keep it a "calm" space. So its probably going to be slowly populated but if you want the equivalent of reading a picture book while drinking tea pop over to text image poetry!
I should perhaps cover a few of the later decades but the 1900s-1950s are still my favourites. The last few posts I did have been on period drama and I was quite surprised at the care that had been taken over Sahib, Bibi and Ghulam.
For the folk who find tumblr difficult to navigate, the posts are now duplicated at wordpress. I could have duplicated it here but importing the stuff to wordpress proved to be easier. I myself love tumblr. The friendliness of strangers, the completely mysterious ways in which a post goes viral. The many tumblr names, all offering little clues to the person behind it. And that post on some obscure book that is liked by a few and suddenly you are mysteriously connected to someone somewhere in the world who was as moved by it as you.
And I have another tumblr. It is very much low key and intended to replace my facebook posts as I rarely use it these days. I post now and then on the tumblr site and my intention is to keep it a "calm" space. So its probably going to be slowly populated but if you want the equivalent of reading a picture book while drinking tea pop over to text image poetry!
