On Jul 29, 12:23*am, William Black
wrote:
Ganesh wrote:
On Jul 27, 9:21 am, William Black wrote:
In India it is normal for a middle class woman to have a jeweller who
will make her precious metal jewellery for her and costume jewellery is
on sale at just about every street corner.

But, *and it's a big but, *the social opportunities for women *to wear
Western style jewellery are limited. *Younger women could, *but can't
afford it, *and older women tend to wear traditional dress where Western
style jewellery just disappears into the gold thread embroidered *sari

Traditional Ornaments often symbolize various GODs and every ornament
various from place to place. If you try to research a Mangalsutra
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalsutra) you will find it is made at
least using 1000 different types.

As is usual with articles on Wikipedia it's riddled with falsehoods.

Like the bhindi, *the Mangalsutra is worn by Christian and Parsee women
as well as Hindu women these days

I have seen some Christians doing that. They also wear saree instead
of the typical dress code.