Ganesh wrote:
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.

What exactly is 'typical dress code' for Christian ladies in India?

My experience is that they were anything they wish to wear.

My experience in modern India is that ladies tend tow ear pretty much
what they wish.

You get Hindu ladies wearing T-shirt and jeans and Christian ladies
wearing a saree.

To bring it on topic, every Indian lady I know also invariably owns the
appropriate jewellery for the different outfits.

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