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Wedding season is here and everyone is looking at the best sari buys. What is really heartening is the trend among younger and younger girls wanting to don the drape. They are spoilt for choice too, of course, as the sari’s pedigree has gotten younger as well and more versatile to suit the eye that seeks it. 

You want a Kanjeevaram but don’t want to carry its traditional weight in kilos? Ask for modern feather-light weaves and wish for a colour-block pallu too – the southern traditionalists won’t disappoint. Or, are you contemplating an ikkat with a touch of kantha on the pleats? The looms are already at work! Madhubani has long since found plush homes in tussar dreams as has jamdani warmed to gota-patti on edge.

Strange though these story-boards may seem to the purist, it is the cocktail that walks the talk now. Your Parsi gara is impressive, sure, but is it a Tahiliani? And that lace number your nemesis from school was wearing at the premier? Did it really trump your Sabyasachi trim? I know, I know, a Satya Paul would have been a better fit, but there is the Saturday kitty coming up too. Plus, no one is expecting your Anita Dongre surprise planned for the reception next week, are they now?

Yes, the sari has come a long way and with top designers curating global ramps with exotic yardage that stuns, it might be worth your while, even if it needs saving up, to claim your own tale from the new repertoire of sari-telling.

Check out these top designers who are the yardage rage today: https://www.looksgud.in/blog/best-luxury-brands-for-saree/

And to see our favourite beauties in these beauties, start here: http://www.stylecraze.com/articles/bollywood-beauties-in-their-best-saris/#gref

So! Who will you wear today?

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Previously on The Whole Nine Yards: It's the saritude, girls 

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