Ask any woman who wears the quintessential attire of the sub-continent -- the saree -- about it and she will look at you scornfully and let out a hmmph! which conceals a long, resigned and tiresome tale of draping the 'six yard (now down to five-and-a-half) wonder' as the blissfully ignorant call it.
At first glance, it seems so easy. A long cloth draped around us ! So simple, yet so graceful.
Only those who have battled with the stubborn beauty knows how it has defeated them time and again. They are aware that a saree has an independent mind of its own and looks upon its possessors with contempt. As they are smiling confidently that they have successfully pinned the pleats, a naughty one will slip out of their grasp bringing tears to the eyes. Successfully dazzling others with a saree is by no means a lesser feat, which teenage girls, newly introduced to the saree, will be well aware of as are older women with even half a century experience.
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