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The document traces the evolution of the Indian blouse from 320 AD to present day. It discusses different styles of blouses that were popular during different historical periods in India like the Mughal era, Victorian era, 1920s-1950s and more recently 2000s, influenced by fashion trends, movies and designers.

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The document traces the evolution of the Indian blouse from 320 AD to present day. It discusses different styles of blouses that were popular during different historical periods in India like the Mughal era, Victorian era, 1920s-1950s and more recently 2000s, influenced by fashion trends, movies and designers.

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1600 - 1850

During the Mughal era, Hindu


women wore pleated sarees with
high necklines and fitted sleeve
blouses which were called as Choli 1850-1910
back then. Every region had its Victorian era
own style of craft used for deco- inspired blouses that
1920
rating the cholis and sarees had long sleeves and Jnanadanandini Debi,
high necklines influ- sister in law of Rabin-
320 A.D. enced Indian women dranath Tagore, popu-
During the Gupta dynasty, due to the british larised the blouses,
women wore a stitched upper- rule. The English chemises and the
garment like a breast band term ‘blouse’made a modern style of saree
called uttariya along with a leap into the Indian today.
lower garment called antariya. vocabulary. 1930-1950
Blouses were experimented
using laces, boat neck and
full puff sleeves.

1960-1970
This period saw the emer-
gence of Bollywood and
their influence. Sleeveless
and boat neck blouses
Evolution of Indian with different fabrics and
patterns were used.

Blouse Mumtaz, Nargis and other


actresses sported such
different looks for the first
320A.D.-2019 time

1980-1990
In the 80’s, lowcut and back-
less blouses with cap sleeves
2000-2019 were a big trend whereas in
the 90’s a Yash Raj heroine in
It was the age of supermodels and
a chiffon saree with matching
the openly sexy net sarees with
blouses made the women ditch
equally revealing blouses were the
their opaque printed sarees
trend of 20’s. As of now a variety
of patterns like collar necks and
bustier blouses by high end fash-
ion designers are very much in
fashion.

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