Remembering those days when I wore Pavadai

Dear Viji,
Your post brought back many good memories of 'pavadais of yore'!
I'm saying this because it is not the in-thing to wear it now!
I had my share of pattu pavadis and the 'seeti' ones but loved wearing the ones which would have loads of zari on them!
My daughters have a couple of pavadais each and I make them wear it when there is and occasion!
Lovely nostalgia!

 

You made me nostalgic too viji aunty.

I loved Pavadais - the ones I got only after coming to Chennai (remember I was in Mumbai earlier). Amma used to buy new ones as also stich out of her 9 yrds saree. She hailed from a Palghat Vadhyar's family (Kalpathi Rasa Vadhyar and Rama Vadhyar - why I am mentioning this here, their sons are all in Mumbai and may be you have heard of them. Another thatha of mine was fondly called as Viswanatha Sharma of Goregaon). So even for Nuptials my Paati got my mother a 9 yrd saree - I still remember. It was dark bottle green with self Golden Zari. So 3 yrds were converted to Paavadai and the 6 yrds mom used to wear. Then after coming to Chennai since my chitti's family lived next door and she had 4 daughters in a row all wearing Paavadai, I too developed a liking for Paavadai.

I also once got Chungudi Paavadais - White with Coffee Brown dots - coffee brown border with Rudraksham Zari border. Another one - similar to the above with Dark Green and mustard yellow border and dots.

Since I hated the thought of wearing a Dhavani (I have never ever worn in my life) to College too I was comfortable with Long Skirt and Tops and in II yr itself I switched over to Saree.
Since our family was conservative I did not get to wear Chudis and Jeans and hence I now enjoy them all on my sweet DD!!

Thanks a lot for giving me an opportunity to pour out all these thoughts of yesteryears now.

 

What a sweet post !
As a youngster, I did not wear the lehenga much. It was mostly skirts and jeans. I had two lovely Lehengas ( one was maroon with gold buttas , the other,light blue-dark blue checks) , kept aside to wear during weddings only. And during teenage, I had a green gaghra-choli-chunni set made from a heavy kanjeevaram saree that belonged to my mother.

You wont believe this, but when my son was one and a half, i dressed him in a purple china-silk lehenga, with bindi, hairband, necklace, payal etc.to visit our ancestral temple ! Now he hates seeing that photograph !