Science on Madisar saree

Hello LakNar,
There used to be lots of miscarriages etc. during old times? If you have granny ask her, 90 % of women those days lost at least 1 baby. There were losts of miscarriages and women losing child after child. people with the names Kuppan, Pitchai and the like would be children born after many such miscarriages. My cousin's mil has 8 sons and 6 daughters and even she had lost a child. My mil had had many miscarriages and also one of her babies' died , then she took medical help amd 2 sons were born after 17 years of the first one. There used to be lots of delivery deaths and we could see many second wives in most families.

 

Dear Vimmala,
there was this old lady tenant in my house who had told me that in her family, girls were taught to wear the madisaar before they got married. This has been going on for many generations. They would be trained well, it seems. She also told me that there is a specific name for each drape of the madisaar.
One funny incident- I attended a wedding in Palghat sometime back. A beautician had come to dress up the bride. But the bride's mother took much time to get ready. The elder daughter draped the madisaar for her mother, don't be shocked, after 6 wrong turns. This beautician was saying that she could have used this chance to learn tie the madisaar (she was a Mallu). I was dumb stuck at that lady's ignorance, she is a granny already.
Our traditional saree is one with kacham in the inside and the pallu draped on the left itself. I learned to wear ti well and wear that way during Pooja, shrardam etc.

 

Dear Varloo

I am in support of madisaar science and thats what I was mentioning about.

Lakshmi

 

But how does it look like, can anyone post a picture, i have never seen that type of saree

 

It is not good to let the body's natural clock hold back on hunger or thirst. Although I belong to the Brahmin community, I am not in favor of Madisaar for myself.