Topic started by Sombu Nilagrieser (@ adsl-81-41-150.asm.bellsouth.net) on Sun Oct 28 05:25:45 .
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Tamil women, both in India and in US have given up on Saree. They have embrased Chididhar, maxis, pants and slacks, skirts, and what not. It is pathetic to see women, even older, in maxis or night clothes buying vegetable in the morning out side. It is some times funny to see Indian women in orange color pant with green T-shirt. Nothing wrong if they also pay attention to their tummy and posture. Saree is graceful. Please wearing reconsider sarees.

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• From: malli (@ as-192-17.tm.net.my) on: Sat Apr 24 03:06:35 EDT 2004
  
  does the saree belong to the tamils alone?
  
  
• From: malli (@ as-192-17.tm.net.my) on: Sat Apr 24 03:08:32 EDT 2004
  
  u tamils are too engrossed on trivial matters.unga samuthayathei uyarthapaarunggappa.
  
  
• From: shanti (@ cpe-203-45-4-47.vic.bigpond.net.au) on: Sat Apr 24 21:51:19 EDT 2004
  
  Hey namma samuthayam nalla uyarnthuthan yirukku but the the rich in India are getting richer,corrupted and most of them are big bullies. The poor have to survive with nothing on their plates. Yes, sarees belong to the south Indians and churidhars belong to North Indians. Both the attire suits Indian women well. South Indian women do not wear churidhar for most occasions but North Indian women wear anything from Sarees to Churidhars.
  
  
• From: malli (@ as-192-33.tm.net.my) on: Sat Apr 24 22:40:39 EDT 2004
  
  hey shanti..kovamma? naan kettathu yen chinna-chinna vishayam discuss pandreenga? all i can see in the messages posted here is anger...looks like this forum has become a punching bag of sorts. tell me when,where and how did the saree originate.some say it is of roman origin. Sariya?inthe maari discussion pandulaame!!!
  
  
• From: shanti (@ cpe-203-45-4-47.vic.bigpond.net.au) on: Sun Apr 25 05:17:33 EDT 2004
  
  Hi Malli i have got no idea where sari originate from? Would you know anything abt it then? Well when i find out anything about sarees origin i will let u know. o.k.
  
  
• From: shanti (@ cpe-203-45-4-47.vic.bigpond.net.au) on: Sun Apr 25 05:17:37 EDT 2004
  
  Hi Malli i have got no idea where sari originate from? Would you know anything abt it then? Well when i find out anything about sarees origin i will let u know. o.k.
  
  
• From: malli (@ as-192-238.tm.net.my) on: Mon Apr 26 04:39:11 EDT 2004
  
  only i read somewhere many years ago that it is of roman influence. u know the way the mundani is thrown over the shoulder. like how the romans wore their garb. anywhere i think the way the saree is worn by the various tamil community has their own beauty...in fact the way its worn all over india.looks like we are the only ones interested in this topic.
  
  
• From: shanti (@ cpe-203-45-5-212.vic.bigpond.net.au) on: Mon Apr 26 05:57:50 EDT 2004
  
  Hey i don't live in India. I live downunder. We have beautiful temples and v r more cultured than the Indians in India themselves. I am proud to be an Indian lady and i love wearing a saree whenever i go out to temples and Indian function. Sometimes i crave to buy a saree locally but it takes abt 1 hour to get any sarees around near my place. U do not know how fortunate Indians r who r living there. Even to make a saree blouse v don't get good tailors.
  
  
• From: malli (@ as-192-197.tm.net.my) on: Mon Apr 26 10:02:49 EDT 2004
  
  yes i can see fr ur email add that u don't live in india but surely u would have seen tamil movies right? do u think i live in india?!!! illamma. yes u tend to be more religious and more cultured once u leave your country of origin for fear of losing ur identity. maybe not u but eventually ur descendants might lose it - globalisation? ithu thaan vazhkai. not trying to scare u ok.
  
  
• From: shanti (@ cpe-203-45-4-130.vic.bigpond.net.au) on: Tue Apr 27 08:52:46 EDT 2004
  
  Thank god we think alike. Anyway nice meeting people like u. I do watch tamil movies occasionally. Some movies are worth watching and some r not. Anyway u don't scare me one bit. O.K. Bye for now.
  
  
• From: daveiw (@ ip-200-56-233-5-mx.marcatel.net.mx) on: Sat Oct 30 16:22:39
  
  so what they wear?
  
  
• From: molly (@ ce31.macau.ctm.net) on: Sat Oct 30 23:36:20 EDT 2004
  
  wear nothing,
  
  
• From: ADX (@ 210.193.31.130) on: Mon Nov 1 01:38:35 EST 2004
  
  Hey guys,
  Finally a topic I often think abt! Actually, its not only Tamil women but also Indian women in general who've given up Sarees! And tats really a shame 4 our so-called "Indian Culture" tat we Indians talk abt so much....I'm surprised (& sad) to see women in India itself giving up Sarees & moving towards the sh*t-a** ugly Salwar Kameez/Chudidaar, which makes them (esp. S.Indian women) look like large potatoes....eeyuck! :-P
  Saree is supposed to be Indian women's National dress & its high time our dear "Indian" women realised it! They must understand tat jeans & other tight dresses does NOT suit their figures w/ big backsides/hips & fat legs! Similarily, western women, with their mostly angular figures won't look gud in Sarees!
  
  
• From: davie (@ meta114847.utep.edu) on: Mon Nov 1 05:56:08 EST 2004
  
  " large potatoes."
  lol ADX a good one.
  
  
• From: Vijay (@ pix-fw.wan.aol.com) on: Tue Nov 9 20:52:23 EST 2004
  
  Potatoes wearing Sarees will still look like Potatoes :) But thats beyond the point. Wearing Salwar Kameez/Chudidhar aint that bad. Maybe it seems a bit out of place in the South at present, but soon we will get used to it, and to be honest, Chudidhars are more practical for the modern Indian woman, whether those riding in the back seat or those doing the riding on 2-wheelers.
  
  Now, I am not opposed to girls wearing Chudidhars, or Jeans, or Shorts, or whatever, but I just hope they all understand that you gotta dress to the ocassion. And, the only ocassion where the Maxi/Nighty/whatever belongs is "BED-TIME"!!! So Ladies, please stop roaming around the streets and your porches in them. It just spoils our fresh start of the day.
  
  Anyway, ADX, western women actually look Super HOTTT in Sarees. And ladies, nothing wrong in being proud about your chubby self.
  
  
• From: papa prem (@ mv3-24.217.49.201.charter-stl.com) on: Tue Nov 9 22:19:06 EST 2004
  
  Indian women get into a potato shape cos they dont get out like western women..also cos of banging ur woman daily. but now indian women including tamil girls are modernized.of course I hope they dont get too modernized as like other women cos of female superiority bullsh@#t..u got to see guys here walking behind their women everyday lol.For me Indian women especially south indian women are the right tone of complexion next to mediternean women. and south indian girls, they look great in davani..that's right.
  
  
• From: Papa Prem (@ mv3-24.217.49.201.charter-stl.com) on: Tue Nov 9 23:28:00 EST 2004
  
  I dont think these these kenapayaluga have any aesthetic sense, I dont think they had pretty girl friends ..there are a lot of believers like me..yeah babes.
  
  
• From: Lalith (@ 210.186.217.6) on: Thu Nov 11 08:27:51 EST 2004
  
  Tamil women have given up on sarees-------Would it be better if the title is "Tamil women have given up on blouses"?
  
  
• From: black (@ 24.109.128.230) on: Sat Nov 13 12:17:48 EST 2004
  
  Actually the problem with whole tamil culture. The discussion is all surrounding brahmins-non brahmins, aryans, dravids, hinduism , vedas, thirukural, anti-hindi, white, black.
  Actually Tamils are inferior in all the subjects, they have no history, no culture, no good langauge so all these trouble, and so is this forum. Tamil is basically a rogue community, that is the reason they keep on fighting among themselves, with neighbours like srilanka,karnataka, kerala, with country like india. with white skinned people, with brahmins etc etc.
  No one can help these dirty pigs.
  
  
• From: Hehe (@ 210.193.31.223) on: Sun Nov 14 03:30:54 EST 2004
  
  Lalith wrote: "Would it be better if the title is "Tamil women have given up on blouses"
  
  Naah...they havn't reached there yet! Its only the northies who're starting to do tat! :-P
  
  
• From: davie (@ chmrs5) on: Sun Nov 14 13:27:04 EST 2004
  
  lol.. even in the south this is the trend nowadays. hmm people want to adapt western culture.
  
  
• From: ADX (@ 210.193.31.234) on: Mon Nov 15 06:39:32 EST 2004
  
  Well I'm not entirely against western culture....I believe we cud always choose to follow the best of the west & at the same time preserve the best of our own culture....tats the rite combo....but unftly our ppl. r picking up even the worst of the west & neglecting our own culture/values..:-(
  
  
• From: Watch it (@ 210.193.31.234) on: Mon Nov 15 06:42:09 EST 2004
  
  Black, u seem 2 know so much abt Tamils calling them 'dirty pigs'....& abt fighting w/ Brahmins, which ones do u mean?? There r brahmins among Tamils too!
  What region of India r u from btw? An Wat kinda pig r u??
  
  
• From: davie (@ e228-013.ecc.utep.edu) on: Fri Nov 19 06:17:25 EST 2004
  
  
  just because someone is light skinned he cannot be categorized as medeterranean/persian race coz as you know even mauris/polynesians have light skin and their ancestry is not persian/medeterranean.
  
  
• From: ADX (@ 202.172.58.250) on: Mon Nov 22 04:22:32 EST 2004
  
  Actually Indian women hav given up not only on Sarees but also maintaining long hair, which is euqally sad! Its really sad to see even S.Indian women wit Bob-cut, perm (wich looks like wigs!) & even crop haircuts! They used to look so lovely wit long neatly braided hair adorned wit jasmine or other flowers, which used to give a natural scent, compared to perfumes tat 'modern' women use....!
  Most of em say tat they don't hav time to maintain long hair etc....but even housewives r keeping up w/ this dumb trend! Dense, long hair has rightly been regarded as a symbol of women's beauty in Indian culture....n I too feel its no use if women hav only a good face/figure if they end up having a bob-cut or crop! ;-P
  
  
• From: D (@ 203.101.103.194) on: Wed Nov 24 07:01:07 EST 2004
  
  I guess it is not the problem with women alone who can't mainain long hair. Being a guy, myself cannot maintain hair. So every two weeks I have to go to the saloon,maintaining a crew cut. Ditto in the calse of wearing saree. Though it look beautiful to us guys(It reveals the navel of the woman which is third sexiest place in a famale body. Also it erotically covers othere "good" places as well) for them it is really an effort to maintain. In sun, in wind and worse in rain.
  
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• From: ADX (@ 210.193.31.181) on: Fri Nov 26 03:09:13 EST 2004
  
  So if Sarees really R uncomfy, I'd like to ask how come Indian women (even WORKING ones, who travelled in buses!) had been wearing it everyday for so many decades?? They wud've abandoned it long ago in tat case! N also, today, how come even housewives (who don't hav to hurry to work every morning) find it cumbersome to wear Sarees??
  Oh, n btw, not all women who wore Sarees wore em showing the navel....waist/midriff at the most...even airhostesses on IA now wear em showing most o the belly (but NOT the navel!)... unless ur talkin abt all those film actresses who wear em like tat in their songs/dances! :-P
  
  
• From: AP (@ 84-134.91.219.cable-client.iqara.net) on: Tue Dec 28 02:46:30
  
  Actually I think the main reasons r Indian MEN themselves and Indian (esp. Tamil) movies, which project Sarees as 'sexy' dresses, going by the way those dumb heroines wear them.....men who watch such movies must hav got foolishly illusioned and have begun to look even at Saree-clad women in real life in tat way....women maybe fearing harassment have given up wearing Sarees and going for more 'closed' dresses like Salwarz...so its most of the Indian men who r responsible for women giving up Sarees today....they r destroying their own culture! Unless they realise tat, can't expect women to change either!
  
  
• From: gfsd (@ cache-dtc-ad01.proxy.aol.com) on: Tue Dec 28 05:40:13 EST 2004
  
  AP U r a real indian i salute u.
  
  
• From: AP (@ 91-134.91.219.cable-client.iqara.net) on: Wed Dec 29 07:42:37 EST 2004
  
  Thank u....:>
  
  

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