Women Dupatta
What is the dupatta? The dupatta is a shawl that is historically worn by women in India. The dupatta is now most usually worn over the kurta and the gharara as part of a women's shalwar kameez costume. How does the word dupatta come from? The first evidence of the dupatta may be discovered in the Indus Valley culture, where a sculpture of a priest-king wearing a chaddar on his left shoulder suggests that the dupatta was worn. Early Sanskrit literature used terminology like avagunthana (cloak-veil), uttariya (shoulder-veil), mukha-pata (face-veil), and siro-vastra to describe the veils and scarves worn by women throughout the ancient period (head-veil). The ancient uttariya is thought to have spawned the dupatta. siro-vastra (face veil) and mukha-pata (facial veil) (head-veil). The ancient uttariya is thought to have spawned the dupatta. How the dupattas are worn in India? Across the Indian subcontinent, the dupatta is worn in a variety of regional fashions. It was originally worn...