Colors of India: Northern fashion
22nd Feb. '08 • Color Around the World • Tags: fashion, India
Filed as Kate Smith
After my meeting today I had time for a quick street tour of Delhi and a stop at Humayun’s Tomb before going to my client’s home for an Indian dinner.
Driving past hundreds of people gave me a sense of styles and colors but as my driver navigated the hundreds of cars, buses, mini cabs, moped riders and pedestrians in the streets it was impossible to get a picture that was in focus. Luckily when I walked about the grounds of the Tomb I was able to snap a few good shots.
These two young women happily posed to show off their saris. You can see my driver in the background. He is wearing a combination I saw on many men– classic colored slacks with a boldly colored shirts although the colors worn by the men in general are not as intense as those worn by the women.
Even young boys wore jeans or classic colored slacks with lots of color in their shirts or sweaters.
Two more young women who had seemed as interested in what I was wearing as I was in their wardrobe choices. Perhaps they were wondering why I had chosen navy blue and white.
Young and old alike gave me a show with their intensely colored saris.
I’m not sure why most of the local visitors to Humayun’s Tomb were women. Possibly they came with a group of men that were playing cricket in the field just outside the grounds.
I snapped my own shot of this group picture and my doing so seems to have distracted a few of the women in the top row.
Here two women have paired their traditional sari with denim jackets mixing the looks of east and west.
