With the festive season, lighting up right now, it is also time for the marriage season. You will definitely have weddings to attend and how can you make an appearance without looking glamorous. Of course, you have options like traditional kanjeevaram saris, ornate salwar kameez or lehengas. However, there is no harm if you try out some new styles. Come forward and enter the world of gararas and shararas. Designer Nisha Merchant says that Bollywood has always been a big trendsetter of fashion and one can easily go back to our movies, to actresses like Meena Kumari, and Mumtaz or even Rekha in Umrao Jaan and Tabu in Maqbool who carried off the garara with such lan. Recently the show of this designer won accolades at the Wills Fashion Week in Delhi when actress walked gracefully on the ramp in a captivating emerald green garara designed by Nisha.
According to designer Nisha Merchant, gararas are somewhat like pants that are fitted around the thighs until roughly 3 inches above the knee. They connect a bias fabric with a plenty of gathers around the bottom. A garara comes with horizontal joint and may also have some vertical panels as well. If you want to look very pretty then you should wear a garara with a long choli along with a beautiful dupatta in a single shade. Nowadays you can opt for plenty of other variations as well. Designers Vikrant and Ashish Parikh experimented with the look. They went for a short blouse like choli, instead of the regular one and used a heavily sequined and embroidered dupatta.
A sharara shares similarity with a lehengas in terms of looks. You can call shararas as wide legged pants, which have good fitting until the knee and then flare out like a skirt. They also look like a full skirt that comes with a drawstring waist. Recently designer Pallavi Jaikishan displayed her shararas at the Couture Week that was held in Mumbai. According to her the sharara is structured in such a way, that it looks like it has vertical panels. Care is taken to ensure that it does not have horizontal cuts. If you want your tailor to stitch some nice shararas for you then you need to shop for the right materials. Flowing fabrics such as georgette and chiffon work bets for shararas. Highlight the shararas with a brocade or net dupatta, embroidered choli, and beautiful traditional jewelry.