Comments on: Purple Reign

By: Fuerza Dulce

Fuerza Dulce — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:03:36 +0000

blockquote>a male would not wear the type of sherwani shilpa is wearing, even though it is called a sherwani

Prince and/or Morris Day David Bowie Steven Tyler Eddie Izzard Dennis Rodman Little Richard all men. Definitely own similar wardrobe items.
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I bet Bill Cosby would rock a sherwani. He used to wear a kurta-pajama to bed.

By: bhang blogger

bhang blogger — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:45:00 +0000

the Queen needs a nice ‘garam’ serving of Punjab ‘tapars’

By: Amrita

Amrita — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:27:38 +0000

I think the curtsey was just “age before beauty”- I mean. she was wearing royal purple, so it would have been a bit much if she also did a Nancy Reagan.

By: Amrita

Amrita — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:03:01 +0000

Its hard to tell who's the queen in the shot above. They both look pretty frumpy. Shilpa would have looked so much better in this.

Not sesasonal, etc., that pharaoh-phugly look-- I say the girl does it all just fine and gets better. She'd do great on the red carpet, not Deepa Mehta, plus she's promoting Tarun Tahiliani, just as she should. Y'all calling sherwanis male gesr, please. This is fashion, that's how it works. Think of all the Dior and YSL's famous Le Smoking,forty years ago and still going strong variations of dinner jackets for women, including one recurring hit in which the jacket is as if thrown on backwards and buttoned down the bare back.

By: payal

payal — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:58:10 +0000

British subjects are expected to curtsey on being presented not citizens of a free country. ‘um…out of respect,maybe?’ for the representative of a country that robbed and oppressed your ancestors for centuries. rani are you for real?

By: DesiDancer

DesiDancer — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:17:40 +0000

a male would not wear the type of sherwani shilpa is wearing, even though it is called a sherwani

Prince and/or Morris Day David Bowie Steven Tyler Eddie Izzard Dennis Rodman Little Richard

all men. Definitely own similar wardrobe items.

By: Rani

Rani — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:42:40 +0000

why is the girl curtseying to the queen of England any way

um... out of respect, maybe...

Silly twit.

oops, above answer may not suffice for you

By: JPT

JPT — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:48:27 +0000

According to the designer, its a “coat” not a sherwani. For those that can’t get enough, there are more pictures of the outfit on their website.

From India Times website: (http://xtraedition.indiatimes.com/quickiearticleshow/msid-1762801.cms) “Shilpa wore a beautiful coat from the new fall collection which will be out at Fashion Week,” says Tarun, who has been designing Shilpa’s wardrobe for long now. “It was a long aubergine, velvet printed coat with flowers brought to life like a Persian carpet with jewel bugs and beetles – very modern Indian orient. This was worn with a tunic,” the designer elaborated.

By: payal

payal — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:10:19 +0000

sherwani or salwar kameez- why is the girl curtseying to the queen of England any way. Didn’t India declare independece a couple of years ago? Silly twit.

By: Rani

Rani — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:44:22 +0000

Not screaming you at all, but to be perfectly accurate

I was referring to the items (churidar, kurta, sherwani) as the outfits people refer to when using that terminology as opposed to the specific pieces (which the name indicates) ...

When someone says they're wearing a sherwani, kurta, etc ... I know what that they mean the whole outfit and not just the individual piece ...

In south india, "churidar" and "salwar" are the common phrases used for the whole outfit.