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Six yards of unstitched fabric that out-engineers every garment with a seam.
means A long, unstitched length of cloth draped and wrapped around the body as a traditional garment, typically worn with a fitted blouse and underskirt.
from From Sanskrit 'śāṭī', meaning a strip of cloth or garment, which passed into Prakrit as 'sāḍī' and then into Hindi and other South Asian languages as 'sāṛī'. The word simply tracks the thing itself — a length of fabric — across thousands of years of language, with the draping styles and traditions growing far more elaborate than the plain noun ever suggested.
- origin
- Worn in South Asia for over 5,000 years
- construction
- One rectangular cloth, no cutting or sewing required
- drape styles
- Over 100 documented ways to wear it
- length
- Typically five to nine yards long