photo reconstruction

Fashion Styling photo reconstruction

- 1971 A photograph of my grandmother along with her sisters in the outer courtyard of their house. This picture was taken as a memory of the Tamil new year on Wednesday, April 14th, 1971.

Costume analysis center partition V neck black blouse round bindhi braid plaits high neck blouse gold & glass bangles malipooo low neck black blouse under eye kohl lining kanjeevaram silk saree rubber slippers toe ring loose pallu pleating

Costume Note analysis pure gold zari borders Thick bordered sarees Married women used to wear silk sarees with boat neck, V-neck blouses and black cotton material white cotton material elbow length blouses with 6 wards of for blouse for blouse length and worn Cotton sarees for daily use. Common Thick border patterns with annapakshi, manga yazhi and floral motifs are used commonly over the period of time. These ladies has used grey, peach and blues coloured silk sarees. These women in this picture are wearing leather sandals.

Jewellery Note analysis stone floral earstud Nose pin These women had multiple nose piercing and wore stoned floral ear studs. It’s a mangalsutra & yellow thread mugapu chain mandate to wear both mangal sutra along with yellow thread which is the ''thali Gold bangles glass bangles kaiyaru'' and the elderly had mugapu chain as well. They mix-match gold bangles along with glass bangles of the saree colour. As a symbol of married women they had silver metti on their toe fingers and also silver anklet which is in the form of kaapu with beads inside it. silver ankle kaapu metti

Makeup Note analysis ponds powder chandhu pottu as these women are from Andra Pradesh, wearing tear-dropped bindi was their viccco turmeric cream custom but from the period's movie influences of the heroine with round bindi made the get adored with bindi style and hairstyle as well. As I got to know that my grandmother used to be a fair woman who was also beauty conscious about her looks. They used ponds talcum powder and eyetex kajal for the winged eyeliner and maroon liquid for bindi called Chandu pottu and vicco turmeric cream for fairness. eyetex kajal

Colour & Patterns Motifs observed from the sarees worn by these three women includes ''gopuram border, rettaimayil, and rudraksham with floral'' pattern. #545454 And the colours are grey for the #FDD7A3 first person, peach for the #0CC0DF second and and blue for the third person.

Models

Look 1 - Mrs.Rani Devi model used Jewellery makeup SUGANTHI S ,AD, SEM-4 Outfit Jewellery

Look 2 - Mrs.Shantha devi model used Jewellery makeup Rithaniya ,AD, SEM-4 Outfit Jewellery

Look 3 - Mrs.Uma devi model used Jewellery makeup Sindhu K ,TD, SEM-4 Outfit Jewellery

Final outcome

Final outcome

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