Just because it’s fashionable, you don’t have to wear it! Get to know what colours and style suit you, and stick to variations of this for any season.
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Love lace? These days you can wear lace sarees, lace blouses, lace tops, lace dupattas, lace waistcoats, lace bolero jackets, lace handbags, lace collars, lace hairbands or even lace jewellery. Replace a boring old blouse or kamiz sleeve with a lace one, add lace trim to a plain outfit (e.g. to the sleeves or edge, […]
Years ago I’d often hear my mum talk of ‘chicken’ dresses and ‘chicken blouses’. What were these wonderful outfits, I’d wonder? Were they made of feathers? Or did they have little birds printed on them? Well, neither as it turns out – she was saying chikan, not chicken! Chikan is in fact a type of […]
I’ve always thought that ‘Georgette’ would make quite a pretty girl’s name, a derivative of George. But I never really knew that the fabric ‘georgette’ actually gets its name from a person called Georgette – 20th century French dressmaker Georgette de la Plante, to be precise. The fabric itself it light and somewhat sheer and […]
Saris are fantastic, can be utterly beautiful, and suit most people…but there are still guides to follow if you want to look as slim and trim as possible. Follow the steps below for tricks to look slimmer: Know your colours Some colours are naturally slimming. There’s a reason that most designers and off-duty models wear […]
So here you are at the Punoh website. You’ve found some beautiful outfits to wear, and the prices are so reasonable you can even afford some accessories to go with what you buy. But here’s the sticking point – how can you possibly wear something worn by someone else – no matter if they’ve only […]
I have a confession to make – I’m one of those cowardly people who’s scared to wear glass bangles. I have no idea when the fear started, but it started young. Even those ladies that came door-to-door, with gorgeous arrays of vibrantly coloured bangles arranged around their basket, used to despair of me. I would […]
In 2013 the actress Naomi Watts caused a sensation at the Oscars by wearing an evening dress with an unusual asymmetric neckline. Fashion journalists worldwide were chatting about her outfit – but for ladies from the Indian subcontinent an asymmetric neckline isn’t really that unfamiliar, is it? We may not wear one ourselves, but at […]
In the 1960s, a post-war Britain was celebrating fashion – and monochrome (black & white) was all the rage. With black & white you could be bold, daring, outrageous. The high contrast between the colours meant that patterns were emphasised, lines were cleaner, and tailoring was truly on show. The trend was certainly a sign of the […]
Ask a chap to list types of yellow and he’ll probably be stumped at two or three – maybe bright yellow, dark yellow and orangey-yellow will be offered as suggestions. But most ladies will probably do better – using words such as primrose, straw, lemon, goldfish, melon, honey and even sunny to describe the exact […]
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