Influence of Caste in Clothing Through the Ages
Purushu Arie
by Purushu Arie
2y ago
In March 2022, a scheduled caste man was killed for sporting a moustache. Scheduled caste men getting lynched and murdered for sporting a moustache isn’t any stray incident, but a recurring inhumane crime in Indian society. People belonging to Scheduled castes are assaulted for wearing sunglasses, scalped with a knife for wearing a turban, targeted for wearing “upper-caste” shoes… the list of violent crimes against Dalits for wearing clothing of their choice goes on and on. Historically, caste oppression found an expression through sartorial superiority. The savarna supremacy is threatened whe ..read more
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Costumes and Clothing of Keezhadi / Porunai River (Thamirabarani) Civilisation
Purushu Arie
by Purushu Arie
2y ago
Keezhadi Excavation Site | Image: Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu Madurai, also described as “Athens of South India” due to its ancient cultural heritage, is home to various Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and Megalithic sites. It was previously proposed that urbanisation of ancient Thamizhakam began with 3rd century BCE. In 2019, excavations from Keezhadi pushed the date behind to 600BCE. Carbon dating done on organic material retrieved from archeological excavations in Sivakalai, Thoothukudi district revealed that Thamirabarani civilisation in Tamil Nadu is at least 3,200 year ..read more
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Handlooms, Weavers, and Ethical Fashion
Purushu Arie
by Purushu Arie
2y ago
Handlooms at Banaras, India   Gandhi adopted Khadi as a political iconography in protest against British mill-made cotton. In the 21st century, Gandhi’s anti-Colonial Swadeshi politics are garnished with the ethos of sustainability, dressed with notions of handmade luxury, and marketed as the beacon of hope to uplift the indigenous weavers of India. Khadi’s share in textile production has doubled in the last five years. While the handlooms movement has empowered various elite sections of the Indian textile industry, the weavers, however, continue to remain underpaid labourers often work ..read more
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Lungi vs Vetti – Caste & Class Prejudice in Clothing of Thamizh Cinema
Purushu Arie
by Purushu Arie
3y ago
A look at how caste & class dynamics influenced the portrayal of lungi & vetti in Thamizh cinema. There is a stark contrast in portrayal of the lungi and vetti in Thamizh cinema. The white vetti-sattai has enjoyed the status of respectable traditional attire of Thamizh film protagonists for many decades. Whereas, the Thamizh film industry largely reduced lungi into untidy costumes of goons or for TASMAC dance sequences, thereby creating a stereotypical on-screen image for the garment. However, renowned filmmakers like Pa Ranjith, Vetrimaaran, & Mari Selvaraj have catalysed a paradi ..read more
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Past, Present, & Future of Gender-Fluid Fashion & Clothing | TEDxChennai 2018
Purushu Arie
by Purushu Arie
3y ago
Past, Present, & Future of Gender-Fluid Fashion & Clothing "Products do not have a gender identity, our minds do." - Purushu Arie, TEDxChennai 2018 Purushu Arie founded India's first exclusive ungendered fashion label in 2017. In this talk, Purushu revists fashion history to point out the omnipresent fluidity of gender expression in fashion. The post Past, Present, & Future of Gender-Fluid Fashion & Clothing | TEDxChennai 2018 appeared first on Purushu Arie ..read more
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Genderless, Casteless, & Classless Fashion
Purushu Arie
by Purushu Arie
4y ago
arrow_downward Construct: Technical & Sustainable Upgrades Key silhouettes of Purushu Arie includes pre-tailored saris, vaettis, and lungis with quirky functional upgrades. SHOP Protect: Nature & Knowledge Purushu Arie remodels the inherent gender neutrality of traditional Indian silhouettes in contemporary outlook using the sustainable philosophies of reduce, reuse, and recycle. SHOP Destruct: Socio-Cultural Conditioning Purushu Arie's art envisions an inclusive multi-cultural realm that values the odyssey of individuality achieved by timely destruction and reconstruction of the conve ..read more
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Inclusive Intersectional Fashion
Purushu Arie
by Purushu Arie
4y ago
The term intersectionality was coined by black feminist scholar KIMBERLE WILLIAMS CRENSHAW. INCLUSIVE INTER SECTIONAL FASHION MALINI & VINOTH Photography: A KUMAR INCLUSIVITY Intersectional inclusivity observes intersections of identities in a matrix of privileged & marginalised. Example: Gender, class, caste, age, appearance, sexuality etc combine to create overlapping and interdependent systems of privileges and disadvantages leading to disparities in representation. INDIVIDUALITY A standpoint is an ind ..read more
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Costumes and Clothing of Keezhadi’s Vaigai Valley Civilisation
Purushu Arie
by Purushu Arie
4y ago
Keezhadi Excavation Site | Image: Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu Madurai, also described as “Athens of South India” due to its ancient cultural heritage, is home to various Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and Megalithic sites. It was previously proposed that urbanisation of ancient Thamizhakam began with 3rd century BCE. However, the scientific findings at Keezhadi pushes the date behind to 600BCE. The remains of Vaigai Valley Civilisation debunks the theory that 2nd urbanisation of India started in Gangetic plains and later spread Southwards. Knowledge of costume and clothing ..read more
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Origin of Clothing of Early Hominids: Who Invented & Why Wear?
Purushu Arie
by Purushu Arie
4y ago
“Gender-Neutrality is the default settings involved in the origin of clothing.” – Purushu Arie   Image: ScienceMe   Clothing: Item(s) used to cover/enclose the body.   Clothing: A Survival Reaction to Evolutionary Loss of Fur? Fossil remains of Lucy, an Australopithecus Afarensis from 3.2 million years ago suggests that she could walk upright on two legs and be covered in fur. By around 2 million / 20 lakh years ago, hominids increasingly inhabited grasslands where they started to hunt & eat more meat. Hominids also lost their body hair over this period to sweat more profusely and survive ..read more
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Gandhian Handlooms – Revival of Typewriter Culture in 5G era
Purushu Arie
by Purushu Arie
5y ago
Handlooms at Banaras, India   Gandhi adopted Khadi as a political iconography in protest against British mill-made cotton. In 21st century, Gandhi’s anti-Colonial Swadeshi politics are garnished with ethos of sustainability, dressed with notions of handmade luxury, and marketed as the beacon of hope to uplift the indigenous weavers of India. Khadi’s share in textile production has doubled in last five years. While the handlooms movement has empowered various elite sections of Indian textile industry, the weavers however continue to remain underpaid labours. Can weavers completely depend upon ..read more
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