So my mom brought my mehndi gharara back from pakistan…and the gharara is beautiful but the shirt is sooo short! gharara shirts are supposed to be long, like 2 inches above your patti on your gharara, but mine is like soo short it looks like a tshirt, i tried it on with both and it looks soo weird!! what can I do? any suggestions…I can’t remake it because i can’t obviously go all the way back to pakistan…i hate this!
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the shirtsz dont necessarily have to be long please check this out…
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/wedding/387633-my-moms-gharara-b4-1976-n-after-2009-a.html
this is from my rukhsati
if ur shirt is shorter than this then maybe you should worry
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you can play around with your dupatta and try wearing it in different ways. you can drape it like one would for a sari dress or khara dupatta, so that the front will be covered. good luck!
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u can attach some banarsi patti or any other stuff just to make the shirt longer, make the combination or else wear your dopatta in a diff way, best of luck
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^ yup! do what she just said. Just be careful u dont select something totally off or it wud ruin the whole look of your dress. Goodluck!
you can play around with your dupatta and try wearing it in different ways. you can drape it like one would for a sari dress or khara dupatta, so that the front will be covered. good luck!
i recommend this
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Post a pic so that we can see what it looks like. It will be easier to make suggestions.
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How much work is on the kameez? you could get a longer, plainer versionmade yourself, and drape the dupatta around it?
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hey you guys thanks so much... thanks for showing me how your gharara that you wore had a short shirt...i remember seeing the picture but now I noticed that the shirt was indeed short with the gharara and it made me feel a bit better.
I guess I just was expecting and imagining the shirt long (like i told the damn tailor!) and when it came out short i was disappointed....I tried it on, and honestly short shirts make you look shorter and a bit heavier than you are. The longer the shirt, the taller, and slimmer you look.
I will try the draping the dupatta thing...and try to get some pics if I can :)
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You could also get 1-2 layers sewn and attached to the kameez in order to lengthen it - so that it looks intentional. you could also make a different color (like the color of the work or if you outfit has another color in it).
m gonna tell u a secret... look at my pics again...
when i had the kaam done on the gharaara somehow the boutique messed up and made the gharaara so short that when i tried it on at home it was not touching the bottom in fact it was 3 inches up from the bottom of the floor and it looked ugly...cuz a gharaara and lehnga must be long enough to touch the floor...so guess what i did...i took my gharaara to a designer i knew and had her add purple piece and a skin colour piece to the legs of the gharaara...
you may do something similar to ur shirt
also i disagree with u ...a short shirt makes ur legs look long and therefore makes u tall....a really long shirt will have a similar effect...it is the medium length shirts that may make u look short
anyways i hope you are not so stressed anymore /hugs
hey you guys thanks so much... thanks for showing me how your gharara that you wore had a short shirt...i remember seeing the picture but now I noticed that the shirt was indeed short with the gharara and it made me feel a bit better.
I guess I just was expecting and imagining the shirt long (like i told the damn tailor!) and when it came out short i was disappointed....I tried it on, and honestly short shirts make you look shorter and a bit heavier than you are. The longer the shirt, the taller, and slimmer you look.
I will try the draping the dupatta thing...and try to get some pics if I can :)
check out this thread on khara dupattas:
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/wedding/241742-hyderabadi-khara-dupatta.html
also here is a sari dress. notice how she’s tucked in the dupatta on her left hip, brought the fabric around, and pleated it to neatly go over her left shoulder.
i’ve also seen brides pin one corner of the dupatta to their front left shoulder and drape it across the front to the right shoulder. look at the lady on the right of ash.
these pics. might help give you more ideas.
hope that helps!
If the shirt really is too short (gharara shirts need to hit at least at mid-thigh), I would get some plain silk in a color that matches the outfit and go to a tailor here and have them make you a plain qameez. A qameez isn't a particularly complicated garment, I'm sure if you provide a sample they should be able to copy it.
I think that will probably look better than awkwardly stitching on panels of fabric (unless you find fabric that really goes well with the outfit).