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Zaara's zardozi

Ethnic couture from Zaara's world is the hottest style statement

LADIES IT'S Zinta again! The original fashion-femme of film land, in her newest avatar as Veer's Zaara, presents the latest new `old' look. This time the take is traditional - for all you connoisseurs of old-worldliness. So hurry and take out that fine silk embroidered chiffon dupatta, that gota-kinari odhni, that Zardozi embellished kurta and that ornamented sari blouse that has been so carefully wrapped by you in fine mulmul and left to languish in your wedding chest. Bring them all out and wear them with an old-fashioned assurance, and make a star-worthy style statement.

Don't possess any of the above? Well, go out and get one then! Wear the chiffon embroidered dupatta with a fitted kurta with delicate decorations at the neckline and sleeve seams, and pair it with a liquid, flowing salwaar, also ornamented with embroidered bootis. Leave your hair loose, dress your hands and feet with delicate henna patterns and to get that spring in your step, slip into a pair of beaded mojris. Then let lots of silver bangles jangle from your wrists unapologetically.

And that odhni? Get one in intense jewel-like colours, trim it's edges with ostentatious gota work and beads, and drape it over your head and around your shoulders in carelessly-constructed-chic. Wear it with a well-cut pathani for a purist look, and if you are the experimenter - with a just-below-the-hip length plain silk shirt in candy colours, set off smartly with a cigarette pant in a shade lighter.

So, come into Zaara's world of understated splendour and ornamentation, of ethnic couture - Pakistani style.

ARCHANA NANDAL
(Ms. Nandal is an alumnus of the National Institute of Fashion Techno

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