Last month I blogged about two different ways to wear a short kameez featuring my sister and an outfit we reinvented by pairing her short kameez with a new lengha.
This month I finally got the chance to wear my new short kameez outfit re-invention.
The kameez itself was a short fitted top, quite plain aside from some detail around the neck in gold, pink and blue:
It came with plain churidar bottoms in the same shade of blue and the dupatta had a tie-dye effect.
Here's how it looked on a much slimmer version of me, way back in 2008!
Instead though, after talking it through with the team at Vaneeza's Boutique, we decided on having gold lengha made in jamawar fabric. I wasn't completely sure what to expect, but when my lengha arrived, this is how it looked with the kameez:
Here's a close up:
I liked the fabric choice and the fact it was a solid colour rather than layers and netting, but the fit didn't feel 100% right. Sure, I could wear it how it was and it would look fine...but to me, there was something missing.
Then I remembered something I had stashed away in the back of my wardrobe - an underskirt.
This underskirt was made to be worn with my wedding lengha to give it a bit more volume and it definitely made a difference to my wedding outfit. I just about managed to squeeze into the fitted part of the skirt, which goes down to my knees and then it starts to flare out like a ballerina's tutu. In the photo on the right I'd just taken it out of where it was being stored so it looks a bit flat, I made sure to leave it out before wearing it for an event.
So...this week it was my cousin's walima and a perfect opportunity to wear my reinvented short kameez and lengha!
Here's how it looked with the underskirt:
I liked that overall the full outfit wasn't really heavy, but the added volume still made a big impact at the walima and wasn't too high maintenance. I felt very "swooshy" in it, in a good way.
I did feel a bit restricted sitting in the car though! Here's a few more photos from at the venue including how it looks sitting down, and you can see the panels of the lengha a bit more:
Here's a "before" and "after" pic - what a difference!
What do you think? I'm so glad I had the underskirt to add some volume! Gold is such a classic colour, I could probably pair this lengha with a few other tops in my wardrobe.
This month I finally got the chance to wear my new short kameez outfit re-invention.
The kameez itself was a short fitted top, quite plain aside from some detail around the neck in gold, pink and blue:
It came with plain churidar bottoms in the same shade of blue and the dupatta had a tie-dye effect.
Here's how it looked on a much slimmer version of me, way back in 2008!
I decided on a having a lengha made to go with this, and was initially inspired by the tie-dye theme of the dupatta and was thinking of having something a bit sheer with layers (a bit like my niece's lengha from Rajas and Ranis) or the below outfit from Sonas Couture:
Here's a close up:
I liked the fabric choice and the fact it was a solid colour rather than layers and netting, but the fit didn't feel 100% right. Sure, I could wear it how it was and it would look fine...but to me, there was something missing.
Then I remembered something I had stashed away in the back of my wardrobe - an underskirt.
This underskirt was made to be worn with my wedding lengha to give it a bit more volume and it definitely made a difference to my wedding outfit. I just about managed to squeeze into the fitted part of the skirt, which goes down to my knees and then it starts to flare out like a ballerina's tutu. In the photo on the right I'd just taken it out of where it was being stored so it looks a bit flat, I made sure to leave it out before wearing it for an event.
So...this week it was my cousin's walima and a perfect opportunity to wear my reinvented short kameez and lengha!
Here's how it looked with the underskirt:
I liked that overall the full outfit wasn't really heavy, but the added volume still made a big impact at the walima and wasn't too high maintenance. I felt very "swooshy" in it, in a good way.
I did feel a bit restricted sitting in the car though! Here's a few more photos from at the venue including how it looks sitting down, and you can see the panels of the lengha a bit more:
Here's a "before" and "after" pic - what a difference!
What do you think? I'm so glad I had the underskirt to add some volume! Gold is such a classic colour, I could probably pair this lengha with a few other tops in my wardrobe.
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