Mostly wide border cotton base saree is used to drape saree in Bengali style. There are less and wide pleats in this style. For wearing a saree get a matching petticoat and blouse. First wear petticoat and blouse. Here are the further instructions of draping saree in Bengali style.
- Hold upper edge of the saree from inner plain end and wrap around yourself in anticlockwise direction. Tuck the top border of the saree in to the petticoat in such a way so that the Saree may fall up to the floor level.
- Make two wide pleats (keep wrapping up to your left thigh then reverse back from inner side up to your right thigh then repeat this for 2nd pleat).
- Hold the pleats together and arrange the pleats so that the bottom of edge of the saree should touch the floor level and tuck the pleats into petticoat at the center of the navel keeping face of the pleat left.
- Now take the top border of the saree and keep it on your left shoulder and make pleats up to the bottom border then pinup the pleats with your blouse.
- Now pull the saree in front of you between your right hand and body. Pull the saree until there is enough length to wrap around to your mid back and pined up there.
- Now take the top border of pallu, tie something heavy in the upper corner of the pallu and throw it to back side and allow it to fall down through your right or left shoulder. If you need you can pined up the pallu with blouse.
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