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No mean feat carrying off a dhoti

Wearing dhoti isn't something you can learn with some sleight of hand

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Kishore Singh
Women say that draping a saree is easy, so wearing a dhoti should be a breeze, right? A few years ago, having received some trendy lungis from an artist in Colombo, I had thought to wear them to parties in the unisex fashion that young fashionistas carry off so effortlessly. Unfortunately, it didn’t go down well. First, of course, was the trouble with the tying of the lungi itself. How do you secure it sans pins, zips or buttons? Google proved of little help because every time I breathed in, it would collapse around the ankles. But a lot of lessons and some practice
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