Psychosocial acceptance by women for dresses of classical period of India in modern scenario

Pages 341-342
O. P. Sharma, Ritu Gupta and Rahul Swami (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur)

In the present day world of wild flowery bush-shirts, it will be interesting to know that this wear of American origin has something in common with ancient apparel of India. Whereas in one period, leaves and grasses were matted and use to cover the body and in the other designs of leaves and grasses have come to be imprinted on cloth used in making a dress . From leaf and grass man progressed to bark and from that on two cloth. In the age of Valmiki all the three forms of the dress were in vogue. The flourishing textile industry of the country during the Ramayana period accounted for the wide variety of clothes.