The retro style

That the way in which award winning costume designer Bhanu Athaiya draped Mumtaz in the iconic orange sari for the movie Brahmachari.It the opposite of a basic sari, where first you drape the sari and then form the stomach pleats.For the retro style, you tuck in the stomach pleats first and then drape the sari on top of them, keeping the pallu extremely narrow.That a big trend these days, says expert draper Kalpana Shah.