After a long hiatus, what better way to come back to the blog than to flaunt my own self?
A couple of my colleagues and myself decided to wear sarees straight for a week to work. The decision was a savage to my routine but yeah, I was motivated enough to do it. All the beautiful sarees I collected over years have been hibernating blissfully in my cupboard and I felt it’s time to flaunt them.
Getting into the details, I have never been a regular saree person to work. Saree has been my choice for religious/family occasions and nothing more than that. This of course did not stop me from buying them, I am a bit of a hoarder when it comes to this and constantly amused by different fabrics and their niche.
Let me show you what I wore for 5 days:
Day 1, Monday:
Today being the Day 1 of the pact, I was enthusiastic. I planned what I wanted to wear well in advance and kept things ready for it.
What did I wear: A mul cotton saree with a contrast Ikkat blouse and finished with Tribal jewellery.
Experience: I was proud of myself to having chosen this saree as it was a breeze to manage. It was a very light weight, easily manageable saree.
Now, you think it was a great joyful experience. Read between the lines, the blouse had a real big neck, and God knows why I chose to wear a brassiere with thick straps!! Every time, you see me, I was only dilly-dallying to adjust it right. I was sure some of my colleagues must have assumed I am following a new stretching routine!!! After a point of time, I realized I could not help much but to ignore it.
If I ignore my dwelling around with my blouse, I managed to have a great Day 1.

Day 2, Tuesday:
The excitement continued. I woke up early to wrap up my morning cooking routine a little faster so that I can spend more time in the saree styling.
What did I wear: A self-designed Mangalgiri cotton saree with a pochampally blouse and beaded chain handmade by me.
Experience: The saree’s bright colors were appreciated by almost everyone and it was easy to manage too.
Now, don’t assume that was an easy breezy day. Today, from nowhere, I decided wear sandals which were lying abandoned in my shoe rack for longest time I ever knew. Why? Only to realize that they would get worn out as soon as I reach my office. This time, I am making it easier, you do not have to read between the lines, I will put it straight, I was bare footed!!! Stranded clue less for sometime, one of my pretty colleagues who was also supposed to be in pact with us, but ditched us, found a quick help with feviquick. That was the moment when I really wanted to extend my heartfelt thanks to the guys who invented feviquick.

Day3, Wednesday:
Though it was getting little hectic to push myself with earlier routines, I was motivated to do it.
What did I wear: Kora cotton saree with a crocia blouse and a bun hair do.
Experience: It was an awesome day today, I almost got into the groove of wearing the saree perfectly without loose pieces of saree hanging around and without constantly adjusting the saree.

Day 4, Thursday:
By Day 4, I felt exhausted planning the saree schedule and was already waiting to finish it. All these days, I meticulously planned what I wanted to wear and so there was no pandemonium created. However, today, I missed out on in-skirt. Yeah, yeah a saree needs many accompaniments; you have to plan them too. So, in this attempt I changed twice and finally ended up with raw silk saree and a shirt blouse.
What did I wear: Raw silk saree with a shirt blouse and pure silver jumkas.
Experience: Today, saree was a total mess for me. I could not manage to drape it properly. By some means, I wrapped around the saree and reached the office (Read wrapped not draped). Thankfully, my most favorite colleague, rather a close friend of mine Preethi, helped me to get it alright and made it look more than a wrap around.

Day 5, Friday:
Today was the last day of the pact and I was so excited that I did it.
What did I wear: Mangalgiri cotton with floral print blouse and German silver jewellery.
Finally, the last day was a breeze without any mishaps.

What did I Learn?
For regular saree stylists, this might sound insane to just do the saree for a week and blog about it too. But for novice like me and two other colleagues for mine, who were part of it for the complete week, it was a great experience.
- Effort – I have always had issues getting up early, push myself to wear a saree. But, this week brought the best out of me. I am now confident, I can do this more often.
- Patience – This exercise pushed my patience levels up a notch. I had to try, retry, retry to do the saree to my known perfection.
- Personality – I realized I am not an impromptu personality, when I had issues with my jewellery or with my blouse, I could no act immediately.
- Responsibility – This idea was conceptualized by me and a colleague of mine. I took the responsibility of finishing the pact as it was conceptualized by us.
- Creativity – Though I indulge myself in being creative on and off, I tried my best to be creative with the sarees and hair dos, which was applauded.
- Finally, I learnt to pee without hassles in a saree!!!
- Also, I realized I can’t pose without bending my neck. I am sure now you want to go back and check the photos.
Would like to thank Kavitha and Sandhya who did the pact for a week and other colleagues who pitched in for a day or two. Hopefully, we want to repeat in near future as we all pledged to make a conscious attempt to bring back the saree to work.
Cheers to the beautiful saree!!!!

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