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Silk Patolu Sari · India, Gujarat, 19th century
The Cleveland Museum of Art · public domain
Not spoken yet.
out of occasion, untimely
Written, not yet said. Every candidate so far was already a shop, a film or an insult.
Wearing the good cloth on an ordinary day. A Patola in a dhoti drape at a gig, Jamdani to a studio visit, Mysore silk under a blazer. A small refusal — the weave was never actually reserved for the wedding, that was the shop's idea.
What it looks like.
- heirloom-grade weave in a non-occasion silhouette
- flats, sneakers or boots
- nothing matched as a set
- hair undone
- day makeup with nine yards of cloth
What it is cut from.
- Patola
- Jamdani
- Chanderi
- Mysore silk
- Baluchari
Not fusion for its own sake: the garment stays intact, only the occasion is broken.
Say it.
Stand a word. Second another. The house says one on a Sunday, at dusk.
- Time, light or stitch.
- Never a place. Never a virtue.
- What the wearer does, not what she is.
- If it is already a shop, it is dead.
The house stands: Aath Pehar
Nothing standing yet. The first word stood here stays first.
Why it is still unsaid
Killed. The dictionary sense is 'unbeseeming, ill-sorted, ill-suited' — an adjective of impropriety, so assigning it would tell a member she dresses improperly. Bewajah also killed: an adverb of negation, and bewajah.in is a Lucknow youth NGO.