A History of Agriculture in India v2.c59.s6.2

v2.c59.s6.2

Woman’s garments were of two varieties. One consisted of a long chadar or fine sheet of muslin like the modern sari, and a bodice with short sleeves, going down the back to the waist, with an angiya or brassière of a dark colour. The other variety, which was more popular in the doab, consisted of a lahanga or a long and very loose skirt, a chola and an angiya with a dopatta or a long scarf which was used to cover the head. Ladies of Gujarat wore leather shoes with gold trimmings. For toilet women used antimony for the eyes, vermilion for marking the parting of the hair, musk for the breast, and a black powder for the eye-brows; henna (Lawsonia inermis) was used for dyeing hands and feet in summer.