6 Stylish Saree Pallu Draping Styles Which You Must Try!

Sarees are the most lovable attire for every age group women. There is a lot of grace and elegance attached in draping a saree which gives every women the kind of look they always wanted to flaunt. In saree, pallu plays a very dominant look. A pallu of the saree breaks the monotony of the fabric and give it spark. Seldom, women ignore their pallu style however, pallu can actually make or break your entire look. In fact, making changes in your pallu design and saree draping, you can create a illusion of slimness or a lit weight in the area of your body concerns.

Let us discuss some pallu draping style of sarees that you love:

1. Classic pleats

If you have bought art silk sarees online for your friends wedding or any other functions, you can easily adorn the classic pleats. It is smart,versatile and easy to carry a sarees which are embellished or heavy. All the cloth of the pallu is neatly pleated and pinned on the left shoulder.

2. Tied loosely at waist

You can have a new take on your pallu style in this way. After forming pleats of the skirt area, wrap the saree around the hip but leave the drape loose around the waist. Then make broad pleats and make it pinned on the shoulder. This way you can give your traditional saree, a new twist. This style is best for ladies with heavier hips. You can easily wear such kind of pallu style in heavy sarees.

3. Border width pleats

When you buy wedding sarees online, your focus is always on the beautiful border and the fabric of the saree. However, when you drape the saree, the border goes somewhere unnoticed.

If you have got an amazing border in your saree, them try this pallu style.

Keep the border width as the base of your pleats and then pleat the pallu and pin it on the shoulder. Sarees like kanjeevaram or broad border silk sarees can be easily worn in this style.

4. Drape around neck

A narrowly pleated saree pallu can be worn around the neck like stole. This pallu style is chic, you can enhance its appeal by combining it with statement brooch. In winters you will have to wear jackets or coats over your saree,in this case draping pallu like stole is an intelligent way of looking glamours.

5. Passed through blouse

At times a simple tweak in your style can create a great change in your look and feel. This kind of pallu drapes give you the comfort of movement. This style of pallu drape is possible with specially designed blouse which has loop or pocket that allow neatly pleated pallu to pass though.

6. Gujrati seedha pallu

This kind of pallu draping has a very feministic charm in itself. This kind of pallu draping looks similar to draping of lehenga choli which is pinned in right shoulder. Instead of traditional pallu style where the pallu is loose at the back end, here the loose area comes in front covering the bosom area. This one is easy to carry and can have many variations.

These were some pallu draping style which you can use to look glamorous yet maintaining that traditional look with saree.

Richa Medhi is an expert in Indian culture and its various traditions.She is working as a fashion designer with Bigbindi.