Red hot!
Jasmine Singh
Tabloids splashed pictures of the ravishing bride Geeta Basra, looking like a million dollar in a red and gold lehenga. She had indeed painted the town red with the traditional lehenga in the traditional colour.
Well, could you gauge any style statement here? We doubt that you have missed it, but even if you have, we help you out. It is the return of the traditional red colour for the D-day wedding dress, whether it is a lehenga or something else. After scouting through a spectrum of colours, experimenting vividly with blues, oranges, gold, silver, pinks, the pretty ladies are now settling for the ideally, traditional and the good old colour, red for their wedding dress.
The colour of love finds favour on the final day of marriage, and how…
Turning red
For the last 2-3 years, as trousseaus become highly designer, brides also changed their preference of colours. Some bride actually walked down the aisle in a green and gold lehenga! Designer Misha B Mann calls it ‘more than an each to her own’ phenomenon.
“I laugh about it, but what I could gather was that the bride got bored of the usual pink and red, so she decided to experiment with other colours, picking up blues, orange and yellow for her lehenga. These choices did stand out and looked different, but the real bride is incomplete without a splash of red.”
Even though different colours still find a place on the wedding list, but she is now settling for a bold red for her D day.
Jazz it up
If your colour is red, be assured you don’t have to go through much hassle for jewellery or accessories. “If a bride is wearing red, which is symbolic of love, it doesn’t need much to jazz up the looks. Like for instance what actress Geeta Basra wore for her wedding day. Apart from the lehenga, you could also run your eyes over the jewellery that she was wearing. I feel a bride glows like love under the shade of red,” Akhil philosophises the red bridal lehenga.
With brides choosing red as their D-day colour, fashion designers feel the focus will now shift to styling. Prabh B and Neetu Khanna are designers from Patiala who cater to a huge NRI clientele. “Red was always the bride’s colour, our NRI clients often ask for a heavily-embroidered red lehenga with a light choli, and duppatta that is not very heavy,” says Prab B, who designed a lehenga with a phulkari work. “It was one single piece with a complete red lehenga and a golden, orange and red phulkari patti. We accessorized it golden jewellery, and a phulkari georgette clutch.”
If you are ready to take the vows, getting ready for the holy matrimony and you are doing it all for love, you know how to wear!
Return of love
Fashion pundits call it painting the town red again. Mehak Sandhu, an interior designer from Karnal, is getting married to a boy in Panchkula. “They actually didn’t ask for anything except for that my fiancé requested me to wear a red bridal dress on the day of Anand Karaj,” Mehak shares.
Red has always been the colour of the bridal dress, which is now returning back in full throttle with slight mix and match. For designer Akhil Joshi, wearing red doesn’t mean a bride has to look like an apple. “Like other colours, red can also be experimented with, though in a slightly lesser proportion. You can either jazz it up with gold, or with fabrics and cuts.”
Akhil feels red is such a strong holding colour that you don’t need frills with it so it looks neat.
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