Wondering how to accessorize a saree? What makes the saree special is its flowy drape, ethnic appeal, traditional touch, and innovative style of wrapping it around. Well, though an Indian saree is enough to steal hearts and is the most rocking garment by its own nature; you can enhance the look of your traditional or designer saree in your quirky way. If you don’t know how to style or upgrade your saree look with various accessories, here we go rounding off a few tips and tricks.
Opt For Traditional Statement Earrings
Earrings without a question are a must-have elegant accessory to make your saree look more creative, cultural, and appealing. In fact, accessories trends might come and go but earrings are evergreen and are there to stay forever. So, the thing that is eternally thriving for generations must see the light of day in the trendiest avatar. You can put together your saree look with trendy hoops, golden jhumkas, pearl studs, stone water-drop, or needle danglers. Meenakari, Kundan, silver, gold and diamond are also fail-safe accessories to enhance your ethnic saree wardrobe. Choose your earrings as per the event and occasion.
Choose Matching Statement Necklaces
Style and trends might be rapidly changing but necklaces have always been uplifting an Indian women’s saree appearance for weddings and festivals. With minimal effort, the right choice of necklace can transform your look from basic to breakthrough. Wedding, cocktail, sangeet, mehendi, haldi or a family pooja; an Indian lady never leaves behind her eternal romance with necklaces. Right from heavy kundan haar to choker and dainty chains; women have been using various versions of neck pieces with their saree to get fully dressed. If it’s a heavy wedding saree you can go for an elegant and statement diamond necklace or gold necklace and earring set. For light events and occasions, you can opt for metal-based trendy neck chains or necklaces to match your designer sarees.
Find The Perfect Statement Nose Ring
Nose rings are the ultimate showstoppers and the perfect addition to accentuate a woman’s saree look. Pearl, crystal, stone, gold, and diamond nose ring picks are iconic for reasons known to everyone. Dramatic, colorful, rich, ethnic, boho and classic are a few options in nose rings that can offer you the desired look to go with your saree. Not accessorizing a festive or wedding saree with a nose ring would be like a cake without the icing. Pure silver, oxidized silver, Marathi nath, chain nath, pearl drop and water drop nose rings and nose pins are a few traditional, trendy, and exotic options for your saree accessory.
Add Statement Brooches To Your Look
Not for holding the pleats and pallu alone, but brooches can add an aesthetic appeal and royal touch to your saree avatar. Needless to say, your struggle is just half with the brooch attached to the pallu but a stunning brooch in fancy and heavy designs can also make your fashion sense look effective and efficient. A stone, crystal, pearl, and floral shaped brooch can be a woman’s perfect companion to give an edge to the saree. Choose a clutch based on the colour, design and print of the saree for not only pinning up but adding glamour and grace to your saree look. Gold, alloy, diamond, peacock motif, floral and feather stone stud brooches look elegant and attractive and can be used at the shoulder, at the back pallu or the front near your chest.
Match Handbags, Statement Clutches, and Pouches/Potli Bags
Well, carrying the world around with you should be in the most stylish way. Isn’t it? The stylish fashion essential comes in various forms, sizes and shapes like tote bags, fancy embellished purses, box clutches, slings, pouches and potlis. The practical demand for bags and hardly any woman saying that she has enough calls for some fashionable handbags to go with their party, designer, festive and wedding sarees. Super-chic shoulder bags, attractive gold and zari work potlis, superior quality high-end bags, Rajasthani or Gujarati mirror work bags, quilted totes, cool and classy hand purses are a few options for that versatile styling with the saree.
Replace Your Basic Blouse With Jacket Blouses
If you are bored of wearing jewellery to make your saree look more ornate or embellished, you can effortlessly amp it up with a matching or contrast colored jacket blouse. Jacket blouses can be simple, subtle, shiny, embroidered or embellished to make a statement. Blouses have always been a secret to ace a simple saree in the most gorgeous way. You can pull off a modern look by ditching the usual blouse and adding a designer long or short jacket blouse to your saree closet. No wonder, a jacket blouse will play a huge role in your modish dressing. Doesn’t the jacket blouse sound like plenty of inspiration to elevate your basic saree look?
Find an Elaborate Hair Accessory
Any Indian hairstyle with a saree is incomplete without a matching or right hair accessory. Bun, braid, waterfall pleats or a careless hairdo; the accessories for hair play a key role in making you look more ethnic, elegant and decorative. The ornaments that you can try out with a saree hairdo are double, three-layered or multi-layered Jhumki hair chain, silver or gold-plated hair clips, the real or artificial gajra, stone hair pins, matha patti, the antique or jewelled maang tikka and light-weighted floral jewelry. Tiaras also make you look like a queen if you are wearing a pre-drape saree or saree gown for a wedding event.
Wear Flowers in Your Hair
Saree and makeup go hand in hand and real flowers are something that can drastically change the entire saree look. Real and a very important accessory- flowers on your hair is an adornment that is an evergreen fashion statement. To keep up with the flower hairdo trend, you can use an oversized single flower on the bun, super-stylish imported flower gajra encircling the hair bun, roses and orchids strung together to cascade on your loose locks behind or the jasmine buds to adorn your reception, mehendi or sangeet hairstyle.
Add a Bindi
Bindi on the forehead is not just a fashion statement but the pride of every Indian woman. Sporting a pretty bindi, an Indian woman reflects the sign of tradition and religion. Though the cultural practice has a science behind it and is a part of solah shringar, bindi can also make a meaningful fashion statement. While a red bindi can be a cosmetic mark, a pretty and loud stone bindi can make a classy and royal statement. Tribal, Maharashtrian, vertical, snake style, layered, crystal, stone and other designer bindis can add a touch of glamour to your ethnic, designer and fancy sarees. Now that you know various shapes and styles of bindis, you can find out which one suits you the best.
Wrap a Shawl or Cardigan
A shawl or a cardigan can push the standards of a saree even higher. The fashion benefits of wrapping a shawl or carrying a cardigan over a saree has been known since time immemorial. The saree, especially during winter parties can get a modified look and touch of class by draping or just throwing a shawl over your right or both shoulders. You can enjoy the festivities, wedding ceremony and events in a more elegant and traditional way with a cardigan-saree combo. Cardigans are stylish yet practical winter saree style options. V-neck, open, self-knit texture, and cable designs cardigans can amp up your saree fashion game. Similarly, shawls draped as pallu are tried-and-true options for adorning and enhancing your saree look.
Get the Perfect Footwear
There is no dearth of women’s luxury footwear but the ones to be incorporated for a saree should really look jaw-dropping. Pumps, stilettos, ballerinas, high-heels, strappy sandals and even wedges can be added to your saree footwear closet. Top-notch material, shiny look, construction and detailing and high-end appeal can compel you to choose the best footwear for your saree. Above all, one must never sacrifice the ease factor and can go for relaxed and comfortable alternatives that also come in pretty, bold and stunning patterns. Silver, golden and metallic look footwear can be a few drop-dead gorgeous pairs to go with your saree.
Throw in a Belt
Belts have their own charm that makes your saree look just grab the eyeballs. Using belts with sarees these days is like travelling back in time. An ethnic or designer saree can be a chic team together to amp up your look. Ruffle saree, jacket saree, cape saree and even gown and dhoti saree with a broad stone or embellished belt can look functional as well as fashionable. Even leather belts, pearl belts, fabric and floral belts are a cool trend this season. A belt adds grace and an edge to a saree and makes it look versatile and sassy. A corset belt can also accentuate your saree and make it look chic and brighter. Above all, the belt accentuates a printed or plain saree and a curve of a woman.
There are myriad innovative ways to style a saree. Some of them as discussed are brooch, belts, jackets, hair accessories and more. You may explore and find the best accessory to suit your saree needs. You can add chunky bangles, big earrings, and nice bags and potlis to your ethnic diva look in a saree. Saree is a complete show stealer with apt jewels, makeup, and accessories. You can style your solid-colored sarees, printed sarees, designer sarees, Indo-western sarees, saree gowns and lehenga sarees for weddings and Indian festivals in a plethora of ways. To rock your saree look you can opt for trendy and designer sarees from KALKI fashion and experiment with your choice of accessories.
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