Considering the vast amount of work Rabindranath Tagore had done, we simply can not make a final remark on his fashion or style ideas or philosophy. Yet he wrote in ‘Shesh-er Kobita’, “Fashion is a mask, and style is the visage behind.”
Although the fashion and style choices of Tagore’s house was ahead of the time. And it also brought another trend to the educated Bengali society. Interestingly the style of those days was so versatile that the fashion world is still in the same state somewhere as the place of Tagore. And many say that this will remain in the future too.
History says Rabindranath’s elder brother Satyandranath’s wife Jnanadanandini Devi, first started wearing sarees in Bombay style. She spent much of her time with her husband in Bombay (now Mumbai). So, she was attracted to the style of wearing sarees and the Gujarati, Persian women’s saree.
She is the first to import those sarees in Bengal. This style quickly became very popular among the educated, advanced Brahma community women, including the women of the Tagore house. This is how the practice of wearing sarees began in the general Bengali society. And today, that style is established.
Not only in the case of clothing but also other decorations or fashion accessories, the idea of the Tagore Bari was inexhaustible and impossibly modern. We now plant gardens in hair, we have thorns, have a lot of holes, even jewelry, but this is the style of the Tagore house in those days. And so much so that the practice continues.
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