[Steppes] Bare tummies and religion

[Bersaba Thornehauke]

The "crop top" is called a choli. :)  Folkwear has a really good multisized pattern for them (crop top version).

Bersaba



> Just a note of trivia for other trivia-o-philes...
> I spoke with a Pakistani woman yesterday. She told me that only Hindu women
> actually bare their tummies with sari croptops (Gerita? Toryn? the real
> name, please?) . Muslim women have longer tops, which hide the tummmy, so
> she said. She is Muslim and would never wear a bared tummy type sari.
>
> She also said that in the Richardson area there are lots of sari shops off
> 75. Sari tops are very form-fitting, and that there are seamstresses who
> will, for about $20, make one to fit the woman's body exactly. (There are no
> patterns available, so you can't make one for yourself as well as they.)

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