Difference Between – Lacha / Lehnga & Sharara / Garara

Dear Friends i wish to share a piece of information that i received from a seeker.

She came to our store inquiring about Sharara. i had no clue. As a good salesman i tried to prove uselessly that a Lehnga was a Sharara, but this could not move her. It was coming on my face that i was lying to her because when you don’t have that information and you are striking in the dark it shows on your face that you yourself are not 100%.

Again, as a good salesman, i told her if she gets what she wanted, she will show it to me. Its a learning from your mistake that my master had conveyed me when i was new in this trade.

She did not get a Chikan Sharara in the market but the information she got was from a store selling ethnic bridal stuff for women. She drew it on paper and taught me the difference. Later we sold her an unstitched Lehnga piece which she could make to a Sharara.

For the information of my followers i searched the internet for the pics, and there are so many.

The sharara and the gharara are lower garments that are like flared pants. It was a fashion of 18th and 19th century in undivided India, particularly Northern India. Some of these dresses can be seen in block buster Bollywood movies of 1960s, 1970s & 1980s that had a North Indian milieu. Now they seem to be part of contemporary wedding ensembles in mainly the Muslim community.

The sharara was the bifurcated version that fell straight and looked liked a skirt

while the gharara was fitted till somewhere above the knee (or has a band sort of thing) and then flared

Now about Lehngas & Lachas

A lehenga is paired with a choli which is supposed to be a small blouse like thing which reveals the stomach & the back,

whereas, a lacha has got a relatively longer blouse which not only covers the entire stomach & back

but is also sometimes a little below the hips, as can be seen in its new avtaar, melange`.

All images have been sourced through the internet