Fashion Trends In India,,,,

Fashion is a huge industry in India. With globalisation Indian Fashion has got a wider platform to display their talents and introduce the 'Sari' to the world. India was always known as a country of jungles, snakes and poverty. But this has changed over the last decade. One of the reasons of India competing in the race among the leading countries of the world is because of its sudden burst of fashion exposure - both within and beyond the country.

India is a diverse nation and does not have one particular style to call its own. However, fashion in India placed itself on the map creating its own unique identity of FUSION - the beautiful blend and combination od various dressing styles in the country. Right from the traditional salwar kameez or sarees to churidars, kurtis, the semi formal way of wearing it over trousers or jeans, capris and the higly elegant and contemporary style of draping sarees, from simply cotton blouses to halter-neck, puffed sleeves, deep necks, and lycra-fitted blouses. Apart from regional attires, the Bollywood element also holds a domineering part in Indian Fashion style.

Bollywood Fashion

As Bollywood fashion goes, so goes South Asian fashion. For the past decade, the designers of the largest film industry in the world have been shaping the fashion of Indian and Pakistani clothing. Recently, Bollywood fashion is transcending and making a major impact on Western style as well. Things weren’t always this way. Let’s learn more about the cultural phenomenon that is known as Bollywood.

Until the late 1980s, Hindi films demonstrated limited sense of style. Clothing was either everyman clothing or way over the top garish. Bollywood designers came to the limelight ever since Manish Malhotra did those catchy numbers for Urmila Matondkar in Rangeela. It was all upwards from there. Bollywood fashion became a force to be reckoned with. When Sushmita Sen appeared in flowing saris in a recent hit, this traditional dress got a big boost into urban style. Shamita Shetty made the sharara a hit with aptly titled “Sharara Sharara”. Finally, Priyanka Chopra made the red dupatta (stole) synonymous with Bollywood fashion.

Hindi films may have inspired Indian style over the last two decades, but the fascinating phenomenon is the transcendence of Bollywood fashion to the West. The recent tunic top craze is one example. Everyone from tween to grandmother is dying to get one. The recent bohemian or ethnic clothing wave is driven by Indian, and hence Bollywood fashion. Most of all, there seems to be no end in sight. TIME, MSN, and even Bella Online are unified in their praise of the hot ethnic trend. The comfort, elegance, and especially the versatility of Indian clothing are not lost to the western public. For instance, various kurtas (tunic tops) can be worn to the beach, a tea party, the mall, or even a grand formal!

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Late 2000s

Women's fashion in the late 2000s became increasingly feminine, and dresses and skirts enjoyed ever increasing popularity. The sophisticated urban look became popular among professional men, and featured striped dress shirts, black dress pants, and black dress shoes. There was a move away from dark denim towards a greater variety of denim colours and washes. Narrower, more fitted clothing became popular with both sexes, but especially among women.

The Sophisticated Urban Look became popular among many urban professional men beginning in 2004. The look featured pinstriped dress shirts, black dress pants, and black dress shoes. There was a general shift in popularity away from Khakis and towards black dress pants. Black suits became increasingly popular. Charcoal grey pinstripe suits also enjoyed popularity. There was a move away from 'casual Fridays' in some professional offices and towards 'formal Fridays,' though casual Fridays still remained the norm in some professional business environments.

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In hip hop, the throwback jersey and baggy pants (popular in the '90s to early 2005) look was replaced with the more "grown man" look which was highly popularized by Kanye West around the fall of 2005.

Leggings returned as a women's fashion item in 2004. Leggings rose in popularity in 2007 after introduction by brands such as American Apparel. Initially available mostly in black and grey, leggings gradually became available again in a wide variety of colors. These were often worn with long, fitted tunic tops, or baby-doll dresses and shirts with empire waists. As in the 1980s, they were sometimes paired with mini skirts. Sometimes also worn with shorts dress type or athletic type.

Opaque tights footed or footless also became common legwear from 2005 through now. Worn mostly with skirts and dresses and flats or sometimes canvas sneakers. Also worn sometimes with shorts or sometimes under capris.

Layered tees, shirts, polos and blouses have become popular again and still are today.

Shortalls and skirtalls are popular again since 2007.

During most of the early and mid 2000s the smart casual style made it unfashionable to wear formal clothing except in businesses and churches or at special events.^[6] This changed in the autumn of 2006, when the power suit received worldwide popularity amongst young men for its structured design. Men's suits of this era moved about the late 1990s style of bulky double-breasted jackets and towards single-breasted tailored jackets with thinner lapels, a higher gorge and low two-button stance.^[7]

Skirts and dresses became especially popular in Women's fashion during the second half of the decade. Boho-chic continued to be a significant source of inspiration, although non-boho influenced styles were also popular. Teenaged girls wore both fitted denim mini-skirts and ruffled skirts, the latter being worn by all the main characters in the 2004 movie Mean Girls. Women's skirts were predominantly mid-length, both straight and a-line, ruffled and non-ruffled. Dresses were popular in both straight and a-line cuts. Thick straps and ruffles were popular with a-line dresses, and spaghetti straps were popular with more form fitting dresses. Many skirts and dreses had uneven hemlines.

European teenage girl wearing skinny jeans and thin-strapped top, both popular fashions in 2008.

Sagging, popularised by rappers and popular for the majority of both the 1990s and 2000s, lost its appeal around 2006 as expensive, close-fitting designer jeans rose in popularity, particularly amongst men. Baggy and loose styles of the late '90s and early '00s gave way to bootcut and straight leg jeans popularized by 7 for all Mankind, True Religion, Rock & Republic and Diesel S.p.A..^[8]

Men and women began to wear skinny-fit lowrise jeans that became even more popular later in the decade.^[9] Hip-hugging, denim mini-skirts were also worn. Teenage and preteen girls also wear tank tops or T-shirts tucked into high-waisted, flowy skirts since 2008.

The scene look also was a popular look in the late 2000s scene kids wore tight pants with lots of; bracelets, eyeliner, clips, and colors. Like the goth or emo look scene kids also wore alot of black or grey, but around 2008 and beyond, scene kids had started to become more '80s and raver influenced, and that included bright colors.

In the mid-2000s, women's boots and shoes had extremely pointed toes

By 2005, stiletto-heeled shoes with extreme pointed toes became the dominant trend in women's footwear. In 2007, ballet flats appeared yet again, and the toes of many women's shoes became rounded, rivaling but not entirely replacing the pointed-toed stiletto-heeled shoe.^[10] Boots came in a variety of styles, some with the heels high, heavy and geometric in shape. By 2009, many designers had also brought back the high heel coupled with platform sole, last seen as recently as the end of the 1990s, and, as with the combination of pointed toe and stiletto heel, never far from popularity somewhere in the spectrum of fashion. The newer platform sole is often referred to as "concealed" when it is covered with the same piece of material as the upper, in the manner popularised by Vivienne Westwood.

Designer glasses (often with thick rims) as worn by Anastacia, sunglasses such as Ray Ban Wayfarers, aviators, and rim-less glasses became widely available and extremely popular as geek chic went mainstream. This trend started about 2004 and has continued into the late 2000s for both males and females.^[11]

Polo tops, and striped dress shirts were the norm amongst young males, especially pink polo tops popularized by rapper Cam'ron. This trend continued into the late 2000s. Wearing Hoodies, and general T-shirts and sweaters in winter season had replaced baggy long winter coats that were popular in the 1990s.

Although Waltish, Military attire became popular among indie fans. Men originally wore surplus dress jackets which were later produced by companies for the civilian market^[12] while women wore versions with more feminine lace or beading on it.

Camouflage patterns, bandanas or shemaghs are frequently worn as scarves by young people in winter. Recently this trend has spread to the hip-hop subculture where it is worn by pop rappers such as Chris Brown, Lil Wayne and Kanye West.^[13]. Camouflage had become popular in the redneck subculture as well in the mid and late 2000s.

Boat shoes such as Sperry became more popular towards the late 2000s, they were typically worn with skinny jeans and without socks. Or with shorts or capris. Shoes and boots with long, extremely pointed toes were worn by both men and women in the late-2000s, predominantly in 2008/2009.^[14]

Also from the 2006 through today Uggs became popular especially with females. Usually worn with jeans tucked in boots or leggings tucked in boots with a skirt or pair of short or short dress over the leggings. Also seen worn with shorts. Uggs come in short and tall varieties.

From 2006 through today canvas sneakers have become very in. Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars in many colors especially black are popular. And Keds are popular especially the black champion canvas and white champion canvas styles.

Flats and mary janes became popular as an alternative to heels. Worn with everything from dresses and skirts to capris, skinny jeans, shorts, and with skirt and dresses with leggings underneath.

Headbands have seen a resurgence in the late 2000s through today. They come in many different styles including sports styles worn by softball players especially as well as other athletes. They are worn with casual or formal wear.

In 2005, other styles that appeared on the scene were Capri pants or pinocchietti as they were called in Italy, where they were popular. These usually stopped at just below the knee, and could be worn casually with sandals, dressed up with high heels, or worn with boots in winter.^[15]

Bright colored plastic clogs known as Crocs^[16] were a brief fad in the summer of 2006.^[17]

Pop singer Britney Spears set many trends.

New Rave becomes popular in the United Kingdom in early 2006, with the trend lasting until mid 2008.

Young Italian men favored rumpled jeans and designer sweatshirts in the late 2000s.

The early 2000s continued the grunge look of the early-to mid '90s in mens fashion, though with a more modern twist: flannel shirts worn with bright colored shirts underneath, T-shirts worn with long sleeved thermal shirts, vans, beanie hats, work boots and ripped loose-fitting stonewashed jeans.^[18] Flannel and lumberjack tops are worn with skinny jeans. Although in the 90s, flannel shirts were baggy and usually unbuttoned, the 2000s flannel was usually tight, buttoned, and part of the scene or emo look.

Within the mid part of the 2000s Emo and the related "Scene" became popular. The Emo look was based around black clothes that included band T-shirts and skinny jeans. This is a major departure from the early emo look of sweater vests and scarfs. Scene was very similar, but bright colors were very common. The Scene style evolved with the introduction of the Hipster look into mainstream and now there are many similarites between the two including v-necks, plaid, and skinny jeans. Scene may have originated from the Harajuku culture, which is normal in Japan.

Hipster fashion, with ironic t-shirts, vintage clothing, tight low pants, and thick rimmed glasses became fashionable. This includes duffle coats, pea coats, skinny jeans with pumps or Converse All Star sneakers.

In 2009, the Jerkin' movement influenced much of the urban community to switch from baggy pants and oversized shirts to fit/skinny jeans, fit clothing and brighter colors.

In late part of the 2000s v-neck shirts became popular among men.

In Europe in the autumn and winter of 2009, stiletto-heeled shoes and ankle boots with cone-shaped heels were very popular.^[19]

The "Lads from 2000" look consisted of wearing Argyle socks over tracksuit bottoms, Rockport boots and Lacoste tracksuits etc. This dress combination was popular amongst British males during the early 2000s.^[20]

Baseball caps, particularly flat billed designs by New Era, were popular for casual wear among teenagers and college aged people. Once confined to the gangsta and redneck subculture, these caps were popular among many different groups and became more mainstream. They also were called "fitted caps" which are caps that don't bend and stay completely stiff.^[21] Many wearers kept the adhesive label on the peak to show others their hat was brand new.^[22]

English singer Amy Winehouse with her trademark beehive hairstyle, 2007

In 2009 a recent imagining of the dapper 1950's style as espoused by Buddy Holly was merged with the Punk fashion of the 1970s.This was,in part,inspired by the English Power Pop/Punk collective which esounced The Librarians.^{[citation needed]}

Christian Audigier's clothing brand based on Ed Hardy's tattoo designs became a popular clothing brand.

Shutter Shades also garnered popularity near the end of the decade. They were normally thin, and rather than bearing lenses, the glasses had horizontal bars spaced a few millimetres apart from the top to the bottom of the frame. They take the appearance of window shutters, hence the Shutter Shades. Some also have a mirror-finish coating beneath the shutters, reflecting light.