The word "sari" is correct and can be used in formal written English.
It is a word used to describe a traditional garment typically worn by South Asian and Southeast Asian women. For example, “The bride wore a stunning green silk sari for her wedding.”.
Although throughout most of India women wear saris and short blouses, the way in which a sari is wrapped varies greatly from one region to another.
Here's how they found the experience.... Our weekday detox was on a Wednesday night, so I did some sewing: Diwali is coming up, so I needed to work on my sari, adding some little borders and adjusting it so it fits and flows properly.
Her sari was borrowed from a friend – who had clearly either been on hand to act as a dresser for the day, or had provided excellent tuition – and the 42-year-old carried the look with panache.
I wear a little black sari in Italian chiffon with a bikini blouse and Louboutin heels, in the same way that western women wear a little black dress".
"Everything about your sari is a social signifier, and only members of the lowest caste would wear a short sari," she says.
When you buy a sari you usually have to do the alterations yourself, so I decided to do it now.
At her primary school, my sari-wearing mother was a member of the local NUT black teachers' caucus.
David Cameron appears twice in the gallery, once alongside his sari-clad wife, Samantha, and both times, to his credit, mid-term.
The rubble is shifted not by bulldozers but by the sari-clad women seen all over India who carry it in baskets on their heads.A second glance, however, tells another story.
On television she is a sari-clad battle-axe.
Its pretty streets of pastel-coloured houses, connected by first-floor passages and home to the last 12 sari- and sarong-wearing, white-skinned Indian Jews, are visited by thousands of tourists each year.
