Talk:History of clothing in the Indian subcontinent

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The original text of this page was originally added to Clothing in the ancient world by User:Mauryans. To see the text as it originally stood there, see this revision. Mabalu (talk) 12:47, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Pazyryk rattling mirror

folk art depicted in these mirrors dating to pre mauryan period shows indian women wearing a shirt and a skirt, this is a very important piece of information on the women's dressing in ancient india since most of the female statues in indian statuary are are naked so it automatically assumed that women in india roamed topless in ancient times or that shits were not introduced to india before gupta periods. Rameezraja001 (talk) 19:50, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

You know where Pazyryk is, right? Any connection between finds there & India is very uncertain indeed. Johnbod (talk) 14:11, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

accumulated some info on indus civilization clothing

shirts/ tunics, trousers were known to indus civilization

The figurine has been cast with an elaborate headgear supported by a pair of bands and a brooch, tight-fitted short tunic with skirt part fastened with a broad waist-band using a medallion like clasp, and tight-fitted trousers, necklaces, ear-ornaments...

Standing figure of the Mother Goddess C. 2700-2100 B.C.

my observation of the mother goddess statue is, she wore a tight stitched top which went above her navel, very similar to the ones worn by indian women in the historical period. I also noticed that her tunic/shirt is thinner and finer than her skirt which appears relatively thicker, this suggests me that she is wearing either a muslin or linen because her blouse is showing her bosoms.

In this male figurines, the hat was painted red. The body parts, as observed in the females, were painted yellow, with secondary elements applied in black, perhaps to suggest more ornaments or details of the dress. Yellow and black were also the colours casually fixed on similar and later figurines (Fig. 6) by a ruinous firing at Nausharo (Samzun, 1992; see Tokio Metropolitan Museum, 2000: 42-43; 82-88). In these standing specimens, scattered and broken on the floor of one or more private dwellings of Period ID, yellow was applied to the bodies, brown was applied to represent a kind of trousers, and black marked the eyes, hair and other body details (Kenoyer, 1998: 186-187).

The lady of the spiked throne

the conical tunic with an upper band and with foldings resemble many later indian dresses which have been declared central asian, trousers with conical tunics were definitely known to the indus valley civilization people. These same tunics are depicted as achkan in ujjain coin from 200 BC

here is an image of mother goddess wearing crown and necklace which hangs a medallion, there are holes in these medallions which in my opinion contained gemstones

mother goddess indus valley civilization

sigiriya fresco paintings also depict women wearing same kinda ornament and tunic just indus mother goddess

Sigiriya jewellery

women used to wear only the lower garment in those times, leaving the bust part bare.

i think that this line should be amended, there is too much inference from stylistic depiction of religious statues which appear to be styled on mother goddesses.

here is the link to pre mauryan Pazyryk rattling mirror dating to 400 BC showing females wearing stitched upper tunic and dhoti as lower garment with their heads wrapped in a cloth very similar to indus civilization depictions.

115.135.130.182 (talk) 16:09, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Mother goddess statue tight fitting tunic and trousers.

Under the section "Indus Valley Civilisation period", regarding the Mother Goddess statue at Delhi National Museum, the source (https://web.archive.org/web/20130516214118/http://nationalmuseumindia.gov.in/prodCollections.asp?pid=34&id=1&lk=dp1) ie the museum's own website describes it as wearing tight fitting tunic and trousers. Can someone familiar with clothing on ancient figurines provide some insight, as to me, it seems to be wearing only a mini skirt with some belt like fastening over the trunk, with the breasts, waist and legs visibly naked. Khchn (talk) 11:17, 5 January 2021 (UTC)