Dress

Dress varies to some extent according to caste and creed. Except that the state servants wear a bright, [The favourite colours are red, pink, white, purple and black, and sometimes green or yellow.] tightly wound three-cornered turban of the Sindeshai or Sindia pattera, both among high and low caste Hindus the ordinary head-dress is the handkerchief. rumal, wound loosely once or twice round the head. The ordinary dress of upper class Hindus is, for the men in-doors, a waistcloth and under-jacket with or without a coat, and head scarf, rumal; out-doors a waistcloth, a waistcoat, a coat, a head scarf or turban, and a cotton shouldercloth, and Deccani shoes and sandals, vahanas. On great occasions he wears, in addition to his ordinary out-of-door clothes, a specially rich turban, and round his shoulders a woollen shawl. Upper class Hindu women wear in-doors a robe and bodice. Their ordinary out-door dress is the same, only of rich materials, and on great occasions they add a woollen shawl drawn over the head. Boys, except when very young, have a waistcloth, a coat, and a cap or turban, and girls under four have a shirt angda, a cap topi, a petticoat parkar, a bodice choli, and sometimes a robe sadi. After four years old they dress like, grown women. Among middle class Hindus, such as husbandmen and craftsmen, the man wears in-doors a loincloth, a waistcloth, and sometimes a waistcoat; out-of-doors he wears a waistcloth, a waistcoat or sleeveless smock, kanchola, with or without a head scarf, rumal, and in cold or wet weather, a blanket, kamli. On great occasions, instead of his smock, he wears a coat, angarkha, and a turban instead of the head scarf. Middle class women wear in-doors a robe, sadi, out-doors a robe with or without a bodice, and on special occasions a richer or fresher robe and bodice. Boys and girls are, for a year or two, allowed to go naked.