In today’s world RIPPED means having extremely low body fat combined with high muscle definition, creating a lean, sculpted, and muscular appearance.

In our times Ripped meant being made a fool of.

In my vocabulary, it means opening the seams of a blouse so that it can fit!!!!

Honestly, before any function that requires a Sari, I spend at least a week deciding which sari I should wear. This normally depends on which blouse fits.

Luckily, these days, the scope of wearing saris has increased because of the trend of wearing any blouse on any sari as long as it is aesthetically pleasing. Thus, you have people wearing T-shirts, tank tops, boat-necked tops and even regular collared shirts as sari blouses.

In fact, the additional material that comes with the regular sari is so insufficient for my blouse that I pair it with another blouse piece (or match some fabric) to make my own boat-necked blouse to wear with my trousers.

Why Can’t the Tailor make a blouse that fits?

For years, I held the belief that sari blouses shrink. Especially when the cotton ones came back from wash. Or even the silk ones with cotton lining.

So to counter this problem, I insisted on the tailor making the blouses an inch looser rather than the skin-tight fit that is the norm. For a few blouses/years, the tailor followed my instructions till one day the garment began to look decidedly ugly.

My tailor of course came up with another idea “Madam,” he tells me,” You should not make blouses larger than you require because you then expand to fit into them. Perhaps you should make blouses a tad smaller so that YOU shrink to fit them!”

So till I find the perfect solution to the perennially fitting blouse, I shall have to resort to the RIPPING the blouse in double time so as to get ready for the function in time.

Ciao,