Lugade

A Hindu woman's dress is the full Maratha "sari" of nine yard. The nine yards sari is generally worn by elderly ladies and is known as Lugade or "Nauvaree" in Marathi. It is forty-two to forty-five inches in width, and it has two lengthwise borders "kanth" or "kinar", and also two breadthwise borders, "padar", at the two ends, of which one is more decorated than the other. The mode of wearing the "lugade" by (Maratha) "Brahmans" and other classes is with the hind pleats tucked into the waist at the back-centre and the decorated end ("padar") thrown over the left shoulder. Maratha ladies allow it to hang from the waist straight down and around like a skirt, and draw its end which covers the bosom and back over the head. Saris of five or six yards in length have now become fashionable among young ladies in the urban centres.