My new saree

I bought a new saree earlier this week with the excuse that I've been invited to too many weddings not to have a silk saree to wear to them. Flimsy excuse, but anything would do. So a friend from work, Shushi, and I went to a saree shop and I bought the outfit you see in the pics below. It was really fun. You sit at a table and tell them if you want cotton or silk or what, if you want embroidery or sequins or what, the colors you like, whether you like designer or traditional. And they pull sarees off shelves behind them and open them up on the table in front of you. Over and over. When you like one, they will put a velcro band around your waist, drape the saree on you, and show you in a mirror til you find one you like. It is sooooo much fun. I looked at just about every green saree in the place til I got the one below. It's peacock green silk with dark orange and gold trim. The blouse is orange silk. I felt so glamorous all day at work. :-) Shushi is the one in the other green saree; she wore it because she knows firsthand how much I like green sarees, since she looked at all of them with me at the shop, and she had told me that she had a saree I would just love-- all shades of green. Srividja is in the light-colored saree with the print; she went with me to get the blouse. Vaishnavi is in the red salwar kimeez; she sits next to me at work and helped Shushi and me to drape our sarees properly.