How to Wear Saree in 9 Different Ways | Saree Draping

The basic requirements to drape a saree:

• ✔Saree: A long 6yard drape one-piece fabric to wrap around the body. If you need sarees then visit G3fashion saree collection where you find 1000+ unique designs.
• ✔Blouse: The essential need for saree, top wear which is almost like a crop top but in well-fitting. Need Readymade blouse then check our Readymade blouse Collection.
• ✔Petticoat: Worn as bottom wear in a long inner skirt serving to carry the drape firmly. You can also Buy a petticoat by purchasing any saree.

Tips to remember before draping Saree.

• Always wear your petticoat firmly at the waist, so that the saree is tucked in properly without falling off.
• Always put on Heals, or any footwear you desire to wear along with the saree before you start draping up, as this brings the perfect length draped around the body.
• Use safety pins or clips to pin up pleats and sections where the drape is required to be fixed.

1. Take the saree end from the top edge, tuck it in the petticoat starting from the right side of your waist across your left waist.
2. From the left hand bring the drape around your waist from the back to the center front tucking it in.
3. Now you will need to make 6-8 of 5-6 inches pleats of the remaining drape at the center and tuck it in the petticoat, facing pleats to the left.
4. Bring the open drape across your back to your front from the right side, without tucking it. You can pin up the pleats at the center for it to be in the center position and tuck the drape edge till your left side waist.
5. Now hold up the width (pallu) section and make pleats incomplete width in 5-6 inches, making sure the border falls on the first pleat to drape it on the shoulder.
6. Hold the pleats vertical and bring the drape fall from beneath the right armhole, pulling it up towards and across your left shoulder.
7. Place the pleats properly on your left shoulder by keeping at least a meter length fall from the shoulder point, and pin it in place to fix it.

1. The basic step of draping the saree is to wrap it around the waist, tuck it in the petticoat.
2. Then take hold of the open edge, tuck it in the waist, and tilt it to bring the pleat to the right waist and tuck it.
3. Repeat the phase of tilting it again, bringing it across the left waist from the front. And then tuck at the waist again tilt and bring back to the right side waist from the front and tuck.
4. Now pick up the width section and make pleats of the whole width. Here the border comes on the front and the first pleat. Pin it in position from falling off.
5. Holding pleats vertical and throw the pleated drape on your left shoulder to back in all possible lengths.
6. Now hold the first pleat edge, spreading it across your back to the right side. Bringing the edge in front under your right armhole to the top of your right shoulder. A tassel or hanging is attached to the corner and left in position.

1. Go with the basic steps of draping till the pleats and tucked into the center petticoat facing left.
2. Then take the width section of the end drape and make pleats. Gathering them firmly with the top border as the first pleat.
3. Hold the pleats vertically and bring them around your back waist from the left to the top right back shoulder.
4. Putting the pleats from the right shoulder back to fall front in a way where the pleats open to the left-hand side.
5. Tuck the pleats at the shoulder point with a pin to fix it. Pick up the first border edge and pull it across your left side under the left armhole and tuck it.

1. The first step of basic draping a saree till the section of the lower drape pleats.
2. Tuck the pleats in the waist keeping them a bit towards the left hand from the center and facing the left-hand side.
3. Then pick up the open edge of the sari and make pallu pleats of the whole width in 5-6inches.
4. Throw the pleated drape from turning in from the left-back to the right bringing in front, under the right armhole to the left front shoulder.
5. Then take the lower drape center mid pleat of the lower edge. Pushing it through between the two legs and pulling it up from the back mid, in a neat form.
6. Keeping the border edge in front view, tuck it in the waist center back of the petticoat. It develops more free movement, a dhoti look.

1. Taking the basic steps of draping the saree from 1 to the step you put up the pleats of the lower drape and tuck them in, still carries.
2. Next, you need to hold the edge of the saree which comes exactly after the tucked-in pleats, and twist the top border edge inwards facing down so the border can fall on a lower length.
3. Hold the width portion of the saree and just unevenly gather it and tacking it across your back bring it from your right underarm to front and throw it back your left shoulder.
4. The pull the portion you have turned down after the pleats, for it to hang till your hip level, pulling and stretching it evenly on your left hip carried on to the back and kept to folded till the right underarm passing drape.
5. Arrange the pleats properly to fall on the shoulder which was already temporarily thrown behind. Adjust the borders on the front bodice to look like two parallel lines until meeting at the left shoulder point and pin it up to fix it in place.

1. Complete the 1^st and 2^nd steps of the basic draping saree, till where tuck in the center of the petticoat before tacking pleats.
2. Now take 2 pleats of 5-6 inches and tuck them in facing the left-hand side.
3. Picking up the long edge of the saree from the center pleat wrap it around the left side. And take it back until brought forward at the right side waist.
4. Tuck it 5-6 inches above the normal toe length of the saree. And same until brought on a wraparound in same till right side again
5. Again tuck in above the level of another 5-6 inches and continue in the level and wrap around the waist of the right side.
6. Now make pleats of the width section, in 5-6inch and then take it under the right armhole bring it across the front to the left shoulder, and throw it falling backward.
7. Arrange the front bodice drape to become more narrow than the usual drape and pin in position at the shoulder.

1. Take the first usual round but don’t go for pleats, instead tuck the edge till your left side waist.
2. Now take the open edge and hold up the width section to form pallu pleats. Take the entire width from the top border as the first pleat.
3. Then you bring the pleated drape across your left-hand side to your back right side. Throwing it from the right backside to the front right shoulder, and let it hang.
4. The length of your pallu should be long enough above the toe level. Also, pin up the pleats at shoulder point like the Gujarati drape style.
5. Now take the first pleat edge and spread it to your front bodice. Wrapping around till backside, again bringing it forward till the left side in full stretched fitted form.
6. Then hold the corner and pin it up underneath the drape across, on the left side by the thigh.

1. Carrying the pallu pleats in a good pile and pinned on the left shoulder and left hanging back.
2. The front drape going across the shoulder can be adjusted in keeping pleats 5-6 inches. Or smaller pleats 3 inches in narrow look, or also 8-9 inches to cover the bodice comfortably.

1. Carrying all the steps the same till the pallu pleats.
2. Do not make pleats, and just wrap it up covering the front bodice. Also pinning the top edge at the left shoulder, to allow the other edge to just hang down.

• There’s no need to wear a petticoat for this particular style. Instead, you will need a pair of leggings in ankle length and a well-fitted blouse.
• Take the saree pallu end and make pallu pleats, now pull this over your left shoulder.
• Then take the other end and bring it from the right side to your left side waist and tuck in.
• Now all the loose ends of the saree should be nicely pleated in and tucked in the center of your pants.
• Then re-adjust the pallu pleats that your front bodice is covered up well and pin pleat at the shoulder.

• The net sarees are versatile, if heavily embroidered then they can use the basic style drape or the open pallu, to bring out its beauty. A glittering or textured and complementing petticoat gives a double styling effect. Also, petticoats of sequins fabric, velvets, shifli nets, or woven brocades are highly in need.
• Cotton silk sarees and blended cotton can look good in professional look drapes
• The Mumtaz drape saree looks best in a sheer fabric, georgette, chiffon, or any other blend in sheer fabric and is lightweight. Almost in one border in contrast mode, to enhance the look.
• The mermaid-style drape would require a saree with a heavy border in a broad look, to bring adornment to the drape when draping around.
• Plain sarees in lightweight in a single border can also look gorgeous infancy drapes like Deepika style. Or the Nivi style to open pallu style which requires easy tilting and folding.
• The Gujarati style drape saree normally in heavy pallu, mostly silk brocades or embellished heavily. Even the Bengali-style drape would require the same.