Culture and fashion

Abstract

As a result of different cultural influences the Kandyan dress showed hybrid formation of western, South Indian and Sinhalese traditional sartorial features. Sewing techniques and unsewn dress arranging methods were mixed together. The dress became an amazing blend of eastern and western dress items. They combined different foreign dress items together and made their own one. The analysis is explored through observational study of actual descriptions made by observational - participants, historical records, murals of the period and reviewing ancient literature, research papers relevant to the subject. Reliability of the data was ensured. The pictorial data were cross checked from different literary sources. Many original sources were used. Interviews with academic scholars, artists, inheritances of Kandyan aristocrats enabled to build a strong logical analysis