COSTUMES
India: Gujarat, Rajkot, Rajkot
Jacket (kediyun -- man's)
1957
Plain weave; Embroidered, machine
Cotton; Metallic thread
18 1/2 in. x 2 yds. 4 in. (47 cm x 1.93 m)
Elizabeth Bayley Willis Collection, gift of Virginia and Prentice Bloedel
TC 58.1-360, t2

Although Indian women generally have retained their traditional regional garments longer than men, the men of Gujurat, especially of Kutch and Saurashtra, continue to wear kamri, a jacket with side tie closures, and either salwar, trousers with a drawstring waist, or a shorter variation of the dhoti, and unstitched draped garment. Kamblas (shoulder cloths) are of coarse wool with temples and camels depicted in the bands of supplementary weft patterning. Kamblas parallel the woman’s odhani in their construction. They are made of two loom-width panels of cloth decoratively joined in the center. Men’s clothing is most often white, appropriate for Gujarat’s dry and relentlessly hot days. -- Label copy for Courtyard, Bazaar, Temple: Celebration of Tradition, Bellevue Art Museum, June 10 to July 25, 1982.