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 Indian Clothing in the Aryan Era

In the aryan era, women were dressed in an uttariya (a piece of unstiched cloth that drapes the upper part of the body), an antariya (a lower garment worn like a dhoti), a kayabandh (a piece of cloth used as a blouse ; it is strapless and often tied at the back; an older version of the mordern day bandeau). Men wore the antariya and the uttariya.

For jewellry, women wore large necklaces, earrings, mang tikkas, head jewellry, hair jewellery, arm bracelets, thick kaddas, kamarbandhs, waist jewellery, payals and bichiyas and chudamani for married women. Men too wore jewellery. They sported turbans or crowns (for the royal men), necklaces, arm bracelets, thick kaddas, kamarbandhs, waist jewellery and kaddas for their feet too.

Both men and women wore cloth juttis with thick soles.

Women had long waist-to-knee lenght hair while men had shoulder lenght hair.

The dressing styles varried with caste status, economic status, social stus and other barriers.