Grab the extra fabric between your front pleats and pallu. Gather the fabric to create pleats along your hip. Pin the pleats to the first layer of the saree and your underskirt or Saree Silhouette. Simple!

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A quick tip for perfect hip pleats: Pull the saree tight, pin it to your right thigh, then pinch, pull, and tuck it into your waistband. So easy, even a beginner can do it!

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Saree School Lesson 25 - How to Nurse in a Saree

Lesson 25 tells you everything you need to know if you're at an event and need to nurse your baby. Follow these easy steps:

1. Wear a front-open blouse.

90% of tiabhuva.com blouses are nursing friendly (zippered blouses can be worn with the zipper in front or back) and were launched when I had my first son because I wanted a soft stretchy blouse I could comfortably fit in whether I had just nursed or was overdue for nursing.

2. Pin together all pleats.

Pinning together your pallu pleats keeps everything in place when it's time to nurse, making it easier to fix your drape afterwards.

3. Do not attach this pin to blouse.

If you pin your pallu pleats together and to your blouse with the same pin, your pleats will unravel every time you need to take the pallu down.

4. Separate pin to attach to blouse for easy removal.

Using a separate pin to pin the pallu to your blouse ensures that your pleats will stay intact every time.

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Saree School Lesson 20 - No sew blouse alteration.

A quick temporary fix - perfect for when you’re in a pinch or “borrowing” Amma’s sarees + blouses.

• Use good quality, sturdy pins and take your time to lock the safety pin (you don’t want them coming undone).
• If you look closely at the body pins in the after shots you can see some of the pins and it’s not very even - don’t be like me and take your time/redo if need be. Tip: if you have to choose, take more time on the sleeves vs body because the body will be covered by the saree.
• I only showed one side for demonstration but pin both sides so that it’s even and designs/zippers stay centered.

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Saree School Lesson 19 - How to measure your bust.

If you’re getting your blouse stitched, you can ignore this lesson. However if you’re shopping online for a blouse, this is a pretty common question we get - ie where to measure for the bust measurement.

If you have any questions about our super versatile and comfortable blouses, please email hello@tiabhuva.com

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Saree School Lesson 18 - Fold forward and tuck.

If you have enough saree left over to create another pleat always create another pleat but if it’s not enough, then create a micro pleat at the right hip.

Folding forward ensures that the first pleat in the middle doesn’t open up and stray from the other pleats.

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Saree School Lesson 17 - How to hold an open Pallu.

One way to manage an open Pallu is to loosely pleat it upwards and then pin it to the bottom of your blouse.

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Saree School Lesson 16 - Open Pallu hack.

Lesson 16 is all you need when wearing an open Pallu. Before taking your front pleats, measure out your Pallu length. A good length is typically to the back of your knee.

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Saree School Lesson 15 - Inner pleat hack.

Inner pleat going rogue? We have a hack for that - lift up the inner pleat and bring it slightly inward then pin and tuck as usual!

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Saree School Lesson 13 - Pin to right thigh.

One of many hacks for perfect hip pleats. Pull the saree taut and then pin it to your right thigh. Pinch and pull the saree up and tuck it into your waistband.

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