1998 | The Indian Sari: Draping Bodies, Revealing Lives

This exhibition showed the significance of draping styles in Indian textiles as expressions of the wearers' lives and cultural traditions. The exhibition went beyond the descriptive to post that material culture such as clothing may reveal a wealth of information about how a society functions, what its beliefs and social structures are, and how diverse its layers are. The way an Indian sari is draped can indicate the social and geographical differences of class, caste, occupation and area of residence.