Cotton Skirt in handloom woven soft fabric is especially suitable for women in late twenties and beyond. Hand-block prints in Indian motifs make them attractive casual dresses. Drawstring at waist adds to their casual look and feel. Urban women in India in the age group twenty five to fifty prefer to wear these wraps in spring and summer. Long cotton wraps have airy feel in summer.
Early Indian literature, speaks of the bhairnivasni, a wrap like garment, which evolved from the antariya, a simple tube shaped garment. This was stitched on one side, gathered and held at the waist by a girdle. Women wore it as a lower garment. It later evolved into a wrap with a drawstring called the ghaghri. The ghaghri was a narrow wrap, made from five and a half meters of fabric, the same length as the original antariya. The wrap in India is known by many different names, depending on the regional style, the most popular, by far, being the ghaghra.It was the flare that made the ghaghra such a sumptuous garment and one so captivating that it was celebrated both in poetry and art. The ghaghra is really a long wrap, which has the construction of a simple gathered wrap or a flared gored wrap.