In olden days women of the tribes would make the garments, and they were very resourceful and skilled. The process of making, washing, cutting, blending, dyeing, and sewing skins or fibres to make garments was very complex and required a skilled soft hand. For creating the most impressive clothes, some of the Native American Indian clothes were decorated with heavy beadwork taking much dedication of work and patience of time.



The Native Americans respected animals and used strict rituals while slaying animals for their skins and it was considered a sacred system of their society, this can be seen in artifacts which were made from left overs of dead animals when skin was removed from their body. The Native Americans were highly talented craftsworker, they were also good keepers of surrounding environment.

Most of the natural materials were used from animal resources that included oval beads, shapeless shells, quills and feathers. The Native Americans were real masters in the art of weaving and bead-design, and this is skillfuly displayed in the Native American Indian clothes of the ancient time.

Modern Indian clothes now include apparels, woman active apparels, man tennis apparels, woman wears, man wears and fur jackets. The beadwork is very rarely used, only on selective customised garments especially in folk family functions.

Now it is not often that one can find Indian clothes made from traditional skilled methods, due to industrialisation we can see that even handicraft sector rely on basic machines to increase productivity. Volume of sales is gaining importance to compete with the global market and alleviate high international standards which are parameters to increase penetration in the world market. Once high quality is maintained it is easier to tap western countries market thats why we find even two tier cities based manufacturing unit now prefer machines over skilled labour.

This development from bead design garments to modern apparels, woman active apparels, man tennis apparels, woman wears, man wears can be attributed to past colonization of most of the pre dominated Indian states. Now you can find plastic & glass beads that are made up of synthetic materials to enrich the Indie-designed clothes.

Today most of the fashion houses now store and display modern apparels designed by Indian designers. For more apparels, woman active apparels, man tennis apparels, woman wears, man wears you can peep into http://www.retailord.com/apparel.html where all types of apparels old fashioned and newly designed apparels are displayed. Article by Anne Zinta, Head-Articles & News Division of http://www.retailord.com (Attribution)