25 Latest Dupatta Draping styles for this wedding season
Here comes another season of weddings and festivities and the weather is also slowly turning a little hot. Wedding preparations might have already started at bride and grooms families. Not only brides and grooms are thinking about what to wear for thier wedding outfits but also bridemaids and wedding guests. Nowadays most of weddings having mehendi or sangeet pre-wedding celebration, A big event wedding followed by reception. So, everyone can get a chance to show off their colorful collection and do lot of experiments with their outfits.
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| Dupatta Draping Styles for wedding Season |
The Indian bride has a lot many ways to dress herself for her big day. Not only bride but also guests will go for a Lehenga, saree, Anarkalis or a suit in wedding events. Whatever you may choose to dress herself in, a dupatta will always be an essential part of the bridal outfit and is in fact one of the first thing that is starkly noticed when it comes to an Indian bride.
Dupattas are though a simple and cutesy piece to fall for, they offer every special look that every stylish woman deserves. Be it designer lehenga, saree, wedding salwar suit or kurti, this number always stays there for that magnificent appeal.
You can go for any one of the following ways a dupatta can be draped in to make you look stunning and perfect and give away different style statements.
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| Dupatta draping with kanjeevaram |
Bored by the same conventional styles of draping your dupatta, for parties and occasions? Want to shine bright in your Indian attire but not sure how to style your dupatta like a diva? Well, Here is a list f the trending dupatta draping styles making the rounds in the fashion industry which are handpicked just for you!!
1. Saree style draping
This is the latest trending bridal dupatta draping style in weddings, this style has the dupatta draped over your shoulder with the opposite corner tucked in the waist from the front with the pleats, and lined pleats in the front side of the dupatta brings up a look similar to saree. But for this type of draping your dupatta should be long enough to get pleats to grab the saree look.
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| Saree style dupatta Draping |
2. Half Saree Style
Popular South Indian style known as a half saree, This Indian bridal look has the dupatta draped over your shoulder like a saree with the opposite corner tucked in to the hip. Everything is pinned and out of your way. Take the longest end of your lehenga dupatta and bring it to the front. Fold the corner to create a pleat and then tuck it into the front of your skirt, just below your belly button. Make sure that you tuck in enough fabric to hold the dupatta in place. A few inches should do.
Dupatta draping style a loose half saree with the opposite corner tucked in the back. This works better with a soft material such as silk, chiffon, and satin.
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| Half Saree Dupatta drape |
3. Over Head Style
The dupatta normally worn with the lehenga and choli can be draped over your head and one corner tucked in the hip. It can also be worn in the form of a loose saree with one end loosely tucked behind your back. This style works better if your dupatta is made up lighter material such as chiffon or satin.
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| Over-Head Dupatta draping style |
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| Over-Head Dupatta draping style |
4. Belted Dupatta Style
One of the very famous trends these days is belted dupattas that were typically worn by south Indian brides earlier. These days this is becoming a great choice with sarees, lehengas or half sarees. Often the belts worn are beautifully embellished and have become one of the most sought after accessories. Earlier belts made up of gold or silver were used but nowadays metal or leather belts and cloth belts , laces also used as accessories.
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| Belted Dupatta Draping |
5. Tie on Wrist style
This one looks quite Royal and you can easily carry this style on your relative wedding. All you need to do is let the dupatta rest on your right shoulder, adjust its length, preferably let it be below your knees and tie the other end of the chunni around the wrist. You see, how simple it is.
Another way to drape the dupatta is to pleat it and roll around your wrists. You can pin the dupatta to avoid it from slipping again and again. Keep your dupattas light and simple when going with this style.
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| Tie-on-wrist dupatta draping |
You can even try tie up both the ends of dupatta to the wrists as Avanthika in Bahubali, It gives Angel like appearance. you can try same color or contrast colored dupatta for this draping.
6. The Casual Drape Style
If the event or the wedding ceremony doesn’t require much of the movements, this one is a great choice to go for. It goes well with lehengas and short cholis, Just throw your dupatta across the chest. You can use pins to safely tuck the dupatta on your shoulders to keep it at place all the time. This style is more suitable when the lehenga or dress is simple and duppata is heavy or requires more attention. This draping style won't disturb overall look of your attire if you use see through dupattas.
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| Casual Dupatta draping |
7. Free-Falling Style
It is one of the simplest and the most elegant dupatta draping styles that you can carry for an everyday style. The free falling dupatta draping style from your shoulders without any pleats or creases, can be styled with both salwar-kameez and lehanga choli too. The ease of wearing this style makes it ideal for regular wear, both formal and casual and can be flaunted by women of a heavy bust line too without feeling uncomfortable about it.
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| Free-Fall Dupatta Draping |
This is another casual drape style is to keep the dupatta open and let it drape freely across the front over the shoulders. This style restricts movement and should be worn with see through dupattas so as the front of your outfit is not disguised.
8. Water-Fall Style
If you are looking for an effortless style for the elegant, then its a perfect choice. In this drape instead of pinning the dupatta on both sides of the shoulder, only one side is pinned and the other is casually dropped or slipped that falls down like a fountain and rests on your one hand, giving the look a feel that you are totally effortless yet in control of how you look.
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| Water-Fall Dupatta Draping |
9. Necklane style
The style of casually throwing the pleated dupatta over your necklane to achieve a mess-free look is something that can be done even when you are in a rush to catch that meeting or appointment in your office. There is hardly any need to go for the hassles of pinning it on your shoulders and keep them comfortably on your shoulders.
you can try pleated dupatta on your necklane and other side leave it freely.
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| Necklane Dupatta Draping |
10. Around Elbow/ Arm style
Another style that looks quite regal and gives you the feeling of royalty is throwing the dupatta from the back of your arms instead of carrying it on your shoulders that is the usual styles. This style of draping the dupatta goes well with lehangas with heavy flare, anarkali suits and even the long gowns with intricate thread and sequin work on it to illuminate the look. Since it is a style that is a bit hard to maintain, it will be great if it is styled for selected occasions and not taken as an option for regular wear.
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| Outside Around-Arm Dupatta Draping |
You can wear the dupatta on arms from inside out or from out side to inwards. Both gives awesome looks as shown.
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| Inwards Around-Arm dupatta Draping |
11. Stole Style
Another casual and chick way to drape your dupatta fro an everyday and effortless style is to drape it around your neck in v-shape or u-shape. The style works especially well on kurtis and printed dupattas that makes for an awesome style statement and keeps you warm in winters too.
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| Stole-Style Dupatta Draping |
12. Deep U/V-Shape Style
This elegant draping style, lets you flaunt your full attire and compliments your outfit. If you are going to wear a beautiful blouse with the lehenga then this is the style recommended for. To follow this style, take your dupatta across both the shoulders and let the ends fall loose at the back. Allow your dupatta tilt a little down from the beauty bone to form a V-shape, and you are ready to flaunt perfectly among your peers.
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| U/V Shape Dupatta Draping |
13. Loop Style
Give a new touch to your usual style of wearing dupatta and you can try out this style for an attractive and subtle look. For this classy style, place your dupatta on one of the shoulders and then pin/tie up at the ends to make a complete loop of it. Women who don’t want to spare a second in faddish styles and tricks can opt for this one as this style is totally hassle-free and also perfect for all busy bees.
you can wear this tied up dupatta diagonally from one shoulder to opposite side or simply hang it as a bag on a single side of the shoulder.
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| Loop-Style Dupatta Draping |
14. flared style
This is one of the trendy style where border plays an important role in the drape and gives fusion look to your attire. Take the corner of the dupatta and start pleating from the V-corner and continue to pleat to get flared look till you get enough length on the front and secure that V-corner on your shoulder. you can even try this draping on sarees with rich pallu and border.
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| flared Style Dupatta Draping |
15. Front Pleat Style
One of the easiest ways to drape the dupatta without any extra fuss is to just pleat the whole dupatta and drape it across one of the shoulders. There is no need to fidget it at all and the other end is cleanly tucked at the back.
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| Front-Pleated Style Dupatta Draping |
16. Side style
This style looks chic and elegant with a ghagra-choli and flaunts both your dress and the dupatta that you drape. You can simply pin your dupatta to your blouse at the shoulder and let it pleat beautifully along your side. Use this style when you want more attention on the border of your dupatta.
Another way you can pin it on one shoulder just from the border and let the whole fabric hang loose open on your arm.
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| Side-Style Dupatta Draping |
17. Ruffled Dupatta
You can add a bit of substance to your lehenga with a ruffle dupatta. No matter what kind or colour of lehenga you are wearing, with a ruffle dupatta, you can take your attire to the next level.
Either you can go for small ruffles around the border of dupatta and broad ruffled dupatta all over as showcased in the picture.
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| Ruffled Style Dupatta Draping |
18. Wings style
In this Fusion style, dupattas are attached as a sleeve or off shoulder pattern and leave the rest of duppa freely which gives wings type appearance as show cased by Bipasha in recent Lakme Fashion Week and gives royal look to your festive attire too.
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| Wings-Style Dupatta |
19. Dual Dupatta Draping style
This is called MahaRani Style dupatta draping. This trend of carrying double dupatta came into fashion few years back. This type of dupatta is perfect for those brides who don’t prefer to carry a heavy dupatta over their head on their wedding day. Hence they drape a second dupatta that is lighter in weight and can be taken over the head in order to perform all the wedding rituals.
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| MahaRani-Style Dupatta Draping |
20. Wrap up style
You need a pin and searching eyes for the best part of the dupatta if it has embroidered work patterns and styles. Wrap your dupatta like a shawl and pin it up at the mid-half. Just make sure that the best part of the dupatta is at the front side. Pull down the latter part at the front and let it fall down freely for a dreamy effect. Georgette dupattas, chiffon dupattas or similar fabric showcases best silhouettes and flow. So pick it up accordingly.
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| Wrap-around Style Dupatta Draping |
21. Shawl style
It’s easy and just like that!
The best part is - You need not follow any guide or hard and fast map to pull this style. Just drape like front fall spread its full coverage around your shoulders. To place the dupatta aptly over your shoulder, you can pin it up at the exact place. If you are wearing a full sleeves lehenga, then you can pin up the ends of dupatta on the sleeves as well.
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| Shawl-Style Dupatta Draping |
22. Princess draping style
This a type of over Head dupatta draping style with little difference instead of covering up full hair with dupatta, you can pin it you dupatta slightly back in Hair Bun and bring both the ends to front underneath your hands and tuck them in the sides on your waist as showcased by kajal agarwal.
You can even tie up both the ends to your wrists to get statement look. This dupatta drape gives gorgeous as well as feminine look to the bride. You can try these draping in pre-wedding sangeeth ceremony.
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| Princess Style Dupatta Draping |
23. Gujarati style
One of the most common dupatta of lehenga wearing styles coming from ages, this is one of the safest ways to drape dupatta for lehenga resorted to by most number of brides. This drape is great to keep your belly covered if you are one of those brides who is not comfortable showing your midriff. While using this style of dupatta drape, Keep the small pleats neatly and pin it safely on your left shoulder to the front and determine how long you want it to be.. Bring the other end of the dupatta all the way back to the front and tuck it in the waist. The lose end of the dupatta should be secured in the skirt behind from the front, making a beautiful loop.
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| Gujarati Style Dupatta Draping |
24. Cape style
Well as a modern day Indian bride rather than taking a separate dupatta with your lehenga, what you can do is wear a cape lehenga choli. As a bride you need to perform various wedding rituals and carrying a dupatta can be very uncomfortable, hence a cape lehenga choli is the best option for you. This style is quite famous in the fashion world these days and if you want to look like a very fashionable bride then buy this style for yourself today.
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| Cape-Style Dupatta Draping |
25. Cocktail Style
Finally you can mix up any two of the above draping styles and come up with your own style to flaunt this wedding season and look gorgeous.
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| Cocktail Dupatta draping |
Choose the dupatta with care
Because the dupatta is going to be the most visible and highlighted garment of your wedding attire, take care to choose it wisely. You must go in for a dupatta draping style that you are comfortable in. Going for something different or something non-comfortable will only make you a laughing stock. Moreover you will not feel comfortable throughout the ceremonies causing anxiety and uncomfortable.
If you are unable to choose or drape the dupatta in the right manner, take the help of the experts. They will not only help you choose the best dupatta that goes well with your wedding lehenga but will also help you pick one that is within your budget.
You can find some amazing dupatta draping trends on the internet. Simply choose the style of dupatta draping as per your comfort. In addition, you must ask your beautician to tie and pin the dupatta carefully so that you are at ease while carrying it across from one ceremony to the other.
Conclusion
Whichever way you may choose to drape your dupatta on the day of event, keep utmost care that it compliments your body structure and goes the best with the outfit that you are wearing on the day. Also, keep sure that the dupatta bring out the most in your attire and you look dazzling as ever. Keep sure that your style of draping the dupatta doesn’t at all hide the work on your attire and bring out the maximum that you planned for your dress!!Drape perfectly and look gorgeous!
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Image Sources & References
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Lakme Fashion week 2018
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