How to Hide your Tummy While wearing the Saree !!

How to wear a Saree without Showing Your Stomach??

20 ways to drape a  saree without showing your fat tummy

Wearing saree is every Indian woman's favorite and I can even say every girl's dream from their childhood. In fact, flaunting in saree is a reflection of our Indian tradition coming from ages. Saree is must wear women outfit in most of the Indian festivals and wedding ceremonies that happen in families.  Though saree is all women favorite, few women do not prefer to wear a saree since they are not comfortable and don't like to show-off their tummy.

Women want to hide their tummy due to various reasons such as stretch marks, double tummy, fat tummy, flaw skin, baby bump,  love handles, waist shapes out and many more. Whatever could be the reason, Today I came up with a few Ideas to hide your belly while wearing the saree without any hesitation.

1. Use Lengthy Blouse on saree:

 Covering up your tummy with a blouse is a fuss-free idea.Do you remember old actress blouse designs??  They never ever showed-off their stomach. Simply follow that old-fashioned style by making them trendy with a small twist.Just ask your tailor to lengthen the down yoke part of the blouse. Either you can design the yoke part with lace or contrast shade frills so that stomach is covered up fully. These blouses not just serve the purpose but also gives a trendy look.

Anushka Shetty with a lengthy blouse  in  Bahubali 2 audio Launch Event

 Covering up tummy with Lengthy Blouse

  Lengthy Blouse designs to cover up your Belly

2. Wear Cape Blouse on saree:

Cape Blouse is the latest blouse hitting the fashion. This  Chic blouse style is also a good option to cover up the tummy part because the cape comes up with overall work or at the border and is extended to the stomach to cover up your belly. Either you can go with a full cape or a semi-cape blouse to get the enthralled appearance.

Latest cape designer blouses to hide your waistline

3. Wear Corset Blouse with saree:

Wear a full sleeved or sleeveless corset blouse with saree in spite of a usual blouse, that gives unique appeal and full tummy coverup as well. Corset blouse is nothing but lengthy blouse compared to normal with a shape defined at waistline. You can wear the saree in any style that you want to drape with these corset blouses without any worries about exposing of your tummy. These corset blouses are perfect for Net or transparent sarees. Also, you can even try different draping style like shoulder brooched style by gathering all pallu pleats and secure them with either brooch at a shoulder or tie up with any lace to get the ultra-modern look. But, Never cover up this corset blouse beauty saree pallu. Either you can pick up embellished blouse or stretchable lace corset to get the slimmer look.

Designer Shilpa Reddy in Corset Blouse

Tummy covering Blouse designs

Corset designer Blouse to Hide your belly

4. Wear a Short Jacket Over saree:

This style instantly glam up your look. Apart from the traditional blouse, you need to cover up a short jacket. Wear the saree with the actual sleeves or sleeveless blouse and Try wearing a short jacket on the top of the saree, that takes care of hiding your tummy and that definitely make you stand in the crowd. You can wear this short Jacket over the saree or underneath the saree pallu pleats with open or button-up jackets or Velvet jackets, Either way, give you an elegant look for sure.

Models Showcasing Short Jackets over saree without showing their tummy

5. Wear Long Jacket Over saree: 

Long jacket over saree is a great way to add style and beauty to your saree. Wear the saree with the usual blouse and Try wearing a long jacket on the top of the saree.  These long jackets give you an opportunity to play with colors. For the jacket blouse to stand out, You can go with either contrast jacket with saree and Blouse or Embellished/Florally patterned jackets or with monochrome Patterns. But, Don't mess up with too many patterns that ruin the beauty of the saree.

Contrast Long JAckets over Saree to hide your tummy fat

Latest Long jacket designs to cover up your Belly

Sheer Long jacket design to cover up your Belly without disturbing saree look

6. Drape the saree in freestyle: 

It is the easiest and well-known method to hide your tummy, Simply open the pallu part of the saree free without any pleats at shoulder. This freestyle works for georgette, chiffon, crepe sarees which are non-transparent. But, don't try this open style with sheer fabric which are totally miss the purpose. you can even bring the edge of pallu to the front and hold to get the classy look or tie up to your wrist to get a modern look.

Freestyle saree draping to hide the belly 

7. Pinning Saree to the blouse:

To keep the saree intact, its a good idea to use pins. Pin the pleats of saree pallu at the front &  at side of the blouse so that pleats are secured in place and no worries about exposing the tummy area. Use the pins efficiently and neatly by pinning them underneath the saree pallu so that the pins are not visible.

Pinning saree to Blouse to hide your tummy

8. Draping Technique: 

Hiding tummy doesn't mean that you wrap up the fabric around you but, draping the saree neatly and comfortably Draping the saree in an efficient way can cover up your tummy at its best. At the starting part of the pallu from where the front pleats end,  secure with a safety pin one with a blouse and another one underneath the front pleats so that the tummy is covered and gives slimmer look.

Draping saree tip to hide your stomach

9. Wear Gujarati Style saree draping: 

This is a traditional and beautiful way to drape a sari. Here you take the pallu pleats around and bring it over the right shoulder. Now pin it neatly so that the pleats hang in the front. You can either pin lower side of the top pleat of pallu slightly towards your left or tuck the topmost layer in the back covering your postpartum belly.

Gujarati Saree drape to hide Belly

10. Wear double saree draping: 

Double saree draping is a massive hit last year and they are in very much vogue.  Bollywood Actress Sonam Kapoor spotted in some events these dual saree draping last year. I just tried with one of my net saree that worked well in a festival get-together. Drape the saree in freestyle and attach a dupatta at the front pleats and bring it to front from the back. You should pay attention on color combination and fabric of sarees.  Try to team up plain saree with Floral or printed dupatta or team up work saree with h plain dupatta or kanjeevaram sarees with contrast banarasi dupatta,  that works great with the royal look.

Double saree drape without showing stomach

Sonam Kapoor in Double saree drape without showing her Tummy

11. Wearing saree with Shirt or T-shirt:

Yes,  you heard it right!!  Most of the celebrities following this style by flaunting saree with trendy shirts. In spite using the routine blouse, give a try draping the saree with Full sleeved single shaded plain T-shirt or plain normal button up shirt. I would prefer standard colors such as Black, white or pastel shaded that matches with saree. you can leave the shirt as it is or tuck them inside the saree petticoat.  This style definitely looks Chic and  I am sure that you receive a lot of compliments for sure.

Trendy Shirt over Saree without showing tummy

12. Accessorize with Belt: 

Yes,  waist Accessories can help us to hide the tummy without much affords. Not necessarily it could be gold or fine jewelry waistbelt. Instead, Use matching fabric waist belt so that saree will be secured and you can arrange the saree in any way that you want. Fabric or leather or fancy belts are trendy nowadays.

Adding Belt over saree can hide your belly

13. Wear saree with Peplum Blouse

Peplum is new trend adopted recently from western wear by Indian fashion.  Team up this peplum blouse with saree to look trendy and stylish as well. This fusion-style brings the indo-western look to your traditional saree and defines the curves at waistline. So, This hot trend is followed by many celebrities nowadays. Drape loose pallu pleats and bring them underneath the blouse gives flowy look. this looks great with georgette, chiffon, and crepe fabric.  Gujarathi style draping is apt for cotton saree with peplum blouse.

Pretty Peplum designs  with saree to hide the belly

14. Wear saree with kurta/Kurti

Is it sound interesting??  Yup, you can use your kurti or kurti from a wardrobe and flaunt your saree to get the fusion look.  This contemporary style is for those who want to experiment with new look altogether or college going girls or working women and does miracle when you try at parties. Nowadays, Some of Bollywood actresses and models also spotted with kurtas/Kurti over saree.  Some latest Kurta designs of 2018 here

Celebrities with Kurta on saree without showing their tummy

Replace your saree blouse with simple  A-line kurta, slit kurta or asymmetric kurta or long button-up kurta to get the ravishing look. Either you can tuck up the kurta into saree or just leave it freely if it is a front slit kurta. Team up with proper accessories to complete your look.

15. Draw the attention elsewhere

The Key trick here is to take away the attention from your body parts by highlighting somewhere else. Few best techniques to take out the attention from you tummy by highlighting blouse sleeves, neck patterns or saree designs highlighting, or by accessories.  Using bell sleeves, shimmery blouse,  different blouse neck patterns like Collar neck, pleats neck, and etc, ruffled saree or by using fancy saree brooches can be easily enthralled.

Highlighting Blouse to takeout attention from tummy

Ruffles Saree for hiding your tummy

16. Use broad pleats at shoulder

Broad pleats at a shoulder not only gives waist coverage but also gives casual look. Just wear saree pallu in open style and take a small pleat at the border and pin it up to the blouse at the shoulder as shown below. Kajol gave us a chic look inspiration in some of her movie promotions in the crowd.

Broad pleats help you to hide your Tummy

17. Choose the fabric wisely

Choose the saree fabric wisely if you are not confident enough with your blouse. Never go for plain Sheer fabric when you want to hide belly fat. instead, grab the fabric which is thick and opaque or go with bold floral designer prints if you wish to go for net sarees. Brocade, Georgettes, organza, crepe, Banaras, Kanchipuram and kinds of cotton are your besties to hide your tummy.

Saree fabric help you to hide belly

Thick  saree Fabric types to hide tummy

18. Add Embellishments to Blouse 

Embellished blouses are trendy bridal blouses hiped nowadays.  Using Pearls, beads, strings, chains and many more embellishments are mainly concentrated at the neck or sleeves part of the blouse.  Extend those embellishments to your blouse waistline and innovate your own style to hide your tummy. Hang up fringes, Beads or pearl lines, tassels or other accessories at your blouse front and back of your waist hemline. This hanging blouse style not only extend the length of the blouse but looks great in a side view. Including pom poms also trendy not only sarees but also at blouse waistline.

Embellishes blouses at waistline to hide tummy

Trendy Tussles at blouse waist hemline to hide a belly

19. Don't Tuck your saree too low

Drape the saree at a decent height at your waist not too low or not too high.  Few ladies tuck up saree too high to cover their tummy but the end up ruining the whole saree look.  Drape the saree just below your novel at the front and pull up the sides to little high at waistline so that it forms a 'V' shape.  This perfect shape helps you to hide your tummy with a decent look.

Tucking saree at the correct place can hide your tummy

20. Coorgi Saree Draping

Coorgi saree draping is one such style that covers your entire body by wrapping the saree pallu around the upper body.  Drape the saree as usual and bring the pallu part to the front and secure the end edge of the pallu to the blouse at front. In this drape, saree pallu design is more visible with full waist coverage. Only thing is that your blouse design is not much visible except the sleeves.

Traditional Coorgi style saree draping to hide your stomach

Do's and Don'ts in  wearing Saree 

1. We may use a handful of pins to secure the saree and to get the hassle-free feminine look But, using too many of them may make you look like a pin nailed outfit!!!

2. If you are experimenting with any new drape style, make sure you know how to do it throughout and practice it beforehand to avoid last minute surprises. Never hesitate to take the help of someone who is an expert at it.  A bad drape may collapse you at the event.

3.  Don't experiment too much in saree draping. Choose the saree and draping style that suits your body shape. Never try new draping style if it is not suiting you though it is trendy.

4.  Do check the fitting of a saree petticoat. Take a better care of saree petticoat that redefines the shape of your body with the saree drape. Never tie up your petticoat too loose or too tight, prefer perfect fitting to hold the saree comfortably without slipping the pleats in between.

5. Always drape a saree after wearing comfortable footwear that comforts you while walking and make to feel confident.

6. Don't try to hide your stomach by your saree more frequently that grabs all the attention why you adjust more.

whatever and however, you flaunt the saree, wear it and carry it comfortably and confidently. Don't forget the way you carry the saree gives the elegance feel and graceful look. So,
 Ladies.. 
Try these ideas and let me know your feedback on this post and don't forget to share with your friends to avoid their myths and encourage wearing the saree and be a part of saving our culture.

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