Sari is a typical word among the types of women's clothing you could find in many Asian countries especially like India, Sri Lanka and other South Asian countries. A sari is usually a 6 yard long piece of cloth that could be draped in different styles. A sari symbolizes a woman's status in her culture. 
It is a woman's nature to add beauty to her already beautiful looks and a sari is something that simply multiply her natural beauty. Unlike most dresses, a sari improves her inner beauty making others who see her, respect her, admire her beauty. Sari is a very charming and a unique dress. A sari is worn in such a way that a woman's natural curves and shape are exposed enhancing her feminism. The typical Indian woman, covered from head to presents a picture of modesty. The word Sari is anglicized from 'Sadi', which existed in Prakrit language As Sadia and originated from Sanskrit 'Sati' meaning a strip of clot. Sati, occurs in the 'Mahabharata' and perhaps earlier, but the nature of this garment in those times and how it was worn, is difficult to gauge accurately. It is certain that the art was highly cultivated. There are innumerable references in ancient Indian literature to the draped garment and its style.
Sari can be called an all occasion ware. If you pinup the tip of the sari and let the rest fall on your hand, it looks smart for parties. A falls stitched at the bottom of the sari make the sari more graceful. It is also embellished with gold thread work, cutwork, appliqué work, and embroidery. Indian civilization has placed a tremendous importance on unstitched fabric. The belief is unstitched fabric is pure.The success of the Sari is attributed to its total simplicity, practical comfort, and sense of luxury, a woman experiences. A sari is an outfit which reveals as much as it hides. To wear it nicely, practice is needed.
There are different types of saris to match every occasion and every mood with variable prices to match with every status in the society. No matter it is the helper or the president of the country, almost all women in sari wearing countries wear sari. Sari has been in style for over 5000 years for the simple reason of its simplicity and practical usage. This is a one piece of clothing which fits all either fat or thin, short or tall. Based on how you drape the sari, you can ingeniously conceal the extra flab or fat. The traditional 6 yard sari allows for generous pleating, and draping around the body and over the shoulders giving much comfort that you can even run a marathon in this without any problem.
There are different types of materials used for sari like cotton, silk, or synthetic fibers. There are large variety of sarees found in India which differs in their motif design, texture, substance and in many other aspects. Sari is nothing but a long drape dyed and painted with fascinating colors and pigments to attract the viewers. As to the material of choice, cotton naturally occupies the first place: followed by mixtures of cottons and silk, rayon and their blends of cottons and lastly silk with ornamented brocading. The silk Saris of southern India use heavy lustrous silk and broad borders and elaborate pallus, with contrasting colour combinations, which result in harmonious colour blends Kancheepuram, Tanjore and Kumbakonam, are the important centers of Tamil Nadu. Sangareddy and Dharmaswaram in Andhra Pradesh, Kolegal and Molkalmoru in Mysore, are also famous silk- weaving centers. 
In India , one and all state have their own traditional sort of saris. The saris have some common features even if they differ entirely in design motif and other aspects. The shared texture is meant to guard against the evil eye, misfortune, infertility, marital dispute and others. Starting from the northern India we can say that it is the center of sari export from India . Varanasi is well known as the giant sari production center of India . Khinchabs and Amru brocades are made here. The Zari in the Khinchabs almost overshadow the original silk. The Amru brocades are woven in silk, not in zari thread where a typical Amru brocade is the Tanchoi. These are woven in all shades of red, orange and yellow. Similarly, south India has Kanjeevaram saris are hand-woven silks, with unique practice in Tamil Nadu. Kornad saris are also famous here. Karnataka is known for llkul Saris which is made in e earth colors of rust, mustard, green and ochre, and woven with zari besides this Mysore crepe, Mysore silk or the Chamundi silk are also known far and wide. Muslin saris made in Kerala for bridal wear are also very chic.
Eastern India has very famous saris like Baluchari saris of Murshidabad, the dhoop- chhaon saris of Bishnupur West Bengal and other wedding saris. Baavanbuti saris of Bihar with 52 motifs and Vichitrapuri saris of Orissa is a wedding sari with ikkat; works are renowned. Pasapalli or the Saktapar are the other saris from Orissa. Equally the western India has saris like paithani or shallu with gold zari work and Astapuri saris of Maharastra is well known. The Gharchola and Bandhini viz.tie-and-dye motifs of Gujrat and Rajasthan finest saris of India . Panetar Sari is also made in the region with gold zari work.
How to wear a sari......
One end is passed twice round the waist, upper borderf tied in a strong knot, and allowed to fall in graceful folds to the ankle, thus forming a sort of petticoat or skirt.
- These are the "underneath" garments you need to wear before tying a Sari - a waist-to- floor length petticoat, tied tightly at the waist by a drawstring. You should not use elastic to hold the petticoat around the waist as the elastic might not bear the weight of the Sari. You have to wear an upper garment in the form of a tight fitting blouse that ends just below the bust. The blouse could be short sleeved or sleeveless. Its necklines can also be in different shapes and sizes.
- Now with your left hand hold the inside end of the Sari material .Tuck the top border of the inner end of the Sari into your petticoat starting at the navel, and complete one full turn from right to the left. Make sure that the lower end of the Sari touches the floor.
- Beginning from the tucked-in end start making pleats in the Sari, starting at the right, about 5 inches deep. Make about 7 to 10 pleats and hold them up together so that they fall straight and even. All the pleats should be at the same height off the floor.
- Tuck the pleats into the waist slightly to the left of the navel, and make sure that they are turned towards the left. Make sure the Sari is held there firmly. Tuck it in a little more if necessary and you can even use a safety pin to hold it in place.
- Drape the remaining fabric around yourself once more left to right, and bring it up under the right arm and over the left shoulder so that it falls to about the level of the knees.
- The end portion thus draped is the palled, and can be prevented from slipping off by fixing it at the shoulder to the blouse with a small safety pin.
Apart from the original sari, Sri Lankan women have been wearing another type named Kandyan from sari. It is some what similar to sari but differently draped. Kandyan descends from ancient queens who used to wear it as far as about the Kandyan Kingdom; last kingdom of Sinhalese in Sri Lanka before English took over the rule.
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