Indian Lady In Shanghai Wear Her Mom’s Wedding Dress

Mother’s Day in China falls on the second day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar every year, but it is generally celebrated on the second Sunday in May. It is a holiday that was first celebrated regionally in Hong Kong and Macau. After the Chinese economic reform in 1979, the Chinese mainland began to embrace this holiday. This year it falls on May 12.
This article is shared by Palkit, she is an Indian lady living in Shanghai.
Wearing my mother’s 1980s wedding dress in Shanghai!

Honoring mother’s day by wearing her 1980s wedding dress in Shanghai
Being grown up in Himalayan mountains called Ladakh, in northern India, marrying a Shanghainese guy was out of imagination!. But destiny has planned something else for me and our wedding held in Ladakh India in the traditional way as well as in Shanghai with modern banquet system.
Shortly moved to Shanghai with my husband. bought many memories of Ladakh including my mother’s wedding dress that she wore 30 years back on her wedding.
This year I won’t be physically available to spend mother’s day with my mother. it is important to me to incorporate her into the special mother day since she never been out of India, so we decided to wear her wedding dress in Shanghai and capture beautiful pictures in her wedding gaon and send it to her. In fact, it was my husband idea. seemed like the perfect way to make her think she is always be missing despite me being away from home.
The dress fits on me as it is. It makes me thought how stunning she looked like during there wedding time. Thought of the reason that they brought me in this world. Did she felt the same on her wedding that I felt at my wedding? Excited at the same time nervous, happy confusions, doubts but full of expectations.
I felt so excited to wear my mother’s wedding dress in in-laws country. the moment I walk in Shanghai main city center, I was full glamorous indeed full of valiant and gallant.
I felt so beautiful inside, but also proud like the wonderful Ladakh women who came before me.
I was feeling so proud that I was admiring their strong and loving relationship and I hoped it would bring me the same luck.” And I am thanking you to make me feel in such a way.
This dress has been always worn in the mountains and it never came out of it.
It is made up of fine red silk brocade with hand-sewn buttons, luxury delicate embroidery border will indeed shine Shanghai.
The relationships I have with my mother is unlike any other we experience in our lives. She is the very first idols, teaching me about everything while on my way from childhood to marriage. And wearing the thing of someone’s who cared and love you unconditionally will make you feel a hundred times more incredible than any brand new clothes.
She said, a few days before their wedding, my father has given her 5 thousand Indian rupees to make the wedding dress and wedding ring by her choice. So although it was cream, I just knew that with its history, it was the one for me.
Tribal Ladakhi woman traditional clothing is called (Mokos) a cnemis-length gown tied at the upper waist with a belt called (kerak). on top of it locally produced Pashmina shawl or silk scarf is added to the ensemble the color of which depends on the wearer’s status.
Mokos, the women attire is divided into a formal and informal dress. A mokos made up of silk brocade is wore during occasional events adding heavy gold amulet chained with corals, turquoises, and pearls called (Kau) with weighted 3 kg turquoise headdress known as (Perak).
IIC (Indians In China) wishes you all a very happy mother’s day & thank you Palkit for sharing this with us.