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The wear calendar

99 festivals, weddings seasons and craft days of the year, with what is worn on each. Dates are worked out afresh every day; those marked "about" follow the moon or local calendars and can shift by a day.

Kind of dayAllFestivalsHarvestWedding seasonHandloom and craft daysReligious daysSeasonal wearNational daysRegional days

November 2026

about 17 Nov to 16 Dec 2026Agrahayan, a Bengali wedding monthAgrahayan, from mid November to mid December, is one of the favoured months for Bengali weddings, with the red bridal saree and the yellow of gaye holud. about 20 Nov 2026Dev Uthani Ekadashi, the start of the wedding seasonOn Dev Uthani Ekadashi Vishnu wakes, the months without weddings end, and the trousseau season of north India begins.

December 2026

about 16 Dec to 14 Jan 2027Kharmas, the month without weddingsFrom mid December to mid January, when the sun is in Sagittarius, many Hindu families hold no weddings, and saree shops turn to winter and trousseau stock.

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The weekly drape

Every Monday: seven sarees you may not know, what is being worn this week, and one drape explained step by step.