Picturesque Nepal . beginto arrive, as the sun lights up the scene, manymen in various bright attires, followed bybevies of women and girls in the gayest ofrobes. Mixed bathing is the order of the day,and all is decorum, the robing and disrobingbeing performed in that clever manner onlyto be accomplished by the Oriental. Soonthe crowd grows thicker, and the gay andgorgeous scene—duplicated in the ripplingwaters of the Baghmatti—becomes a kaleido-scope of bright colours. It seems almostimpossible to separate the picture into itsindividual particles, but it may be sees a class of S
Picturesque Nepal . beginto arrive, as the sun lights up the scene, manymen in various bright attires, followed bybevies of women and girls in the gayest ofrobes. Mixed bathing is the order of the day,and all is decorum, the robing and disrobingbeing performed in that clever manner onlyto be accomplished by the Oriental. Soonthe crowd grows thicker, and the gay andgorgeous scene—duplicated in the ripplingwaters of the Baghmatti—becomes a kaleido-scope of bright colours. It seems almostimpossible to separate the picture into itsindividual particles, but it may be sees a class of Sadus, men dressed fromhead to foot in garments of blood-red, andanother religious order is distinguished bythe more usual saffron colour. A fakir strollsby nearly unnoticed, although clothed in astartling overall of leopard skins. Some of theboys are most vividly garbed, and an urchinin a combination of artistic purples catchesthe eye. But gay as the men are dressed, theyare completely put into the shade by the. GENERAL VIEW OF PASHTATTI, THE IMAGE OK THE sficred ri\er runs through n picturesque rorge at this sjot. SOME EXTRAORDINARY COSTUMES 89 brilliancy of the womens costumes. Onecolour scheme, so fashionable as to be repeatedseveral times, is a bright green zouave jacket,a pink sari, and orange skirt. Deep purpleconfections are also much in vogue, as also acombination of crimson and saffron, while alldecorate the hair with natural or artificialflowers. But what may be called the nationalcostume of the Nepali women of the upperclasses is so striking as to need a specialreference. Several groups clothed in thisstartling fashion loiter near the ghat and thenpass on into the inner precincts of the varioustemples. The general colour of one of thesecostumes may be anything bright, from alemon yellow body and pink skirt to greenbody with purple skirt, but it is the cut ofthe garments which makes them so remark-able. The upper part is of a comparativelynormal design, b
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