10 Saree Jacket Styles for 2016 

Up your saree game for 2016 with these saree jackets. 

1. Plain Elbow Length Sleeve 

For a quiet and casual occasion or office wear, select jackets with a simple and plain elbow length sleeve, with a small border for the sleeves. 

2. Classic Puff Sleeves 

If carefully stitched, the basic puff-sleeved jacket can look great. Wearing a puff-sleeved jacket with the traditional Kandyan saree (Osari) gives a feminine look. 

3. Beeralu Designs 

Beeralu lace is one fabric that’s always trending no matter how many decades it has been since it was first used due to its intricacy and beauty. One of the best ways to wear a beeralu lace jacket is by going full-sleeved. 

4. Net Designs 

Net blouses look fashionable and sensual. Net fabric can be incorporated into the blouse in different ways through the sleeves, neckline or back. 

5. The High Neck 

High neck jackets add a royal look to ethnic attire. When wearing a high neck blouse skip wearing necklaces and choose to wear heavy earrings instead. 

6. Round Cut Out Back Design 

Intricate stone work or bead work outlining the cut-out back gives the jacket a stunning look and extra glamour is added with a tie back tassel. 

7. Artistic Sleeves 

In the age of fashion revolution and mix and match, jackets of various combinations are all the rage. 

8. The Halter Neck 

To stun the evenings, choose the glamorous and versatile halter neck and show off your back! 

9. Backless 

Even the most casual chiffon saree can go from 0 to 100 when worn with a backless blouse. 

10. The Corset Style Jacket 

Also called the bustier blouse, the corset blouse is devoid of shoulder cover and sleeves all the way up to the torso to define the contours of the waist. If you are wearing a net material saree, team it with a corset blouse and a long, beaded necklace. 

Duleeka Ratnayake graduated from the University of Moratuwa with a Bachelor of Design and  has been producing custom made batik sarees inspired by nature and diverse colour palattes for 5 years and opened her own store, redpierrot on 17/4A, Stratford Avenue, Kirulapone, one and a half years ago. 

Contact Number: 0713397611, 0112504545 

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By Upeksha Hettiarachchi 

Sketches by Duleeka Ratnayake