The beautiful home and garden was the venue to which Badra Wijesena invited her many friends to tea. As she believes in entertaining in style, she split her tea parties into two days, one week after each other.
When ever these fashion conscious women entertain those who gather too are in the same category, and as a result on these occasions they live upto the image. Leading the group was Badra herself, who on the first evening favoured a western style and wore a long top in a print in shades of mauve and white, which had a flowing hemline in points she teamed with pink pants, silver court shoes and long diamond eardrops.
Tucked in her hair was a cluster of mauve flowers. The next time she went for a more ethnic look and wore a black salwar top exquisitely embroidered in thread work in shades of orange and olive green with flecks of white in it. Scattered were dots in the same colours and in a perfect complement to the outfit she wore a necklace of a large cabochon fade in a orange shade set with diamonds and jade leaves on gold.
A sleeveless hip length top in red raw silk had a yoke at the neckline worked in dazzling white and red, for Ramani Pelpola to team with slacks in the same colour. Long shoulder length earrings in red, in different tones made her ornaments. The print of roses on the black chiffon Kandyan saree Swarna Ameratunge wore was like a English garden in summer. Her blouse was in a shade of deep wine and a paddakam necklace of rubies and pearls made her jewellery. Sriyani Samarasinghe on the first day, combined a cutaway deep necked top a shimmer with silver sequins on an unusual tone of red, with black pants.
Once again her long eardrops in red and white stones, was of shoulder length. The feminine top of chiffon in a contemporary print in a swirl of design, Kalpana Wijesinghe wore was in a fusion of colour, ranging from pinks to oranges and shades of brown, spliced with white. Her slacks were in coffee brown, and she were long drop earrings of brown hued stones. Another top which was in exciting range of colours was the choice of Nilakshi Samaranayake.
The colours in the print was in red, turquoise, and smoky black, she wore with a dainty pendent and crescent shaped earrings. A vivid shade of cyclamen made the salwar kameez Thanchi Coomaraswamy wore. The entire salwar and the borders of the dupatta were delicately embroidered. A pendent of diamonds made her ornament.
A long green kameez in traditional style which was sleeveless though, was Nimmi Kumaranayagam’s choice to wear with green churidars and a handloom shawl in a shot orange woven at the two edges in stripes of ochre, and a muted green, with a deep green edge making a narrow ribbon border along its length. These were events at which can be seen best of trends, and styles, ranging from the east to the west in fashion. -Sunday Island
