Fashion is an aspect of a culture, which keeps changing with the evolution of tastes, ones needs, comfort as well as the influence of other cultures. Fashion in Bengal too evolved in its own pace. 
The Bengali fashion has always hovered around “Dhotis” for men and “Sarees” for women. In the yester years gentlemen belonging to the upper strata of the society used to wear an additional

unstitched piece of cloth called “Uttorio”,  while the women used a piece of cloth called “Orna” for veiling their head. The “Dhoti” in those days was much smaller in length and breath and it never reached below the knee but the way of arranging it remains the same. The style of wearing the saree was more or less the same as today. The infants in those days used a very short “Dhoti” that could only reach the knee or otherwise wore a tight thigh hugger.

TEXTILES_______________________________________________
Bengal was the manufacturer of the finest and the costliest textiles. Fine cotton and silken clothing were the main attraction of the women in those times. The silk fabric was known as “Khouma Vastra” and a fine jute fabric was known as “Pattamber”. The silken clothing was referred to as “Kousheo Vasan” in that era. Fine, light and transparent cloth

called the “Anshuk Vastra” studded with jewels earned fame among the rich class. Not only did these fine textiles become popular in Bengal but they were also a piece of intriguing beauty in other states of India as well as abroad. The name of this fabric has also been mentioned in Kautilya’s “Artha Sashtra”, Peripras’s “Volumes of