bridal outfit

Decked up in her red bridal outfit, with henna on her hands and vermilion powder in her hair parting, the bride will do the customary seven rounds around the sacred fire, she tells me on the phone from her home.

“We proactively shut down all production and stores even before the official lockdown — it meant going from 100 percent capacity to zero percent in a matter of days,” said Mr. Mukherjee, who dresses about 4,500 brides a year, with prices per bridal outfit ranging from $2,500 to $23,000.

Beyoncé was criticized for wearing what looked like a traditional Indian bridal outfit; Amy Schumer, in turn, was criticized for making a parody of Beyoncé’s Formation, a song about the black female experience.

“Coming to a film festival without U.S. distribution is a bit like dressing up in a bridal outfit, going to city hall and hoping someone will propose,” Miller said.

Already she understood public tact, saving clothes-ration cards for the bridal outfit, which, since 2,000 pearls were sewn in, must have been a truckload of coupons.