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Creating an awareness about Lanka's dress forms By Channa Kasturisinghe One of Sri Lanka's top foreign exchange earners is the garment industry. But the industry is facing a daunting challenge with the approach of 2005 when the quota system based on the muti-fibre agreement phases out. It has been highlighted by experts in the industry in various fora that Sri Lanka should look for innovative ways of competing with other garment manufacturing countries. Creating our own brands and popularising them among our major buyers is one way of facing this challenge. Sri Lanka has a cultural heritage of over 2,500 years and it is influenced and enriched by various other cultures. The diverse range of dress forms the people of this country used symbolises this influence on other cultures. Sri Lanka can exploit this heritage towards becoming a nation which provides new creations in the fashion world. "Costumes of Sri Lanka", a book presented by Dr. K.D.G. Wimalaratne and Dian Gomes is an attempt in creating an awareness about the various dress forms of Sri Lanka among local and international readers. The authors say that the scope of this book is the evolution of Sri Lankan costumes from around the 6th century B.C with the first available records of the island's dress forms, to the post-independence era in the mid-20th century. "This book looks at the multiple determiners that dictated dress forms in different periods of Sri Lanka's history, the mutual adaptation of dress styles among ethnic communities, as well as between East and West. It looks at the impact of the Colonial dress forms in transforming Sri Lankan identities and at the politics of such adaptations," Dr. Wimalaratne said in the introduction. Dr. Garvin Wimalaratne, specialising in modern history, was appointed as the Director of the National Archives Sri Lanka in 1990. He has authored many works on history and archival sciences.Dian Goman has been the Managing Director for Sara Lee Courtaulds/ Mast Industries Inc's joint venture Slimline since 1992. Slimline has been manufacturing lingerie and leisurewear under Irish fashion names such as Victoria's Secret, British Home Stores, Marks and Spencer, Hanro and Express. Courtesy "Costumes of Sri Lanka" |
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