The Guyana Divya Jyoti Association (GDJA) will next month host a pageant, which will see five young women compete for the title of Miss Guyana Sari Queen 2019.
Years ago, there had been a Miss Diwali Pageant and when it was discontinued, variations of it but none that stuck around.
A sari pageant, the organisers said, is important because from the very beginning, their fore mothers wore this traditional wear and knew the many different ways to wrap one. Pageant organizer and local designer Vikash Liliah noted that today many women of Indian descent are reaching for other Indian garments that do not entail wrapping and because of this, the art of draping a sari is being lost.
