Pretty in polythene

Pujara has just finished making a dress — skirt and blouse — of polythene (bought from the Kalupur polythene market) infused with lots of gelatine paper for a glassy look. She’s now on the lookout for a model to showcase her `mermaid line’ which, she says, will be made from wrapping paper.

“It’s cheap,” she says. “Just cost me around Rs 300 to make it. And, of course, two days.” Insisting that her unusual work was hand-made — “no machine”, she quips repeatedly — Pujara says she has full confidence in the feasibility of the dress.

But what about the heat? “Well, you can wear it in winter,” she persists. “At least children can certainly wear it,” she says with a touching faith in the immunity of children to heat or cold.

Asked about the inspiration behind her work she says, “Kapde ka dress sab koi banata hai lekin polythene ka kisi ne socha nahin tha.” And while she prepared the transparent, and at times tanslucent, dress Kayur Desai provided the “delicate looking model for the barbie doll effect.”

Not one to sit quiet Pujara soon plans to make a dress — skirts, maxis and tops — that will be fashioned from newspapers!

So, the next time you want to read the morning news catch one of her models strutting about in a skirt that screams `One killed, two injured’.