He is not a colour you see on a mundu every day. That is the point.
This is the Kaithari double mundu in a dusty mauve-purple kara that sits between lavender and grape, smoky and cool, with kasavu lines running through it that bring warmth to a colour that might otherwise stay quiet. He is broad at the border, unhurried in the body, four metres of ivory handloom cotton that gathers with the weight only a double mundu carries.
That particular blue-purple the flower holds at dawn before the day fully arrives. On ivory handloom, against a white Kerala morning, it reads as one of the most considered colours in this collection.
He is for the man who has worn every other shade of this garment and arrived, finally, here. Wear him with a white cotton kurta with simple ivory buttons and let the mauve at the hem be the only statement. Or a raw silk shirt in pale cream — he holds both. No heavy jewellery. Perhaps a single ring. The kasavu has already done the work.
Handwoven in Balaramapuram. Double mundu — 4 metres. The colour that rewards a second look.