Alta. The colour of a bride's feet. Now on your body.

In eastern India, aal is the tree that makes alta — the deep red applied to a bride's feet during rituals and celebrations across Bengal and Odisha. The same plant. The same colour. Now woven by master weavers in Odisha into this handloom stripe dress.

This dress travelled a long way to reach you.

From the aal trees growing in the forests of Odisha to the hands of weavers who have worked this loom for generations — the stripe is not printed, not dyed after weaving. It is woven in. Thread by thread. Colour by colour. The way it has always been done.

The handloom texture is visible. Intentional. The slight irregularity in the weave is not a flaw — it is proof that human hands made this. No machine weaves like this.

A V neck dress cut for a real day. Easy sleeves. A hem that sits right. The kind of dress you wear to a meeting and straight to dinner without thinking twice. Carry a laptop. Go somewhere that matters.

Structured like a raag. Worn like a second skin.

100% naturally dyed with aal — the same plant that colours a bride's feet in eastern India. Handloom cotton woven by master weavers in Odisha. Fair trade. Made to order. One of a kind.