First 'reversible' silk saree displayed

CHENNAI: A city-based saree firm on Thursday released a garment that it claimed was the country's first "reversible silk saree".

Costing a whopping Rs 68,650, the saree designed and developed by RmKV has four pallus, four matching borders and two bodies on either side.

Displaying the saree at a showroom, the firm's managing director K Viswanathan said 50 people worked for six months to make the saree. "Two years of hard work by our research and development team has made this possible by re-inventing the weaver's loom," he said.

The "reversible saree" was woven in a specially created loom.

RmKV had recently created another silk saree that it claimed had 50,000 colours.