:Chaubandi Cholo

{{Short description|Type of traditional Nepali women's clothing}}

Chaubandi Cholo is a type of traditional Nepali women's clothing.{{cite news|url=http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3055539&partId=1|title=Collection Online|publisher=Brithsh Museum|access-date=13 November 2016}} It is often cotton in a red or white geometric print, but can differ between regional cultures.{{cite web |author= |date=26 Jul 2010 |title=The Finest 100 of Nepal |url=http://ecs.com.np/features/the-finest-100-of-nepal |access-date=21 Dec 2016 |website=ECS Nepal |publisher=ECS Media |quote=A Thakali woman may dress in a red chaubandi cholo and has a distinct style of wearing the saree by wrapping a black shawl over it, with a dark green patuka around her waist. |location=Lalitpur, Nepal}}

Traditionally, parents and maternal uncles give a set of traditional clothes (sari or Guniu-Cholo) to girls before they reach the age of 8 years. These are usually given on special occasions, like pujas, Dashain, or another auspicious day. The girl is given a set of tradition clothes that include Guniu-Choli, fariya and patuka, along with accessories like lachi and sir-bandi. The other members of the family put tika on their forehead and bless them with gifts and cash. The blouse is typically wrapped and can have an open or closed neck. It is often worn with a sārī-like wrapped skirt.{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CUWIC-vigbkC&dq=what+chaubandi+cholo+in+nepal&pg=PA47|title=Caste Language and Dress|year=1998|publisher=APH Publishing Corporation|isbn=9788170249627|access-date=13 November 2016}}{{Citation |last=Besky |first=Sarah |year=2013 |title=The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India |publisher=Univ of California Press |issue=47, California Studies in Food and Culture |page=152 |isbn=9780520957602 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RcIBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA152 |access-date=21 Dec 2016 | quote=If one were to visit Chowrasta on a day in October between 2007 and 2009, one might mistake the scene for something out of a Darjeeling GI film: throngs of Nepalis, most of them tea plantation workers, most of them women, all dressed in "traditional" Nepali clothing[.] *** For Darjeeling Gorkhas, this meant chaubandi cholo for women and daurā sural for men. A chaubandi cholo is wrapped and tied top top with a sārī-like wrapped skirt bottom, usually madeout of cotton in a red and white geometric print. }}

Wearing the chaubandi cholo as traditional wear has been encouraged by certain nationalist groups in Nepal and West Bengal.{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081015/jsp/siliguri/story_9968368.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912061333/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081015/jsp/siliguri/story_9968368.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 12, 2011 |title=Faces blackened after dress code defiance |author= |date=14 Oct 2016 |website=The Telegraph |location=Calcutta |access-date=21 Dec 2016 |quote=For women, the traditional attire is chaubandi cholo }}