Also known as Barabandhi, Daura
thumb|150px|Bagalbandi shown here with tied-flaps, Bagalbandi term literally translates to "tied on the side". Bagalbandi or Barabandhi or Daura is a male upper garment ; it is a typical shirt that ties on the side. It is similar to a waistcoat in style. It has a wide section in the front that overlaps the other side, similar to a double-breasted coat with strings attached to fasten the garment. Bagalbandi is an ethnic costume of the Indian subcontinent; the garment is more associated with Hindi belt, Gujarat, Maharastra, Nepal, along with other regions. thumb|an untied Bagalbandhi ==Etymology
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thumb|150px|Bagalbandi shown here with tied-flaps, Bagalbandi term literally translates to "tied on the side". Bagalbandi or Barabandhi or Daura is a male upper garment ; it is a typical shirt that ties on the side. It is similar to a waistcoat in style. It has a wide section in the front that overlaps the other side, similar to a double-breasted coat with strings attached to fasten the garment. Bagalbandi is an ethnic costume of the Indian subcontinent; the garment is more associated with Hindi belt, Gujarat, Maharastra, Nepal, along with other regions. thumb|an untied Bagalbandhi ==Etymology== Bagalbandi (Hindi: बगलबंदी, Bagalbandi, Marathi: बाराबंदी, Barabandi, Nepali: दौरा, Daura, Bengali: পার্শ্ব বন্ধ, Parshwo Bondho) is a combined colloquial word, Bagal suggests 'side of the body' and bandhi or bandi implies to bands or 'to tie.'
==Regional styles == thumb|16th century depiction of a Kannada wedding ceremony in the Códice Casanatense. The Kannada men are shown wearing an Angi. In Hindi belt, Rajasthan and Gujarat it is worn with dhoti, turban and forms part of traditional male costume in the region. In Hindi belt apart from dhoti, it is also worn with tight fitted trousers called churidar or salwar. Like most common traditional dresses with minor alterations it has also become a popular style among females today.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).