Indian fashion magazines today reflect the dynamic mix of tradition and fashion in Indian women's dress. Advertisements for Western style dress, salwar-kameez ensembles, saris, and other traditional styles of dress, in a wide variety of fashionable textile colors, prints, and surface designs, vie for the attention of Indian women. Activities and the Display of Skin Practices regarding how much of her body a woman covers or leaves visible varies along many dimensions such as age, economic and marital status, or activity. Religion and geographical region vary the effects of these factors across India. Some activities a woman engages in are associated with increased exposure of the body.
Manual labor is the most significant factor increasing body exposure.
While upper class women make temporary adjustments to the drape of their saris to facilitate household chores, working women tend to drape their saris at least above the ankles and often much higher. These mannequins are wearing two forms of the same sari. The second mannequin wears the Koppla Velam Sari, a slight variation of the Rajim sari. It is worn by agricultural laborers in Eastern Andhra Pradesh. When doing hard labor in the fields, the drape of the mundanai is changed to facilitate this labor.