It is only at the time of marriage, etc. that some colour figures are painted on either side of the main entrance. Some floral border designs are also drawn on ceremonial occasions on the walls, and rangoli designs on floor. Sometimes people paste film advertisements on the walls apart from framed pictures of deities and national leaders. The windows and doors of the houses of big agriculturists, which were constructed long back, are carved. The new constructions seldom use carved items.
Plain figures are in vogue.
School-going boys wear chaddi and shirt and the girls, polka, ghaghri or frock. Tribals wear short dhotis when they come in contact with urban dwellers. In jungles their men-folk are fully satisfied with the shorter langot . In towns and kasbas , the dress pattern has rapidly changed. Mill clothes have reached interior villages as well.