Sthira is a Sanskrit word. It means steady. Not stuck, not slow, not standing still out of fear. Steady, the way a flame is steady when there is no wind moving through the room.
We named our festive collection after it because that is the state most of us are actually dressing for. Not a performance. Not a transformation. Just the wish to feel settled in our own skin, in clothes that do not ask us to become someone else first.
Why this name
Bodhi has always made clothing for humans in transition. Women between cities, between jobs, between versions of themselves. Festive dressing usually pushes the other way, louder, heavier, more. Sthira goes quiet instead. Soft structure. Prints that feel like a garden you have actually sat in. Colours drawn from earth and bark and late light.
What is in the collection
Co-ord sets, skirt and blouse sets, tunics with trousers, and one gown with a cape dupatta. Everything is cut in vegan silk, a fabric with the lustre and fall of silk, made without harming a single silkworm. The four botanical prints, Nigella, Cosmos, Zinnia and Dahlia, were designed in-house, petal by petal. One blouse, the Marigold, carries fine gold hand embroidery, stitched by hand, one sprig at a time.
How it is made
Every piece is cut and sewn in our own unit in Lucknow, by people we work with every day. Most pieces are made to order, in sizes S to XL and in custom measurements, so the garment is made for one person, not for a warehouse shelf. That takes a little time. Dispatch is seven days or more, and we would rather tell you that plainly than promise speed we cannot keep.
If you wear Sthira this season, we hope it gives you a little of what its name promises. Steady, not stuck.