Red as part of a wedding dress appears in expressions like "laal dupatta " " laal chunaria "

Browsing for "Red dupatta " yields some articles / publications:

(red as symbol of love/romance seems to be the idea)

"In some culture, bride may choose red, maroon which is the symbol of love."

Development of Wedding Costume from Bengal to Bangladesh

Sharmin Shoukat* , Md. Ariful Islam

Fashion Design & Technology Department, BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sharmin-Shoukat-2/publication/311952430_Development_of_Wedding_Costume_from_Bengal_to_Bangladesh/links/5864bdff08ae8fce490c17f1/Development-of-Wedding-Costume-from-Bengal-to-Bangladesh.pdf

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Beneath the Red Dupatta : an exploration of the mythopoeic functions of the 'Muslim' courtesan (tawaif) in Hindustani cinema

Khoyratty, Farhad

https://ddd.uab.cat/record/149020

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"laal dupattaa" = red dupattaa

is a frequent expression in romantic bollywood songs

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 7:33 PM Asko Parpola via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

In the Vedic soma rite connected with sorcery called śyena ‘falcon' and described in Lāṭyāyana-Śrautasūtra 8,5, the officiating priests wear red turbans and are dressed in red clothes. This and related rites of sorcery belong to the archaic vrātya tradition of the Atharvaveda and Sāmaveda. Cf. my book “The Roots of Hinduism” (2015), chapter 12, and p. 134.

With best wishes, Asko Parpola

> On 25. Nov 2022, at 15.19, James Hegarty via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> A former student has asked about me about the origins of red dresses for Hindu brides…
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> I know utterly nothing about this. Does anyone either know something about this or know of an article or two that I might (a) read myself and (b) pass on to the former student in question?
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> James Hegarty
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