A participant at the T-shirt design competition. Picture by Prashant Mitra

Ranchi, May 29: ?Well-behaved women rarely make history?. That?s neither a gospel nor a war cry for female chauvinists. But if Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza could make a fashion statement with this T-shirt inscription at Wimbledon, the Mecca of lawn tennis, the Ranchiites were also not left far behind.

True there weren?t quotable quotes around. But creativity ran a riot of colours and designs at the International Institute of Fashion Designing, which held a T-shirt designing competition today.

While reputed institutions like BIT, Mesra, and leading fashion designing institutes were earlier the hubs of T-shirt designing, the art has now caught the fancy of smaller institutes as well.

Over 40 students from across the different students, who participated in the competition, were given white T-shirts and were asked to design it with a medium of their choice. And the competition saw the students trying their hands at sequins work, appliqu? work, fabric painting, cut work, and a lot others to rev up the look and the feel of the bland white T-shirts.

Vandana Patel, a first year student of interior designing, put up a catchy design displaying a model on the ramp with fabric colours. ?I am very excited about it, as I am participating in such competitions for the first time,? she said.

There were other participants who decked up the T-shirts with a variety of stones, beads and motis, arranged to add a special touch to the ordinary-looking T-shirts.

Those working with appliqu?s designed on differently coloured clothes and stitched and attached them to the T-shirts. And those who took to cut-designing, used ?patches? to the outfits and elegant look.

Many among them used bindis to design the T-shirts. Some even cut vegetables into pieces, dipped them into colours and carved out different designs with the shapes of their cut faces. And block paintings, which had earlier been features of fashion and designing in the metropolitan cities, were also among the popular painting modes. The competition will conclude tomorrow following which the results will be announced.

?These competitions might have been organised here for the first time, but we have been giving regular training to the students through courses and workshops. I am happy with the response among the students here and many more such competitions will be organised in the future,? INIFD director Sangeeta Singh said.