Style statement or business?

Showing cleavages, or the full nude back, or the lingerie, if is a style statement, then why not go for naturism?-which is more erotic and sensual.

Recently two English style-divas were in India to teach Indians, how to dress sensibly? I object to the word sensibly, it being misnomer in Indian context. They are doing the business together science 1994 and are very successful in teaching the Englishmen how to dress sensibly. They are here to advertise their prospects of new markets and ultimately profits. For, they will be left on the testing grounds if monetary benefits are not associated. Can they go to the middle or west Asia and teach them this sensibility. I doubt, for, they will be ostracised immediately after their arrival there and bite the dust, and it will be a ‘Hornet’s Nest’ for them, if they will try their new ventures there.

George Bernard Shaw’s famous statement that-“all women are equally beautiful in the darkness of night” should by brought into this discussion. Wasn’t the prolific writer right, in exclaiming the equality? He was equivocal on the equality of beauty too. Although, it may have caused an ‘end of road’, for the various beauty pageant contests.

Indian attire-‘Sari’ still boasts of being the most sensual women’s wear worldwide, and it competes with the best in the business. But there is no transparent show of nudity in this attire.

They claim to have taught us the wear-sense, but, is it so? In my opinion they have invented plethora of designs to give the women more womanish looks and scores of options to choose from, for more exposures. Aren’t the so called stylists are culprit of evoking lust in men, and more victims of sexual abuse in the countries like India by the surprise rise in the hot-couture?

But, there is another aspect of this subject too.

Time, aided by the burgeoning world wide web-‘the internet’- has brought the change at a greater speed than expected. And a huge economy depends upon the new traditions-or clothing sense. We are richer by the options, and poorer by the total covering area by these cloths now. Before, the mantilla (the dupatta) acted as a firewall against the hawkish onlookers? - Thus thwarting a looming wickedness. Now the whole contour of the body are on the show, - and thus open to invites for an onslaught- without any such clothing. But, ask any poor in India (about 50% of the total population) about this change and hot- couture. And the answer will be-“we anyhow cover our body, why to think for the costumes when our stomach is empty most of the time”?

India still beholds its traditions to its heart immensely. And is at the centre of its socio-political establishment with the varying culture and traditions. There is a fashionable class vying for these changes, but there are the obstinate people too, against this change. Let them do their business and flourish, and we behold our traditions changing with a slower speed, with the firewall ‘ON’, as the pinnacle of this dressing sense and modification will be-‘nudity’. Which off course, we do not wish to see too soon, and, in open.