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we are in Western wear.</p><h2 id="dca1">Men’s clothes</h2><p id="1c40">Men wear shirts and trousers, usually tailored. With belts. Belts give some gravity to the simple shirt and trousers. <b>Belts are the new ties</b>. Only salesmen and medical reps wear ties. They make me cringe, they try so hard.</p><p id="314e">In the photo collage above my brother the American(!)is not wearing his shirt tucked in. My father, God bless him, is perfectly turned out. You can be sure those pockets have money in the leather wallet and coins in the coin zipper, and a big white handkerchief in the other pocket. Don’t miss his belt.</p><p id="785f">For weddings men used to be bare-bodied and wear an angavastram, a towel-like upper garment, with a dhoti, a wrap or tie lower garment. Here my good friends Naveen and Mrudula have sent their Gowri Puja Festival photos. Naveen is wearing a silk angavastram with a dhoti. The golden Zari border on the angavastram declares his status. Men’s clothes are usually white, and the Zari borders small.</p><figure id="6e01"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><figure id="f000"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption>Naveen and Mrudula in traditional festive wear</figcaption></figure><p id="5a71">Mrudula is the girl in grey in the photo in Goa. Here she is in a blue Kanjivaram silk. Each part of India has its own kind of silk. Benaras, Kanjivaram and Mysore silks come from their own silk towns: Varanasi, Kanchipuram and Mysuru. Nowadays men have become very shy and don’t want to expose their chests. Just like women! So they have ditched the old system and have started wearing shervanis. When I carried shervanis for my cousins’ children, the lower garments were elasticized, no zipper. Much safer that way isn't it. The children were below 10.</p><figure id="98a3"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption><a href="https://www.manyavar.com/Fashionable-Blue-Kurta-Set-S952509-339?utm_source=google&amp;utm_source=google_sok&amp;utm_medium=shopping&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;country=IN&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_creative=309576439399&amp;utm_campaign=Manyavar_Smart_Shopping_India_2018&amp;utm_device=m&amp;utm_content=SEM&amp;utm_adgroup=Smart_Shopping_India&amp;utm_placement=&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxOaE0P3C6wIVCh4rCh1NmQnHEAQYHiABEgK_APD_BwE">Manyavar</a> sherwani collage</figcaption></figure><p id="51a3">Now, who in India would wear completely casual clothes? Like t-shirt and jeans? or shorts? People who cannot afford clothes, or Bollywood stars trying to show off their muscles. Such people will be riding bicycles, or they will walk to a bus, if they can afford the fare. They will never be in a car, because a car is a very big step. Barefo

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ot — slippers — bicycle — scooter — car. I don’t mention shoes because nobody who needs to walk to work will wear shoes. When you get rich enough to buy a scooter, alongside you also buy shoes.</p><p id="4c74">Ordinarily, I am in PPE, or before Corona I used to wear a white apron, so I am not even a qualifier among well-dressed women. Even a person like me who owns only one lipstick is so bothered by appearances.</p><figure id="43ec"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption>Me in PPE, on an ordinary day and before Corona in a white apron at work.</figcaption></figure><p id="fa25">When we saw the Jacob Blake video, we in India couldn’t believe that a person in a white sleeveless undershirt(called a baniyan or a ganji) was sitting in a car. White sleeveless undershirts are worn by manual laborers. They won’t even be invited to sit in their employers’ cars if they dress like that. If a gardener is sick, and has to be ferried to the hospital in his employers’ car, he will wear a full sleeved shirt.</p><p id="8925">Dress for your car drives.</p><figure id="a1e4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><figure id="3154"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption>Photo by author. Illustration made by Mr.<a href="http://+91 92636 34061"> Subodh Kumar Pandey,</a> Tata Motors, my root canal patient, at my request.</figcaption></figure><p id="49ce">Thank you for reading. 🙏🏻</p><p id="c9dd">Here’s a link to an article I wrote in Indian English.</p><div id="e2be" class="link-block"> <a href="https://link.medium.com/Xa6Ql2xbt9"> <div> <div> <h2>Fancy New Threads</h2> <div><h3>You just saw the article on how to wear smart clothes for driving, dress like Robert De Niro so the Police don't shoot…</h3></div> <div><p>link.medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*Sln5dfGjntYafSsU.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="5ddc" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/fashion-is-instant-language-98bdba1aeec6"> <div> <div> <h2>Fashion is instant language</h2> <div><h3>Anybody who isn’t Zuckerberg shouldn’t wear a hoodie</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*[email protected])"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Darkroom: The First App To Install On macOS Big Sur

The Cheap Lightroom Alternative

Darkroom On macOS Big Sur

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated by Darkroom or sponsored by any sorts.

If you have used Darkroom on iOS Before then you probably have an idea of what I am talking about.

I stumbled upon Darkroom when I was navigating the iOS Appstore looking for a photo editing App that is 1) Capable and 2) Doesn't require a monthly subscription. After going through installing and deleting many of them, I stumbled on Darkroom.

The application on iOS was straight forward as any other photo-editing application; import a photo, then start using the sliders left and right as you adjust the colour to your taste. Having tried other iOS Photo editing apps, I would say I didn’t find any unique feature that wasn’t in any other app, aside from the fact that it just works! and it doesn’t need to a monthly subscription! You can just purchase it once and it will now work across iOS and macOS!

The macOS App:

Darkroom on macOS Big Sur

As you can see, it is fairly simple UI, you start by adding photos to your library, which can sync across devices and you start moving along the sliders as you would do with Lightroom for example.

What I did love about it, is the how the library layout was made making it easy to drag and drop photos to arrange your albums, it felt more or less like a native macOS app. I think it more or less reflects what Majd Taby’s ( Darkroom CEO) wrote in his article:

Respect the platform: The Mac is the platform with a rich heritage, and we pay our due respect. The best apps offer nuanced mouse and keyboard support, have deep drag and drop integration, and provide access to the Finder. The Mac is a platform of flexibility and depth.

Streamline the edit and management experience: Importing photos takes time and effort and creates a duplicate library on your Mac. Worse, you may have to pay twice for storage. Our deep iCloud Photo Library integration means that from launch, all your photos are instantly available. iCloud support is deeply integrated at all levels of the app, and you can favorite, hide, delete, and export without creating a shadow library.

Be familiar: Designing mobile interfaces for the past 12 years has taught us that if you can’t find or use a feature it’s worthless. Pro-grade tools have often lagged behind consumer tools in design and usability, but we believe that’s a false tradeoff. The best app should be familiar, recognizable and friendly. We have made pro-grade photo editing as fast and easy as browsing photos, and our Apple Design Award recognizes that achievement.

The iOS App:

Darkroom on iOS

Again, fairly straight forward, and it contains basically all the desktop functionality as you would expect it. The iPad obviously makes your layout similar to the desktop while the iPhone one can make you feel cramped, But that’s understandable given the screen size difference.

So Why I Am Writing About It?

One main reason, is that it is one of the few clean well-polished photo-editing application that you can still have all its functionalities with a one-time purchase. Being one of many who can’t justify forking out $10 every month for Lightroom just for the sake of editing 4–5 photos every month, I found this app the best of both worlds, having more functionality than your stock iOS Photos app, while not having for out a piece of your salary every month. I still miss some of the brushes and gradients from Lightroom, which I hope will be added in the future!

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