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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&utm_source=google_sok&utm_medium=shopping&utm_medium=cpc&country=IN&utm_term=&utm_creative=309576439399&utm_campaign=Manyavar_Smart_Shopping_India_2018&utm_device=m&utm_content=SEM&utm_adgroup=Smart_Shopping_India&utm_placement=&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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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">
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