Dressing Style and Sensitivity

                          Photographs are one of the sweetest, swiftest and spontaneous instrumentality for kindling nostalgic memories and euphoria.  They avail us with the utility of reliving those moments from the past and bring an instant sparkle on our mind about the related events. Recently I got to glance at the very limited photographs which I have had shot during my college days, and the momentary response inside me is not dissuading.

                             

                            With all good memories those photographs brought back to me, it did also pull out some sort of lowly mood bombarded with self disdain for a few people I had shared them with. A comment said, “Oh my badness!!!! How could I be roaming around unashamed wearing LUNGI those days? ” Another sarcastic comment claimed, “I wish I did not wear a shirt this loooong. I am surprised to see my parents’s confidence in the prospects of my fast bodily growth.”  The irony here is that these people had a displeased image for their own past based on their current life style and exposure.

                         This impulse drives me to initiate a debate-which I put as a set of questions below- on the relevance and prominence of, and need for cultural sensitivity and tolerance in an era of globalization and attendant connected living. Because in today’s world, we do encounter people from different regions,States,race, economic status espousing their consequent cultural identity.

                       

                       I am an ardent believer of the Constitutionally guaranteed values like liberty of thought, expression etc as enshrined in the Indian Constitution. So expressing one’s opinion on cultural preferences like his/others dressing doesn’t hurt me but the underlying bias behind such an expression does so.

So what does appropriate and good dressing mean to you?

How do you qualify what is good?

Whats your take on your own dressing style now and a few years back? Do you see any change? If so where did this change come from?

What’s your opinion on the dressing pattern of Cinema actors attending local/global cine-events? Do you see any economic class-difference between you and them?

Do you judge people based on their dressing? Does this judgment have a spill-over effect on your interactions with the concerned person?

If somebody is seen with “poor and inappropriate” dressing sense, do you tend to tell them about that? Or will you be carrying a bad impression about them without letting them know? 

Do your family members- Parents & Siblings- subscribe to your notion of good dressing? 

What’s your take on their dressing?

Why do you think we have a crowded RangaNathan Street in T-Nagar, and luxurious global brands studded Phoenix market City both in Chennai?

Do you know the economic identity associated with global retail market giant Wal-Mart?How would you evaluate a person who is a regular patronizer of Saravana Stores in T.Nagar,Chennai?

Do you look out for the brands of the outfits people wear? How connected are you to person wearing the same brand as yours?

How irritated are you with the people wearing duplicate version of outfits of the same brand you flaunt?

Have you observed the differences in the dressing style of politicians from the southern and the northern part of India? Why are they markedly different? Does it represent anything symbolically?

Do you see any casual relationship between dressing style and the caste group of a person? If so how did you grow such attitude, and how true/unbiased is your evaluation?  

How does religiously determined dressing pattern influence you?