There was a time when clothes were
worn just for covering our skin from external weather conditions. But times
have since changed. The first striking feature of a person living in today’s
society is the attire that he/she sports. Thanks to the developments in the
apparel segment world over coupled by wide publicity, most of the people are
conscious about what they are wearing. They want their character to be
projected to outside world just by means of their clothing. It is no way an
exaggeration to tell that the modern day’s clothing has turned out to be a
testimonial of a person’s thoughts!
Some clothes provide ‘identity’ to a person – like a Brahmin
can be identified with a dhoti and ‘Yagyopaveet’ (sacred thread); police
personnel, nurses, fire personnel, etc. can be identified with their respective
uniforms; and, so on. Such personnel are
recognised not by their name but purely by their attire.
Fashion has invaded every noticeable industry
and apparel industry, in particular, that we now see countless styling patterns
in whatever we wear, right from a cap to a shoe. The choice is made by a person
depending on what suites him/her the best. But this very ‘choice’ has stirred
up a hornet’s nest in today’s society.
‘Comfortability’ has
a red line:
There is a section of people that
talks about the factor of ‘comfortability’, mostly as an excuse for what they
are wearing. But comfortability has a definite limit in today’s society. None
is living in an absolutely goon-free society. This mask of comfortability has
the potential to raise the eyebrows of these goons and provoke them to cause
harm to people, particularly to, female gender. Of course, whatever clothes
that we wear should be comfortable on us but not at the cost of our very own
precious lives.
Here, the question of ‘gender’
arises because there exists gender based clothing and provocative clothing has
a definite place in it. It is wise to refrain ourselves from picking up such
clothes lest there is a trouble that one always carries in one’s pocket. Ultimately,
the clothing is a necessity but not a show of obscenity!
Clothes are
deceptive:
Clothes can conceal the deceptive
thoughts of a person. One cannot become a ‘gentleman’ or a ‘gentlelady’ merely
by their attire. They can be ascertained only by their thoughts and actions.
There are myriad of incidents where in a gentleman by dress turned out be a
real villain at the end and vice versa. So, attire is not at all a parameter to
judge a person’s temperament.
There is also another sect of
people who say, “Attire is not what
matters, but it is the attitude that matters the most”. They are right
until they do not cross the boundaries set by our society. This doctrine is
employed by some of the globally top corporates while recruiting their
employees, albeit in different forms, like conducting a personality test,
stress interview, etc... In such situations, clothing is irrelevant, it is only
how you project yourself with your thoughts and actions that matters.
Clothing is among one of the
‘basic needs’ of a human. But the need should never become one’s frailty and
that depends on one’s perspective and ideology of looking at things!
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