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Clothing has much to do with the outlook of the wearer and also portray his or her personality completely. A sober mind person will not like to wear too much funky clothes and if he or she is a rocker of the kind, the clothes will be dashing and very attractive. Some people dress themselves just to get noticed and attract the comment of the onlookers. And we talk about the social places, where people move around; this is very common practice, as we see it in the colleges, schools, offices and similar places.

The dresses of ladies or girls are very much debated in many countries, and no wonder, India is one of those countries. There are many types of wearing that ladies have, and they are perhaps one of the best in the world. Saris are one of them and are very popular in India; and ask from anyone, this is the unarguably best formal dress for an Indian woman.

Almost in all the offices and social places in India, people like that women should wear Sari. These Saris are very graceful and very much according to the traditions of Indian culture and society. These Saris come in number of colors and the styles for wearing them also differ pretty much across the whole of the India.

However, there are other regional dresses in India that are famous and prominent in the different states of India, just like the regional languages, regional traditions and other practices famous in a particular region. However, Sari has been the most famous or we can say commonly famous dress for Indian women.

However, with the change of time and the time of globalization, Western dresses and dresses worn in other European countries are become quite famous and prevalent in India. Specially, the younger generation of India is much attractive to these Western dresses. The regional dresses continue to be famous but in bigger cities, these dresses are losing their popularity and Saris are reserved for only special family occasions. However, big personalities of sports, movies, politics, and other spheres of society continue to wear these Saris or at least the regional dresses!

The trade of clothing and thread has changed drastically since the introduction of these Western dresses. There has been a large import of foreign-made clothes and the shopkeepers have changed the content of their shops from cloth to the readymade wear for different ages and genders. Local trade changed much as some MNC companies invested their money to produce the material in India itself and this also provided some employment opportunity to the Indians.

During old days in India, women used to wear the clothes that cover their whole body. But the introduction of Western culture brought about a sea change in the outlook of the girls, who started wearing jeans and tops that are indispensable in Western countries. However, it should be mentioned here that the quality of cloth is different from what was used in India, and cotton was very famous before other synthetic threads came into the market. Clothes for party wearing and other occasions of gathering has changed a lot, and people who work in offices of bigger companies and live in bigger cities have started to wear the clothes that are prominent in Western countries! Sometimes, the person who wears the regional clothing gets some visual harassment sort of thing from the people present there--they seem to say that the person is outdated and does not fit in their bill! Strange it sounds!

With the introduction of discs and other night-partying places in bigger cities, the clothing trend has changes a lot, as none like to wear Indian clothing there; for, they fear that somebody would mark them as outdated and backward! The trends and fashions change with the change of time, and people have started to change the Indian clothing also to make them look different. This helps them to make popular and sometimes people unknowingly wear them as different clothing than the Indians but at the same time having some Indian element to show to the society!

There is always an element of showing and panache in wearing clothes and there are adages to support this view, when they say that eat what you like and wear what others like! But the people who live below the poverty line, and therefore, are totally unaware about the changing fashions, don't care about what others have to say about their dressing. For them, the primary function of clothing is to cover the body from sun, heat, cold and dust, and for them every cloth looks to do that function. The trend of Western clothes and the fashions are prominent in bigger cities and the areas around them, but if you wander in villages and the interior parts of the country, you will still find that the people wear regional clothes and have nothing to do what other say!

I live in Punjab and there is only one type of wearing that is famous for women--Salwar Kammez! The women of whole of the Punjab wear these wearing and there is no household where you can't find these clothes. However, Punjab is not alien to the Western culture and girls here have started to wear jeans and pants and tops, but the regional clothes are still popular and famous. Particularly in villages, where wearing other clothes is believed to be an offending act and the elders of the family forbid their children to wear other clothes. However, for boys, there is no such particular rules as what they should wear and what not! They can choose to wear the regional clothes--Pyjama and Kurta--or the Pants and shirts. They can also wear the Dhoti, which is just like a bed sheet draped around the legs upto the waist and wearing a Kurta with it. Sometimes they just roam without wearing anything and having just the undergarments. But women are not allowed to wear anything that may look obscene to the eyes of the elders. No wonder with the introduction of Western culture, people in the cities of Punjab have allowed their children to wear whatever they like and whatever seems relevant to them according to the society they live in.
The changing of clothes have also something to do with the education of girls, as there are many professional courses that require tight-fitting clothes for the operator and engineering is one of those fields. In previous times, women hardly opted for these courses and therefore they continue to wear the clothes that were prescribed by the elders. But the machine manuals and the rules of workshops require tight-fitting clothes, and so girls started wearing these clothes. When I was doing engineering, girls with me were asked to wear tight-fitting clothes so that there are lesser chances of accidents and other causalities. And this requirement changes the thinking of girls much, as they thought that wearing different clothes for different places in the college itself does not seem to be a good idea, so they started to wear tight-fitting clothes for the whole day and the outlook changed there from! There were times when girls opted even for Mechanical engineering, and working on lathe and other machines do not allow any loose clothes with your body, for, these can be utterly dangerous!

All said and analyzed, I would again return to the Saris, for, they remain to be the choicest wearing for every girl and women. During marriage parties, you will see women and girls dressed in these Saris and nothing else. The jewelry and other materials of make-up certainly add to the grace of these Saris, and they certainly outclass the men in their wearing! Perhaps it is a mindset or something else that a woman dressed in a Sari appears more beautiful than she ever looks in other dresses. Of course the society and culture has much to do with this thought but I personally can't come out of it, and still support the Sari for its grace and supremacy!