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Women choose trousers over saris
By Monica Chadha
BBC News, Delhi


A survey of Indian women's preferred daily clothing has shown that more female professionals are choosing trousers over the traditional sari.
The study results show that sales of women's trousers have surged by almost 10% over the last two years.

It also shows that women are going in for more expensive brands.

The survey was carried out by Images Business of Fashion (IBoF), a retail research organisation that also publishes retail trade magazines.

'24-hour clothing'

"Let's face it, the sari is not an easy garment to deal with. Women find it difficult to work in it with all the pleats and it does tend to be cumbersome," fashion writer Hindol Sengupta told the BBC.


The study showed that younger women in the 25 to 35 age bracket were particularly likely to be buying trousers.

Mr Sengupta said that the reason why most women prefer trousers is because they need "24-hour clothing outfits" that get them through the day's engagements.

Designers also say they are being asked to design more trousers for their clients than traditional wear.

Western culture 'imbibed'

Fashion designer Nikhil Mehra says that trousers allow women to mix and match shirts and blouses.

But he also said that the Indian female mindset has changed.

"There are more professional women working now than before," he says, "and since most of them are dealing with international clients, they are bound to imbibe some aspects of western culture.


Women find it difficult to work with all the pleats (of the sari) and it does tend to be cumbersome
Fashion writer Hindol Sengupta


"This shows in their choice of clothing."

Pallavi Batra, a business executive, provides a good example of the new trend.

She says that she almost always wearing trousers to work as they are comfortable and give her a "professional look".

But the traditional Indian ladies' market is still far from dead.

The survey states that it still accounts for three-quarters of the women's apparel market in the country.


Story from BBC NEWS:
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Published: 2005/05/22 15:08:46 GMT

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Can i ask why? whre does it make sense in a warm climate like India to wear Trousers. Even in the UK, on really really hot days, i wear slawar Kameez, people wear trousers in India over Sari's? I alwatys thought this was a minority......

Jay

Just becoz you wear Salwar (In India, mostly women wear them ) doesnt mean that everyone should wear the same. If a woman feels comfortable in trousers let her do so. We don need fatwas issued to ban them, so that so called culture can be preserved.

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Jay,

An interesting series of threads from Platinum786.

Subject perhaps to the law of unintended consequences as it is substantially showing his rather medieval mindset.

For Platinum786 to think that Indian’s ought to be unhappy, ashamed or have some other negative emotions in seeing HIV patients marrying among themselves, or women enjoying the right to exercise the option of using fairness creams, or enjoying the right to exercise the option of wearing trousers, says much of what he thinks is right.

Sad that the otherwise solid British education system has failed in socialization process.

Karthik

A thread over clothes ?

* stifles a yawn *

First a thread over beauty creams and then over clothes. I wonder what's left to be popped from the stack.

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Ray

Fortuantely, in India no religious idiot can ban how a woman or a man dresses.

In Moslem countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, the interesting part is that they cover their hair (well some) with tudung but below they are in hot pants or short skirts.

It is only in Arabised Moslem nations do they make dress a huge religious talking point and at the same time have no qualms in killing the next Moslem since he is not from one's sect!

In Malaysia and Indonesia such things does not happen, but do you think that hot pants/ skirts could be responsible?

Ray

Platinum,

You have started this thread with what aim?

That Indians become nutcases and start covering themselves a loo like walking shrouds?

Our ladies require breathing space and not suffocate through a mosquito netting through which to look at the world (Burkhas have mosquito nettings to look through as if men were mosquitos with lethal bites!)

lemontree

I thought that he would discuss mini skirts, but here plat is talking about pants.."bigger yawn".

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Ray

Plats,

You wear salwar and kameez?

Must be the baggy pyjamas that are OK for daily work as also as a sleeping suit.

Great to air your privates I presume!

Karthik

Samudra

Have you been to any Indian temple Platinum ?

We were a very open society in those days.
In every temple , there is a depiction of atleast a couple of sexual acts.Or atleast nude or seminude images.

Have you read our literature ?

In a particular , and very famous work concerning literature , the inclusion of erotica is defined as the king of 'rasas' , rasas , IIRC are emotions like humour,comedy , tragedy etc. Kama or Sex is the Rasa-Raja , the king of rasas.

Sita in one particularly famous version of Ramayana says she would embrace Ram until her pain in her breasts are unbearable.Or until she feels pain in her breasts.

In one of our history textbooks for University level education , one finds a statue of Godess Laxmi , with no clothes to cover her breasts at all.

So there you go ...

People affiliated with beliefs which offer no space for plural thinking are prone to get offended by Wimmen chosing pants , not us.

Joseph

I don't understand why girls are wearing mini skirts to look sexy?

Saree is the sexiest dress anyone caould imagine 1000 times more than any bikinis west can throw

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scoop

dude, whats wrong wit u,first face creams & now clothes, what next? underwear.

platinum786

guys, the paranoia is massive....just step back, breath and chill.

Mt only intentions was to ask why people where trousers in a really hot country....that's all.

I mean when we brits got o warm countries on holiday we try to wear baggy clothes!
To keep cool, as tighter clothes make us warm.

I assumed humans all over the world react to some things the same, like hot cold etc etc...

Ray, i don't know who you associate with, but you might notice, that if you sleep in a certain set of clothes, whatever they might be, if you wear them again, they will be crease, embarrassingly creased.

Yeah, on really hot days i wear salwar kameez, why not, who's going to stop me?
its loose clothing, usually light materail, and liugt colours, so keeps you cooler than a peair of jeans and a t-shirt.

indianguy4u

platinum it will be better if u keep ur logic with urself . Indian womens know how to dress they don't need anyones advices .

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Platinum786,

Recommend you wing yourself over to Pakistan. The visa should be solvable if you claim visiting your Uncle, the one in the Police, and most importantly if he can convince his overseer that your visit is legitimate

Thereafter preach hotpants over burka's. That should be a cinch as your UK education would no doubt have told you that black absorbs heat.

I am off course presuming you number among the 45.2% Pakistani's who manged five or more grades A* to C at GCSE and equivalent.

If on the other hand you number among the 66.6 % of Indian's who manged five or more grades A* to C at GCSE and equivalent, I would be more nuanced and complex.