If one were to know how adaptable and assimilative people of a culture are, you just need to look into their cultural traits of present times. These cultural traits encompass food habits, living habits, daily routines, clothing worn, music and art, architectural influences and others. Perhaps, the most visible on a larger canvas are the clothing habits. How do most of the people of a country dress up is an indicator of how far the culture has gone into preserving its own clothing style and how far has it been able to hold on to its own ethnic tenets of dressing up. When talking specifically about the Indian dresses, there is no doubt that the clothing kaleidoscope is extremely diverse. While the traditional clothing is still visible in the form of dhoti-kurta for men and sarees for women, the western clothing such as tops, jeans and dresses for women and shirts and trousers for men are also worn by a large part of the population. Besides, there are regional influenced of the traditional clothing styles. So, you have typical styles of wearing sarees in Maharashtra and Gujarat on one hand and salwar suits of Punjab on the other. A modern edge is also given to the ethnic clothing in the form of modern saree cum gowns, dhoti sarees and a lot other variations in sarees and blouses for the women of modern era.
While the visibility of all forms of clothes for men and women is quite ubiquitous, there is no doubt that the different forms and styles of dresses have been adopted with passion by the people of this country. The British era introduced shirts and pants for women and long dresses and gown is still fancied today and bought on stores, online and offline, with great passion. Designers have invented the fusion clothing taking some elements of both the ethnic and the western garments to carve out newer clothing which is widely accepted. What to talk of the western wear, even the Chinese wear element, in the form of the front buttons and mandarin collars to name a few, have been gaining currency for a long time. In addition, there is a fine tradition of wearing the Islamic clothing in the form of abayas and kaftans among the women while the modern kurta and above-ankle pajamas are also gaining popularity. With this level of acceptance of different types of clothing styles, there is no denying the fact the people are largely adaptive and assimilative. This is an indicator of non-orthodox bindings and open mindsets when it comes to clothing.
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