Does Dress Code Decides Character?

Clothes that we wear establishes our self-identity while social interaction, but it doesn't portrays a complete index of a person. Clothes are just the covers of us; the entire book is within our personality, behaviour and quality. One can get a glimpse of a person's personality by clothing not the whole look. If so was not, Indian citizens would never admire Gandhiji who used to dress in very simpler way.

Dressing varies from land to land, from time to time and therefore judging one's character on the basis of dress someone wears is ridiculous. Take a moment and think what Maa Durga epitomizes in her nine avatars. Hindu mythology limns her in different costumes but her inner-self remains the same and so a girl's character. She might be an officer, a dancer, a callgirl, a maidservant or just a mother; her uniform reflects her profession not her self. I may opt for a sensible work suit at morning and something a little more snugly in anticipation of a big night out. What will you call then? A professional worker and a hooker? Huh!

Combination of hot-pant and sleeveless top is not equals to inviting’, ‘dressing slutty’, ‘acting like a whore’, so on and so forth.

"We as social animals are free like birds!" Are we really? Our so called fast-growing digitalized society still keep their women in handcuffs. Even if she is the owner of the house,she still can’t decide the length of her skirt or the cut of her blouse. There is always an ‘expert opinion’ that she have to abide by. Pati Dev(husbands), in most cases, decide what their women will wear and how they'll wear.

Say in an occasion if we see a little girl wearing an off-shoulder dress, we compliment her with all our heart but if the same worn by a woman, its her character that gets judged. So here age becomes a factor of dress code. Once you're a grownup, your desire to wear something short and tight vanishes! Mistakenly if a girl's bra strap pops out, our conservative society with such narrow-mindedness starts throwing unanimous derrogatory statements like "Yeh larki aise kapre pehenegi to rape toh ho gahi".

No matter what you wear and how you dress, you will always be characterless in someone's eyes. So either ignore at your own peril or tell them that anything great is not judged by the decorum of dress but the strength of character. Tell them that character comes not from the dress but from deeply held beliefs.