WHEN
ONE CHANCE REMARK CHANGED LADIES
OUTFITS.
There was this friend of
mine. 'Was' because I am not sure where he is. We were class mates in PG
college. A little background will not be out of place. He was working as a
goods clerk in the Railways. Our college shift was 7 to 10 in the
morning. After college he would go to work. He fell in love with
neighbor's daughter, proposed and married her against her parents wishes.
All his hopes of hefty dowry fell through. Not only that, since she was the
only child, she was going to inherit her parent's wealth, this also went fut, as the parents disowned her.
She was a teacher in a college
and he also wanted to be in the same profession so that they could stay at one
place. His Railway job was transferable. That's why he wanted to do PG.
His perseverance paid and he joined as a lecturer in a college. After college
we lost on each other.
His wife was good looking
and fashionable. He would narrate her shopping spree and his following her in
her shopping expeditions. She would not buy a Saree till the salesman at
the counter did not unfold all his stock. She would move from one shop to other
and at times may not buy anything or buy the very one she saw for the first
time at the first shop.
One day he told her -
darling no one really cares what you wear. The only way you can draw attention
is by dressing scantily or not at all. As you can guess she got furious and he
had to sleep on couch for a month.
But somebody overheard
him and happened to be a designer of ladies garments. He came out with blouses
low from top and high from bottom, low cut sleeveless kurties, low skirts
and leggie. All his designs needed less clothe,
less stitching and less money. In the bargain the clothiers
lost, the tailors lost but the mosquitoes gained. Nonetheless, the
fashion stayed and today the less she wears, the prettier she looks or so she
thinks. There has been lot of improvement in competitive designing for ladies
aiming at exposing front and back cleavage.
One chance remark can
change the world.
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