City girls get choosy about clothes

Snehil Jaiswal / TNN / Jan 3, 2006, 03:18 IST

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While tailors are sulking, owners of shops selling readymade garments are also not very happy.

PATNA: "When I had came to Patna in the early 1990s, I was so awed by the beauty of the girls clad in salwaar-kameez that I bought a couple of these gorgeous Indian clothes for myself.
My second visit to Patna this year has amazed me more. Girls here have switched to wearing western attire... But the level of decency and the tinge of their culture in their personality are still the same.
I'm yet to see something like this elsewhere." These words of appreciation for Patna girls came from an Italian tourist, Michelle, who said girls here know the "what, where and when" of dressing.
Ask Patna girls why they've switched to western outfits, and they are one in their answer: They are more comfortable and easier to handle while travelling in autos or rickshaws.

Boot cuts, sweat shirts, cargo pants, long coats, hooded sweaters, stoles... all that's in vogue in the metropolises becomes trendy here too. Gone are the days when festivals would see girls queuing up at tailors' shops for getting salwaar-kameez stitched.
"Girls now prefer readymade garments and come to us mostly for alteration work," said Akram, a tailor in Buddha Colony, who is contemplating to open a readymade garment shop himself.

While tailors are sulking, owners of shops selling readymade garments are also not very happy. "It's becoming difficult to give girls what they're looking for," said one such owner, Sudhir.
His contemporary Amarendra added, "Girls have become more choosy about their clothes. This wasn't the case a few years back when we used to tell them what's in.
Now they tell us what are the latest trends in clothes." And mind you, Patna girls even go to the extent of searching markets in the metropolises to catch up with the latest in the world of fashion.
"There isn't much variety in terms of the stuff and cost that shops in Patna can give you. So, I prefer to pick up my clothes from Delhi or Mumbai," said Swaranjali, an MCA aspirant.
The girls do so as they feel that wearing nice, trendy clothes gives one a sense of well-being and confidence. First impression is the last impression, is what they seem to be going by these days.
"The first step towards impressing anyone is by one's dressing sense. So, I prefer to wear clothes that suit the time and the occasion," said Anoushka, a graduate from Patna Women's College.
So, if you have been unsuccessfully trying to impress your lady of late, try changing your wardrobe. After all, "clothes are the mirror of one's personality" seems to be the guiding principle of the pretty young things of Patna...

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