Nip-slip Shows of Fashion

When God made us, he gave us only the body. We named it naked or nude. You blame it on Satan or the dimensional development of human brain, men / women hated the nature’s gift and started covering it. He could have started covering it to save him from shivering cold or scorching heat or from some embarrassments.

In India, till the time Moguls invaded us, men or women never had the custom of covering their torso. This means, we used to wear only clothes on hip. Even this will be a piece of cloth with no fasteners like button or zip or threaded knots. It was simple piece of cloth wound over our body tied at the ends. This is the reason we could find that in all our temples, the sculptures are depicted in half-naked conditions. It never meant to kindle your sexual desires but it reflected the dressing pattern.

Till the time, it was all open there was no charm, no harm and nothing was wrong. As we started covering our own organs, these organs have become a taboo to be displayed. We can display our hands, legs, face but not these important organs. Under such circumstances, even face (being covered by one particular community) becomes a sexual organ. (Bharatiyar said this long back in one of his poems).

However, with change in the rulers, the customs also modified. The dressing patterns changed. Yes. Change is the only constant fact in this universe. The dressing patterns changed everywhere around the world. As we are from the apes, we started aping each others dress patterns without even giving a thought that whether these would suit us.

All of us study in Geography classes that cotton / khadi is the best suited fabric for an Indian but still we end up using less of cotton or Khadi but use a more of synthetic fabrics. Let me come to the point.

Fashion is the new mantra among the Indians since 5 years. Since the day Sen and Rai won the beauty pageants, India had shed all its inhibitions in aping the dress-style of the west. The West, aware of the Indian market potential and to exploit it manipulated such pageants and repeatedly Indian girls won year after year. Now this culture of fashion dressing and beauty pageants are imbibed in us.

I just could not understand what this fashion is all about. Fashion meant current style or custom. Initially, people were naked. In the name of fashion, they started covering their hips. Slowly it started covering other parts of the body and fashion was established. Now with no place left over to cover further, fashion decided to shed clothes. Slowly, exposing more and covering less had become the fashion. Fashion is ever changing.

Nowadays in the ramps the nip-slips are quite common! Once bitten twice shy! But it seems the other way around here! Repeatedly, the garment slips from its place to expose what is supposed to be covered. Believe me! All this happens accidentally! It is the high time the moral police (India’s I&B Minister PR Munshi) started a censor board for such shows in which the officers will have the private show and allow others to see!

Our News channels never lagged behind. Just to make while sun shines, repeatedly these clips were shown (of course morphed images) on the channels as if nothing else had happened in India.

We could have just ignored it. What has happened? After all, people have seen some one’s breast. Breast is nothing wrong. It is the organ that facilitates feeding every one born in the world. What if some one sees it? Is it immoral? Is it obscene? If this is obscene, then all Indian films are to be banned.

Look at the song and dance sequences! Those gyrations of hips, pelvic thrusts are literally eye-soaring! They have all the innovative ideas to show in provocative manner! What happened is happened. Let us ignore this. If we give undue coverage to such events, more and more episodes are there to follow. This is the 3rd occurrence after it started with Carol. If we keep on covering such uncovering exposures, it is sure we will have them more in days to come!