Why do men wear uniforms even after school?
Are the men being lazy or fooled? Do they collectively decide to coordinate? Are we being left behind?
Men! We need to talk about this. No. Don’t get offended on the title of this article, or the content you will read ahead. It was clearly a poor trial for clickbait from my side. But, seriously…
I want to ask all of you a question, especially Indian men. Do you all have a secret meeting where you decide to wear the same thing on occasions. If so, why are we not informed?
I remember watching a video where the wives tricked their husbands into wearing matching T-shirts, the joy on men’s faces was contagious. I loved it.
Additionally, the same sets for families for occasions, bridesmaids and groomsmen look cute.
But, I have been seeing this phenomenon for the last year, specially with the men in my family. They all want to and do dress alike all the time.
Don’t you guys get the rush of buying unique clothes, style it in your head and sleep happy?
I only have two explanations for this.
You are not bothered at all about your clothes. You actually like twinning!?
My father and uncle got the same clothes stitched for my brother’s wedding. I am not saying similar. I am saying exactly same!
This does not end here. For my cousin’s wedding, all the men in the family, including little boys got same clothes stitched.
Even if I overlook this abomination at the weddings, where they grin while posing together for a group photo, they don’t stop there. No. At every function, we have a lot of those in the weddings, by the way, they go and buy the exact same thing if they are not getting it stitched at the tailors.
They bought dhotis in bulk from Amazon for Haldi ceremony just because they wanted to do something different. And of course, what can be more creative than wearing dhoti at a North Indian wedding. Cue - eye roll from us sisters, before we went to buy yellow sarees for all of us. What? We didn’t want to be left behind.
And they were so happy!
Why? Me and my sister wandered for days in the Chandni Chowk market to get something new.
Meanwhile, these men went to one shop, booked their cloth piece, argued a bit about the color for one of the functions, gave their sizes and went their merry way.
We had to contemplate our life choices after this.
You are being fooled by the fashion lords and big companies.
Now, you are not alone in this. We also reach for the same little black dress for parties, jeans and tank top for day out, and chikankari kurta for temples.
But, there is variety in that too. I feel for you people. Fashion industry does you a bad job all the time.
At Diwali, I stepped out of the house and every guy was wearing the same sparkly kurta, some were maybe not told that the color theme was green, or maybe they ran out at Myntra, so they settled with other colors.
Young cousin went to buy a traditional outfit for his college party and came back empty handed (not without our favorite momo, that’s considered blasphemy in our home).
Why? Because, they were selling the same stuff he had bought months ago.
I feel for you! I am with you. And I wrote this after I ordered same hoodies for my brother and cousin from H&M.
Haldi is an Indian wedding ceremony where a paste of turmeric is applied on bride and groom, to get them glowy, fresh and yellow for the main event.
Chikankari is a type of traditional embroidery from Lucknow, India that has now been grossly capitalized.
Let me know if this happens in your family too? Or if you are the one who does this. We can be friends. After all, I haven’t disowned my family. Yet.
I highly recommend you, especially men, to read Abhishek’s justification through anotherBlog. It is hilarious, and will work as a soothing balm.
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