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THE WAY OF LIFE
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Of course, now-a-days, there are no rules or limitations regarding dress and decorations; nor are there any social mores. person wears any dress which he or she likes. A Gujarathi may wear the Maharashtrian or the Punjabi dress and decorations. A Rajasthani may wear the Sindhi or the Punjabi dress. A person wears any dress he or she likes; the Punjabi, the Gujarathi or the Rajasthani dress. The English style of dress is all-pervasive not only throughout India, but throughout the whole world. In the past, people cared for our cultural or their own social and family-traditions in respect of dress and decorations. But to-day people do not care for those traditions and limitations. They do not even care for the principles of physical health. They do not care for physical comfort in respect of dress. They aim merely at looking beautiful, fashionable and at imitating movie-celebrities in respect of dress and decorations. People have become so stupid in respect of their dress and decorations that they cannot think of this point, "Do I look attractive or awkward in this dress?"
THE APPAREL ALSO CAUSES A QUARREL
Quarrels and misunderstandings arise between husband and wife in respect of dress and decorations. The husband wants his wife to wear that apparel which he likes but the wife desires that the husband should wear the dress she likes. It does not matter if they wear what each likes the other to wear but quarrels arise if each wears what he or she likes and if that dress is not liked by the other. Not only this; the husband and the wife may wear what each likes the other to wear but that dress may not be liked by the parents and that dress may be indecent. Even in such a case, quarrels arise in a family and verbal exchanges take place among them.
There is a greater possibility of such quarrels and dissensions arising in the case of interprovincial marriages; and in the case of those who marry people of other nations and countries. The styles of dress vary from province to province; and from nation to nation. As long as marriage does not take place and as long as they live separately, the questions of dress do not
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