Thursday, September 11, 2008

Indian Men’s Wear- Coming To The Fore

The spurt in Indian men’s wear can be attributed to number of facts including, evergreen Indian movie world, foreign influence, phenomenal growth in number of designers and fashion houses. Indian men are blissfully aware of the world fashion. Interestingly, on an average Indian male is perceived to be slightly conservative compared to his western counterparts and a push is still considered essential for him to get more fashionable.

Technically or rather fashionable speaking, Indian Men’s wear in India is segregated into two distinct groups of Indian and Western. Indian men’s wear can be seen in corporate world on form of formal suits and dresses whereas western dress has two further parts of formal suits and casual wear.

India boasts of a proud clothing culture since ancient days. Whether its ethnic dresses or royal attires, one can find the splendor and grandeur reflecting from a source of Indian clothing. Its time of retro fashion and following the trend, India’s rich sartorial heritage manifesting in style of the ancient Maharajas and Mughal kings has started to acquire the center stage. Indian dresses like Sherwani, Budni or Nehru Jacket, Prince or Jodhpuri Coat and Kurta Churidar etc have taken center stage not only in India but in western world as well. Things changed in post-independence era. Before independence, most of the formal wears were designed according to western norms. Handspun fabrics became the new norm after independence.