Mahatma Gandhis Experiment with Clothing


 
 
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Mahatma Gandhis Experiment with Clothing

MAHATMA GANDHI'S EXPERIMENTS WITH CLOTHING:

Mahatma Gandhi's experiments with cothing summed up the changing attitude to dress in the Indian sub-continent. It is stated in the points below:

  •  When he went to Londen to study Law as a boy of 19 in 1888, he cut off the tuft on his head and dressed in a Western suit. On his return, he continued to wear Western suits topped with a tuban.
  • As a lawyer in Johannesburg, South Africa in the1890s, he still wore Wetern clothes.
  • In Durban, in 1913, Gandhiji first appeared in a lungi and kurta with his head shaved as a sign of mourning to protest against the shooting of Indian coal miners.
  • On his return to India in 1915,Gandhiji decided to dress like a Kathiawadi peasant.
  • In 1921, he adopted the short dhoti, the form which he wore until his death. He adopted this dress of the poorer Indian to identify himself as a common man
  • Khadi is a white and coarse dress material. It was a sign of purity, simplicity and poverty for Gandhiji. Wearing khadi also became a symbol of nationalism and a rejection of Western mill-made cloth.
  • Gandhiji even wore the short dhoti without a shirt when he went to England for the Round Table Conference in 1931.
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