The Skimpy Dress of the Princess that Shocked the Italian Traveller
An incredible fashion choice!
If you are a woman, try putting on a pair of shorts with a t-shirt, and walk through the streets of India.
What you think will happen?
Unless you are in one of those metro Indian cities, there is a decent chance that people will stare at you. Try traveling through a village street, at least a hundred pairs of eyeballs are guaranteed.
Indian communities, in general, are extremely sensitive towards ‘outfits that upsets culture.’ Low skirts, sleeveless tops, tight shirts- there are umpteen choices that bother the majority here.
Indian citizens mostly assume that they inherit this rigid mentality towards women’s dress-code from their predecessors. Not quite. The truth is the contrary.
Ancient Indian society had bestowed more freedom to women. If anything, women in the past had ‘morally outrageous fashion choices’ compared to the modern-day standards the community has nurtured.
One such peculiar choice of outfit is recorded by the Italian traveler Pietro Della Valle.
