Dear Teentalker,
Thanks for writng to us. I really understand your frustration and your desire to wear western clothes.
Being in country like India, people here believe more in culture and tradition where involvement of western culture is not assimilated healthy. People feel such girls are not from a cultured background or invite people unnecessarily or such girls will spoil our culture. Or such girls will more become a fashionista kind of and will distract from their career.
Ofcourse, you need to behave in a decent manner when in front of public or elders. In order to convince them, you must first.....
Dear Teentalker,
Thanks for writng to us. I really understand your frustration and your desire to wear western clothes.
Being in country like India, people here believe more in culture and tradition where involvement of western culture is not assimilated healthy. People feel such girls are not from a cultured background or invite people unnecessarily or such girls will spoil our culture. Or such girls will more become a fashionista kind of and will distract from their career.
Ofcourse, you need to behave in a decent manner when in front of public or elders. In order to convince them, you must first figure out why they are stopping you. Is it because they think such dresses are indecent and are worried what other people will think? Or are they worried about your safety.
You need to talk to them calmly and have a discussion—not an argument. I’m not saying you’re very young and not qualified to make decisions for yourself, but sometimes our parents are right too. You need to figure out a middle ground.
A girl may be wearing shorts out of her likes but not trying to attract people. It may be out of love but not for others! However, we hope these stigmas would be way less in coming few years. Hope this helps, should yu have any other query, do connect online for chat between 11am-6pm or drop us an offline message.
Regards,
Expert Teentalk India
