Marriage doesn’t define dress code

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Supermodel Kate Moss recently commented that her husband would go mental if she started dressing like a wife!

Super-model Kate Moss has revealed that marrying ro-cker Jamie Hince has not changed her wardrobe. How-ever, she went on to say that her husband likes her when she dresses up like a “rock’n’roll kind of girl”. Said Kate, “He would go mental if I started dressing like a wife!”

Dressing up is individualistic and extremely personal. There should not be any dictats as long as one is comfortable and feels happy about it. Kate’s comment was strictly personal and didn’t mean to provoke any reaction but it has not gone down well with women, who have lashed out saying that they don’t dress up according to their marital status.
The irritation over Kate’s remark is well-intentioned but a bit of an over-reaction. It was a light-hearted remark based on certain stereotypes, not to be taken so seriously, explains author and entrepreneur Himani Dalmia and adds, “I got married a year-and-a-half ago and my way of dressing has seen no change whatsoever. I have always had a classic sense of style and have not been much of a ‘rock’n’roll kind of girl to begin with. The clothes I wear reflect my personality, to some extent my work status and not my marital status! I wear pantsuits, skirts, dresses, jeans, kurtas and saris — all with equal comfort and ease. There are a variety of factors that determine how I dress — being single or married isn’t one of them.”
Theatre artiste and actor Vidushi Mehra, who has been married for 10 years, finds nothing wrong or sexist about Kate’s remark saying that it’s her personal opinion. For her “toning things down” only applies to over-the-top dressing which does not suit a person’s body type/personality. “Women are free to dress at their will irrespective of their marital status. I think a confident, secure woman doesn’t worry about any kind of tags or labels. If
she knows her self-worth, she will dress like that too,” she says.
Author and ex-Miss India contestant Ira Trivedi seconds that dressing according to what your personal style is, is as important as dressing according to your body type.
“As you grow old a woman’s body changes. It is not becoming of a woman to dress below (or above) her age. Having said that there is actually no ‘wife’ style of dressing. It is really up to an individual. If a wife chooses to dress in a fashion that her husband likes and that makes her feel happy, I don’t see that as a problem,” quips Ira.
However, many beg to differ stating that sometimes circumstances dictate what you end up wearing and generalising this to ‘all married women’ is not correct.
“When I was single I used to wear fun clothes. Now, I go for sophisticated clothes. I live in a joint family, therefore restrict myself from wearing very short dresses/skirts or revealing clothes to avoid offending the sentiments of my in-laws,” says marketing executive Ruchika Gupta.