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Monday, Sep 12, 2005

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Campus fashion: what is `in' and what is `out'

Fashions of the young keep changing with the times and is now reflected in the costumes of actors in movies. Our readers feel, the young should have the freedom to choose what they wear.

Weather should determine fashion

There is nothing really disturbing in the dresses young men or women wear today.

If we are shocked now, so were our parents when we were young.

In the west, clothing is dictated by the weather.

Here one sometimes finds young women shivering in thin clothes in winter.

They are willing to suffer but cannot forsake fashion.

K. Mohan Ram,

Basavanagudi

Keeps changing

What is considered fashionable clothing keeps changing with the times.

Fashion is cyclical and one finds the bell-bottoms of the 1970s suddenly the rage now. To some extent campus fashions used to be influenced by films but now actors are taking a cue from what the young are wearing to be as close to real life as possible.

Babita S.,

Indiranagar

Dress codes in colleges

Costumes worn by film stars do influence the young. What Kareena or Hrithik wore in some movie finds its way into college campuses.

So long as the clothes are within acceptable norms, nobody need complain. Most colleges do have a written or unwritten dress code, which students are expected to adhere to.

Radhika M.,

Madhavanagar

No need for a `moral police'

Fashions do come and go we all want to look fashionable. The short tops and jeans worn by most young women in college are comfortable either while standing in a bus or riding a two-wheeler. The "moral police" who dictate to the majority what they should or should not wear have no place in a free society such as ours.

L.V. Monisha,

Jayanagar

For the sake of comfort

Film stars are invariably neatly groomed. Of course, no sensible student will think of wearing what actors wear in a song-and-dance sequence. Most young people think for themselves and do not always ape film stars.

Surekha H.,

R.T. Nagar

Influence of television

More than movie stars, what young people see on TV channels influence them. We do make a clear distinction between college attire and party wear. One set of clothes for attending classes and something different for going to the movies or partying.

Karen Anand,

Austin Town

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