Getting ready for Festivities

Festivals!! For us expats festivals have a very deep and a strong meaning. We left our country and societies and created a new world with other expats. Festivals are very nostalgic for all of us. We try to reconnect with our own selves and our cultures whenever ever the festivities arrive.

As the Dubai weather cools down, the festivals celebrations starts in full swing. Every festival means new clothes, new garments. Fashion and trend changes every year and the exhibitions reflect the mood of the society. Designers flock around the city from September onwards digging deep in the buyer’s pockets. Every year these buyers go to the exhibitions and try and buy the eye catching, very unique clothing for every festive party they need to attend. The social wannabes do not want to repeat their dresses. The pressure from social media have further surmounted on the social butterflies. The name dropping of the designers to no repeat garments is really affecting them mentally. Well this spending, repeat, no rewear attitude in not only affecting them, but also affecting the society and environment.

I am a big advocate of sustainable fashion.  I rewear recycle and restyle. I still have clothes from my university days, which I refuse to part with.  Indeed fashion comes back and its wise to rewear them. 

In the above pic I am wearing a simple white top with Saree, with saree draped as skirt, with Jaipuri skirt and with jeans.

What you create with your creativity cannot be seen anywhere else. You be your own designer. Create your own style statement. We should stop looking for excuses to shop. Just look into your own closet and say, “how to wear them”? Instead, “I don’t have anything to wear”. In the picture below I am wearing Chikankari embroidered skirt in four different pairings. Restyle and make your own statement.

I am not against shopping. But it’s better to be a wise shopper, than being an instant or a pressurized shopper. Whenever I am in doubt, I just open all the doors of the closets. Somehow I manage to mix and match. Believe me, I don’t shop anything for festivals or for occasions. I do my kind of shopping which is not pressurized under any festival or any other occasion celebration. Moreover I don’t buy anything while keeping one look in my mind.

 

Below is my favorite garment; Saree. Draped on two different  occasions in two different ways.

 

 I am certain all of us have clothes hidden behind your closets, not worn for years. Try and do a “MarieKondo” job. What I mean is that sir your clothes, which are waiting to see the light for years. Stop looking out of the house, when  your own closet is crying out to be worn. You can follow my journey on FB and Insta @desibychoice