Analysis Of The Book 'The Accidental Tourist'

Rudransh Singh

Sujin Lee

English 1020

27 November,2017

CLOTHING IN INDIA I chose the topic clothing from the book “The Accidental Tourist” where the writer tells us about the clothing of the protagonist and his wife. The protagonist of the story wears a Summer suit, which he prefers for traveling and his wife wore a summer dress. India is a very traditional and culture rich country. According to Worlds Together, “The population of India is around 1.3 billion making it the second most populated country in the world. There are around 4,000 religions in India with six major religions like Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and jainisim”(“Description Of India”). India has a variety of clothing with a major influence of religion.

India has a variety of clothing. Where people dress according to their cultural traditions, religion and climatic conditions. Each state of India has different type of clothing which is not true in the case of America. There are around 30 different types of clothing in India with different clothing for each state. According to Lisaa School of Design, “The different types of clothing are:- sari, Mundur neriyatham, mekhela sador, salwar kameez, churidar, anarkali suit, Lehanga choli, dhoti, lungi, Sherwani, bandhgala, pagri(turban) etc”(“Traditional Dresses and Fashion Culture”). Whereas, in America, there is no traditional clothing, but a variety of regional clothing influenced majorly by the climatic conditions. The clothing in the United States has evolved from the

Each state has its own culture and clothing. According to Lisaa School of Design,”In South India people generally wear a shirt, lungi, silk saris, etc”(Traditional Dresses and Fashion Culture across different Indian States). The ladies of south India love wearing gajra which is a collection of jasmine flowers wrapped around the hair bun with their traditional clothing.According to Lisaa School of Design, “People in North India generally wear Kurta pajama and salwar kameez, Lehanga choli etc”(“Traditional Dresses and Fashion Culture”). Rajasthan in North India has the best clothing. All the ladies clothes are very colorful and have the finest embroidery on them supported by heavy jewelry. Rajasthani ladies love wearing heavy jewelry. According to Lisaa School of Design, “People in western India wear, ghagra choli and kedia for men. People in east India wear pavda choli”(“Traditional Dresses and Fashion Culture”). The men of Punjab always wear their turban because according to their culture they cannot cut their hair as a respect for gods creation so to cover their long hairs they wear turbans. Even some women in the past used to wear turbans but it’s very rare now. The use of spinning wheels in India has now vanished and everyone prefers buying industrial clothing. According to Daily Indian, “Some of the Indian clothing brands are Flying Machine,Da Milano, Peter England, Monte Carlo, Westside