Melanie - clothing

Today we received a traditional outfit worn by Indian women, the name well I don’t really know how to spell it so I will omit that piece. They are quite beautiful, made up of draw string pants that are one color and print and a long top that goes down to about your calves and that is made up of another print and color. It is accompanied with a shawl like piece that can be draped in two different manners, either over your shoulder or around your neck with the loose ends hanging in the back. Well I learned today that when having a custom made outfit done here they often take different measurements than we would think to in the US. In the US we take into account each and every portion of the body, being your shoulders, your chest, hips and all of that. Well here they only take into account your chest, waist and length of your legs. So when I went to put mine on the draw string on the pants was a little short but worked, everyone else’s had lots of slack on the string. The top on the other hang that is an entirely different story, haha. Since I was a swimmer growing up, I have big broad shoulders and since the only thing they noted down was my chest size, well it didn’t make it over my shoulders. So I get to be the cool kid today wearing my normal clothes while everyone is all dressed up. Talk about standing out.