“ How to dress up
and carry yourself well”
Dressing appropriately and
carrying ourselves well is both good and necessary for both men and women.
I’m not a connoisseur of
dressing but at least I have learnt in all these years that I have lived (more
than 5 decades now) that dressing appropriately and carrying ourselves well is
important in our lives.
Few of the essential elements that we
need to adhere to for dressing appropriately well are :
· Our dress should fit us
well. They should be neither too large nor too small for our size.
· Colour and design of our
dress should be befitting to the place and occasion we are going to.
· Our dress should be neat
and well ironed.
· Our dress should be age
appropriate.
· We may have less number of
dresses for ourselves but under no circumstances the quality of the clothes
should be compromised.
· Foot wear is also part of
dressing well. Hence care should be taken to wear appropriate footwear which
should be a decent and comfortable one.
· School students should
take pride in wearing their uniforms.
Men need to know the following:-
· Sports shoes do not fall
under ‘formal’ wear so the same should be avoided by all means when they go to
their work place unless your job is related to sports.
· One can’t wear a suit with
sports shoes.
· It is compulsory to wear
formal shoes along with suits. Otherwise it will be considered inappropriate
wear by those who understand what ‘dressing’ means.
· Never go to your work
place in slippers/sandals.
· T-shirts how-so-ever good they may be come
under informal wear.
· It is always better if out
of trousers and the shirt one is light in colour and the other dark.
· If you are wearing a full
sleeve shirt to your work place as a formal wear never roll back your sleeves.
· Always ensure that your
sleeves are buttoned at work place.
· The shirt should always be
tekked into the trousers at the work place.
· Always carry a fresh, neat
and clean handkerchief in your pocket.
· Keep the handkerchief in
front of your nose if you have to sneeze. This will reflect your good upbringing.
It will not be
inappropriate to say that the dressing for men is merely essential but for a
woman it is ornamental in nature.
Dresses of woman are of
for more variety and colours than those of men.
Women look good and more
beautiful when they wear their dresses which are suiting their body structure
and are age appropriate.
Women may wear sarees,
salwar kameez and even western apparels to their work place for all of them can
be clubbed under formal wear provided they are appropriate and elegant. Women of
sense should be able to recognise the thin line that differentiate between
formal and informal wears for all these three apparels i.e. sarees, slawar
kameez and western clothes.
Sukhwant Singh Thaper
