Have you read about this anywhere? An extremist group has threatened to throw acid on girls/women in the city of Ranchi (in Jharkhand, located in Eastern India) who are wearing jeans.
Another report from earlier in the year, the Women and Child Department in Haryana has deemed t-shirts and jeans "indecent" dress for work.
Do either of these situations, or both, disturb you? Is one simply the result of a mandatory dress code, and no different than "business casual" in any typical office?
Is the other simply a result of a specific culture, and a group that is a bit out there choosing to try and reign back in the women to fall back in line with customary dress, the dupatta?
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2 of you said:
There's a group in Kenya called the 'Mungiki' (moon-gee-kee) who supposedly exist to return all of Kenya - or at least the Kikuyu tribe - to their traditional way of life. Oftentimes, they strip women naked if they're caught wearing any sort of pants/trousers. It was really bad during the post-election chaos in 07/08!
Jeans and T-shirts are not appropriate wear for most offices, I get that and am OK with offices setting down a dress code describing what is appropriate. In India, the sari is the power suit for women if they want to be taken seriously and if they want to come across as uber-professional (and the salwar kameez for less formal daily wear). I get that too. But t-shirts and jeans are "indecent"? Shut these morons down already.
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