This is getting posted one day earlier because I will not have access to a computer for the next couple of days. So.....
It is so interesting that in our country, different stages in a girl's life or transitions in her life is clearly identifiable by her clothes and hairstyle.
Pre-teens were long skirts and blouses and pig tails. Teenagers wear half-saris (I am talking about South India because this is where I was born)and two-plaits, neatly tied up with ribbons. Once you are married or of marriageable age then you wear a sari and a single plait.
This is the traditional design of things.
However, now things have change. The ubiquitous salwar kameez is worn by pre-teens, teenagers, young and married women alike. The lines are blurred but for the pig-tails.
It is so strange. Young women and married women don't sport two plaits let alone tie them up neatly with a ribbon. Now, even if you want to and if you did do it, you will be ridiculed. And I am not even talking about your peers balking at your fashion faux pas...i'm talking about comments such as, "Don't you think you are too old for two plaits and ribbons" etc. Single plait is considered age-appropriate and if you are older then it is surely a knot at the nape :)
I'm still trying to figure out what has ribbons and double-plaits got to do with age?
ps: I do miss my ribbons and pig-tails occasionally. And on those days I make sure I go to bed wearing my best pig tails but I still wake-up the next day the same age as I was the previous night. The logic doesn't make sense :)
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