The women I work with I repeatedly told me that the garment I need to rush out and buy, right now the Salwar Kameez, but I have to admit that I don't think this is a look that I just wouldn't really rock this look back home. This is what most people in my office wear to work everyday--with some wide variation. The set is always paired with a precisely matching dupatta (a long cotton or silk scarf). To my taste, I think it would translate as simultaneously frumpy and flashy. Which isn't to say I haven't seen some that are truly spectacular, and beautiful to behold. Possibly, I'm not as style-adventurous as I'd like to think, but the mental image of my non-South Asian self wearing one in NYC does not seem to jell.
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Hey, if Gwen Stefani could appropriate cultural styles of dress, so can YOU! Do it!
I fully intend to rock a dupatta on a daily basis, but the Salwar Kameez . . .on me? Costumey, no?
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