College Teens make Fashion Scene

By Golden Reejsinghani

Teen Fashions today cover everything from happening apparel to bizarre visible bra straps, loose drawstring pants, three fourth length trousers, and pierced eye brows, plenty of rings, bangles and glamorized chapels to dazzling colors. Vibrant rose, flaming orange, bright purple and solid blue. The colors are stunning with glitter and shine. No longer are the girls attired in loose flowing Kutras reaching up to their feet, they now display tight fitting Kutras which are worn three inches above the knees and even the saris are worn much above the ankles. The ankles are adorned with multi – colored and stylish anklets. But what stunned me was that everyone was into exposing some or the other portion of his or her body.

Kashish was wearing a stylish sari, “why are you wearing the sari high above the ankles”? “ this is an Indian-western fusion”, and this I said looking at the attire of her boy friend “ this too is the same”. He was wearing a denim pant with subtle intricate work done on the tapered ends of his pants. What ever any one might say they were looking real cool in these clothes.

What I learnt that day was that today’s youngsters were proud of their bodies and they wore clothes not only to show off their bodies but also to please themselves and not others. “I like to show off my midriff therefore I am wearing this dress, even my boyfriend likes to show off his mid riff. My boy friend loves to wear designer underwear on see through pants”, said Nita shah of Xavier’s college. “You know something said her friend Muskan, “I am getting married next month and I have asked my designer to make my wedding dress in such a manner so that some exposure of my body is seen, but I have made it clear to him that it should not appear obscene.

“If a person has the body then why shouldn’t we show it off” reasoned Karen who studies in Jai hind college “one should have the personality to carry it off. Am I not looking stunning in this dress”, she said pirating before me in her low cleavage short mini dress.

Not only girls but even guys are into real fashions, Rahul had a short t- shirt exposing his waxed naval and every young chic ooh! And aahed over it. Rahul’s friend Dean sported a loose pair of trousers cut off at the calves with criss- cross shaved head. “You look best in what you wear depending on how you carry it”, said Sabina khan.

Sabina’s friend Sara was wearing gaudy colored loose pajamas or casual pants. “I live in these clothes, especially the loose pajamas; they are so very cool and comfortable”. And the pajamas or casual pants as they are called are popular in every teen’s closet. A pair of loose draw string pant is far more comfortable then pair of tight pants or trousers and therefore the teens are all opting for it in a big, big way.

At Jai hind College I found a young chic wearing an off shoulder dress with the bra straps showing. “Shouldn’t they be concealed under the dress”? , I asked Raima “ No , peek a boo straps are totally in fashion and the straps come in all kinds of colors , even fabrics from transparent to detachable to colors matching your dress”.

Not only the dress scene is bizarre but even the accessories are stunning. Body piercing is the in thing and most collegians are having eye brows, noses, ears, navels, and even their tongues pierced. Raja Singh of National College Bandra wears long shirts, with two ear rings and plenty of rings adorning all his fingers the rings could be of any metal steel, gold, silver or even bronze depending on your pocket. His friend Dilip also wore chokers and rings on all his fingers and even thick bangles; he claimed he just loved any and all types of accessories. In footwear college girls are opting for slippers. Big and bulky shoes are out and slippers are in especially the OSHO sandals.

What was very interesting was that nobody showed off their skins even though they had well toned bodies and the makeup was the barest minimum which gave them a clean scrubbed look most of them only wore a little mascara, kaajal and lip balm. The collegians today have come into their own, they are very confident about their looks and sport fashions which they feel looks good on them, they are individualistic and very, very cool about it.