The Effects of Social Repression
All the Oldies are trying to re-live what has gone past.
In India, our average life expectancy is 70 to 80. So by that calculation 40 should be the middle age.
When I see women in post-40s dressed like teenagers or behave like teenagers it is obviously an attempt to go back in times, we understand it is an old repressed desire which has gotten a passage to express and these are the days that allow one the space to do a bit more than the earlier generations could do.
Growing up in middle-class neighbourhoods, a lot of women do not have the freedom and opportunity to dress and do things that they saw the upper-class women or actresses doing. For many women actors and actresses inspire and act as motivators knowing full well that an actor or actress has the privilege to do a lot of things that the common public can’t afford.
From fashion to development of mind, from youth to maturity, it is expected that mental development should happen. Progress is only cherished in terms of access to dress up as one’s own wish and catching a lot of eye balls. As a response lewd comments and dressing to attract has always been labelled immoral. So, there is this contradiction in women’s desire and the message they want to convey at the same time.
Western clothing is embraced easily but not the western mind which aspires to accept equality and respect for all.
Jagoran 