A young woman must never emerge from a boutique's changing room, grabbing her chest area and announcing "Great outfit, but it's a bit snug around here," to the salesperson if the salesperson in the said boutique happens to be a male. Polite chaos will ensue. All at once, the guy will turn a violently terrific shade of eggplant and avert his eyes in the most dramatic fashion (no pun intended!); the young woman's mother and aunt will gasp in shock and horror; and the young woman's cousin will, almost in slow motion, grab the outifit's accompanying dupatta* (see below) and throw it across the young woman's shoulders. And in the pin drop silence that follows, the young woman will wonder what in the hell just happened.
Apparently, male salespeople are not to be informed/asked about any alterations that a patron might need since they work in a woman's fashion boutique and all. Ahem.
At least the experience gave us something to giggle about later.
For those of you who care, I did end up purchasing the outifit.
*click on the following link if you're not familiar with Pakstani garb and have no idea what a dupatta is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupatta.
Oh, and the pics above show what shalwaar kameez look like (clearly, there are many variations to the traditional outfit). The scarf that the woman has wrapped around her head in the first pic and draping on her neck in the second pic is a dupatta.
2 comments:
i like to buy kurtas that accentuate my man boobies. if i make a scene about it, the tailor usually gives me a discount out of disgust.
i just realized. tmi.
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