Dress and its effect on the development of the body
Perhaps you have not cared to observe that some ladies and gents appear to be taller and more impressive, when they put on proper dress while there are other persons, whose stature is not short, but they look short stature for they do not put on proper dress. Its main reason is their selection of proper or improper dress. •
These days the fashion of putting on tight dresses seems . to be on the increase. People put on tight shirts, tight pants, tight waist-coats or jackets. The ladies put on tight shirts, tight ’salwars’ or tight blouses. If you look to their shoes, you will find them also to be tight. If you ask its reason from them, they would say, “It is the fashion these days.”
What is fashion?
To put on clothes, as other people do, is called fashion. It is not very good for the people to remain distinct from the rest knowingly, but blind imitation is something very bad. In so far as the fashion of putting on tight clothes is concerned, it is defective. (Luckily the attention of certain people has gone in this direction and an opinion has grown against it.)
The development of the body of a human being takes place in the same way as the growth of plants and trees. While planting trees, we take care to see that their roots get sufficient space to grow. Their roots should get sufficient water from the ground to suck. They should get sufficient air and sun-shine. Only then it is possible for the plant or tree to grow and yield fruits and flowers.
If you are in the habit of putting on tight clothes, your body cannot grow properly. It is not a fact that tight clothes are just uncomfortable. Our body is continuously growing. If we shall afford proper opportunity to it, it will grow. This can only happen when we will put on such clothes as would afford proper opportunity to it to move all the parts of our body freely.
The growth of the legs of such children is retarded, who put on tight pants qr tight ‘churidar payjama’. In the same way, the girls should not put on tight clothes. It is harmful to put on tight banyians, underwears, tight shorts, tight shirts, bush-shirts, coats and waist-coats. They ‘hinder the growth of chest, thighs and arms. Tight cuffs and collars are also harmful. The growth of the neck stops, if tight collars are put on. The growth of the wrists is also hindered on account of tight cuffs of shirts