Word: salwar
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lived there very happily with my husband and with everybody else even though I 1) did not adopt Islam; 2) did not accept the constraints of Moslem society, e.g., I certainly did talk to my husband's male friends; 3) did not learn to wear a sari or salwar and kameez-for the same reason that your article points out: a Western girl rarely looks good in them...
Campus Eye-Openers. Inevitably, one pale male at last week's seminar countered with a charge of Adam-teasing. Complaining of the girls' gauzy saris, low-cut cholis (blouses) and flimsy salwar (trousers), a student cried: "There is always too much visible." Conceded a Lucknow University coed: "At times we also tease boys." And for sheer devilish ingenuity, few Eve-teasers could match the New Delhi girl who telephones males at random, starting conversations that are hard for many an innocent husband to explain. If a wife answers, this Adam-teaser hangs up with the shocked...