Word: saris
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pakistan. I 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...
...female chauvinism came as a shocking surprise. The mating of East and West has generally worked out well in Pakistan, providing the alien bride 1) adopts Islam, 2) accepts the constraints of Moslem society, e.g., never talks to her husband's male friends, 3) learns to wear a sari or salivar (baggy pants) and kameez (a sort of knee-length blouse. "Dressed like that," sighed a Moslem dowager of her son's sari-clad wife, "how could she be anything...
Better in Gingham. But in India, even the Western bride's protective coloration was coming under fire. In the Times of India, Columnist Amita Malik recently launched a cutting campaign against foreigners in saris. "If there is anything uglier than an Indian matron in bulging jeans," she snapped, "it is a white woman, tall, angular and with straw-colored hair, wearing a Dacca sari Foreign wives fondly imagine that they look beautiful in saris, when they would look miles better in gingham...
...hour chosen by astrologers as auspicious, Ceylon's Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke last week swore in history's first female Prime Minister of an independent country. Coolly dignified in a plain white cotton sari, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike. 44, stepped to the balcony to give a pressed-palm salute to the crowd below, and then, predictably, burst into tears. That was just how she had won last week's election...
...Hotel Edison, Equity was in session. Poised, ponytailed children from The Sound of Music, clutching lap dogs, mingled with Negroes from Raisin in the Sun and Orientals from A Majority of One. Sari-draped Vivien Leigh held court, apparently trying to play a curious mixture of Cleopatra and Joan of Arc. Equity's George Nicolau recalled the 1919 strike: "Let your answer be now as it was then-Equity!" But hardly anyone remembered the old marching hymn. Shrunken in size. Equity is now "just a cut above the horseshoers" (as one labor organizer cracked), and for years has been...