Musings

Is your Gender Pink in colour? Pink has been the comic sans of colours for a long time. A colour associated with everything not so serious and yet so fun. Pink being a strong and vibrant colour has been associated with boys for a long time. The carefreeness, the dominance, the freedom to play around yet not to be blamed is the personality of any boy, or can we say the hue pink? So when did pink became a colour for girls ? When did the colour blue, the colour which stands for caring, honesty, delicate and dainty, and everything we associate with femininity became the colour for boys? Or is there all just in our minds or a stereotypical vaccine that we inject in the fresh minds of kids who didn’t know that we hypocrites have gender-differentiated colours too. Let’s now look at what the youngsters of NIFT Kannur think about this! Breathing the air of fashion around, are their opinions on the colour pink stereotypical or not?  Students of NIFT, Kannur did have mix...

Pink, a colour for girls they say... Often we hear the society associate the words weak, fragile, soft, humble, kind, caring with women. They gave the colour pink these characters and tagged it to girls. Right from birth, we see the differentiation where boys get things, from toys to socks for their tiny feet in blue while girls get them in pink. Well, my problem is not tagging humans in different colours. Yes, colours do have different personalities and our human mind does connect with certain colours which we emotionally get bonded too. But my problem here is the hatred towards pink that most people have, thinking it’s a soft and weak colour just because it's associated with girls'. Boys who like pink, mostly do not admit it fearing being mocked at for liking something that’s supposed to be girls. On the other, blue though tagged with boys, is a universal colour which everyone likes to wear. That’s stereotypical! Don’t you think so? Pink is strong, pink is ...

WHAT IS THE COLOUR OF YOUR WARDROBE? Did you know that the colour of your wardrobe defines your personality? Yes, you read it right! Consciously or sub-consciously when we make a purchase our mind tends to be drawn to a particular colour no matter what the silhouette of the outfit is! The colour that dominates your wardrobe can give away a lot about you! So, What is the colour of your wardrobe? Psychology says that colours emit radiations that can change a person’s mood. And it can be different for different people, say bright yellow can make you more energetic, awake and noticed whereas a little dark mustard yellow could convey envy, jealous, dull and depressed. Thus we see a lot of people who like yellow for all its good reasons and people who hate the colour for the negative impact it creates. Here what matters is not the colour and the vibe it creates but which tint or shade of the tone flashed your mind when I mentioned that colour. And that, my friend, that! defines...

DIRECTIONS OF CHANGE Fashion is ever changing. The drastic changes in fashion is what makes it interesting and thus has a need to be studied. Now , the question arises ,where does this change come from?  who all are affected by this change? Does this change h ave any direction? The answer to it is ,yes! F ashion has direction of change which is also called the theories of fashion. Fashion shows a movement from different social classes of  the society. It could either hit a runway fashion inspired from the street style or celebrities’ style which could encourage average middle class youth. The directions of change could thus be penetration of fashion across different status! Trickle - down theory : Who doesn’t want to look like a star , like a fashionable aristocrat . This is the basic idea of trickle-down theory! The need to look high-class by the people falling under the bottom of social hierarchy make them copy the style of those above. The fashion grad...

We never go out of Style! An Introduction to Fashion and its Key Elements The Z-generation is so specific about being in trend, that if one is lagging behind the fast-fashion world they are actually scared about their acceptance in the society! I have been there once. But time has thought me that we can never go out of style! Fashion can be anything ,confining fashion only to what you wear can be totally stupid! There is Fashion in the way walk with your heels, find matching cushion covers to that of the curtains in your home or even stylizing your little brother’s hair! Fashion could be identified as an interesting manifestation that has mass acceptance and it’s the mother of trend , style, fad and classic . Now, how are these little kids of fashion? Lets’ see..                                                  Trend is basically...

From Window to the Aisle Seat Travelling could be fun, Travelling could be hectic, Travelling could be boring, Travelling could be enlightening,                  Travelling could be a jukebox of everything regardless of where you are travelling to or how far you are travelling to! I had one such trip where I was flying back from Ahmedabad to Kannur. There aren’t any direct flights so I had a transition from Ahmedabad to Mumbai and from Mumbai to Kannur. It isn't a long journey if you ask to any wanderlust- travel freak person who finds no trips long enough! But this journey is long enough for a student who didn't sleep doing her assignments the previous nights and had to wake up before the sun this day so that she could travel from Baroda to Ahmedabad airport and from there on...Well, in simple words it was a long journey for me. Though I couldn't eat anything in the morning other ...

Our Black is Beautiful! Shopping never gets tiring for souls like mine. The range of choices in each category of garments makes me wanna try on all of them, but most of the time I am too lazy to try on also I hate the trial rooms for some reason (which I will tell you in my blog which is yet to come) and end up buying over-sized or clothes that hardly fits me. On this particular Sunday, I was looking for some formals for my Jury wear and ended up in Louis Philippe. The entire store was lit and they had this mannequin-torso wearing a cool shirt with amazing prints and motifs on it as their centrepiece on their million dollar table. Later on  I got to know from the salesman that their current theme for visual merchandising is 'African Safari'. He also told me that those motif designs are inspired by Dashiki. I nodded like I knew Dashiki from school (With "Ohhh Dashiki !!! My 8th Grade classmate" walla expression on my face) . On my way back home I surfed on...

clicked on the busy street of lost hopes                                                                                                                                 Fidelity ain't his game He is a fickle-minded firebrand Flippant on your existence  Don't you fall for his feign fervent love He will turn you into a fiasco Even before you notice his foible heart Fortitude for those fracases Dear cat, Save yourself from this human world! ..................... Lost Hopes ...................         I was walking on the streets of Mumbai ,lost from the group that I came with, bearing my camera looking around for so...