Essay on Fashion Craze in Indian Women Complete Essay for Class 10, Class 12 and Graduation and other classes.
Today, people aspire to be someone famous. And, to become ‘that someone’, they’re willing to pay a premium for quality, design and exclusivity. Be it the contemporary housewife, a sophisticated or the next generation of working class, they all want the best in life. “Today people, in one word, want glamour. Anything written on celebrity, fashion and social revelry etc. is received with great delight. By giving the readers’ what they want media whets their appetite for it. Then follows the vicious circle of desiring more and more. So media goes on providing the same.
Let’s take up growing awareness about fashion among youngsters. Media has given a boost to the fashion industry, to the fashion shows. The fashion industry is at its peak with Indian couture catching the fancy of the fashion gurus all across the globe. Beauty pageants have helped in promoting it. More and more youngsters are getting pulled in by the glamour of lights, camera, grease pint and fame. Young girls are being lured to the showbiz. Almost every young girl wants to be a slim trim, sexy model dancing on ramp, or wants to get a “Miss ….” Crown on her head. Since the last 4-5 years , the whole scenario of beauty pageants and fashion industry has just turned on.
Beauty contests sprout like common weeds today. Every small dance and college wants to organize one and of course everybody wants to participate in it. Well , from an ordinary looking girl to a “crowned ideal woman” , it’s a long process. The body beautiful is carefully crafted in the beauty fact Dry, to be sold ata beauty mela. A successful sale helps it to lure millions of others back to the beauty industry. Except for a woman’s height which is non negotiable, everything else can be altered’.
Through aggressive advertising the beauty industry has been very successful in convincing women of the ‘Ideal Woman’ myth. It has made the woman’s body into a commodity which should” meet a standard i.e. of queen’s. Every woman desires to look beautiful, sensuous and she feels insecure if she does not meet this standard. Perhaps this insecurity persuades women to buy beauty aids with often false claims of “removing wrinkles”, “changing skin complexion” or “making one fair”. But there is the other side of the woman, the true Indian woman in picture. The Indian woman, who hopes that her husband’s longevity is increased by larger dot on her forehead, who has no idea of her rights. She just knows giving and giving. Whenever any association opposes the beauty pageants or fashion shows, our ‘Miss Indias and crown girls’ do talk about feminism and women’s rights but has any celebrity model expressed any anguish at the higher rate of infant mortality among girls in rural areas? Did anyone mention a sharp declining male-female ratio, existing female infanticide and increased selective abortion of the female foetus through sex determination? Did these models even know that every hour a woman is raped and every 10 minutes a crime is committed on women somewhere in her country?
Hard-earned money that could have been spent on nourishing food to bring on a natural healthy look is used for buying artificial blushes and skin nourishers. These artificial aids only worsen the condition if a woman’s general health is bad. Women groups and activists are objecting mainly to the ‘commodification’ of women as sex objects. “Women should be free to decide which beauty products to use. They should not be conditioned by advertising and a beauty contest culture.
Mothers breast feed their baby girls for lesser anount of time than baby boys, this reflects the strong desire for sons. If women are particularly anxious to have a male child, they may deliberately try to become pregnant again as soon as possible after a female is born. Conversely, women may consciously seek to avoid another pregnancy after the birth of a male child in order to give maximum attention to the new son.” A study in Punjab shows that medical expenditures for boys are 2.3 times higher than for girls. Why a woman does so? Obviously, to fulfil her patriarchal family wishes.
There are too many contrasts between the typical Indian woman and modern outgoing Indian woman. Should we say that womanhood has been divided in between two polarities? Between big dot on forehead and the hair style where vermillion finds no place. The point is not to follow centuries old customs, but to maintain the grace and dignity of womanhood. To maintain herself in such way, her presence gives a feeling of proud of being a woman, no matter she be in any corner of the world.
We must learn to accept women in all their diversity—tall, short, thin, fat, white or black….Let’s try to understand in real terms that “Beauty is not in the body but in the mind.” Let’s try to improve women’s living conditions in real picture.
