Sisterhood of the traveling saris
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I learned something at a cousin’s engagement this weekend about gender differences and the bond between mothers and daughters. Girls share clothes. And not just new clothes, either — clothes which were 30 years old.
The ceremony was framed by a pair of saris joined in a knot. It signified the merger of families, of course, but it also had a deeper meaning. The mothers of the fiance and fiancée had worn these saris at their own engagements.
Later that evening, my sister-in-law pointed out the fuzzy pink sweater adorning her adorable. As a baby, she had worn the same sweater which her grandmother had knitted for her.
Something a 12-year-old relative said over the weekend stuck with me. She opined that reading was boring, but allowed that one book she was reading was pretty good: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I recoiled, and not just because it’s chick lit. Men do many delicious and disgusting things in pants. Sharing is not one of them.
Fact is, many of the treasures men would want to pass down, obsolesce rapidly. Big-screen TVs and iPods don’t age with grace. The things that do hold up, like pens and weaponry, rely on men to be so organized, they can find them 30 years later. I know guys who’ve lost their own babies and wedding rings, let alone small objects in the dark.
So I’ll settle for old family photos. Just don’t save me those polyester bellbottoms. The only guy who looks good in them is Amitabh.
on Monday, June 25th, 2007, 10:05 pm in Humor, Musings › 
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Feroz Khan kho burah muth kahoo…yaar, woh ishtyle king hai.
well - a rather prosaic reason could be that women just have more to leave behind. how many men do you know who do retail therapy with clothes (besides you and your zara-fixation of course) ? ;-)
my tastes run more staid btw.
I saw the movie ” sisterhood of traveling pants” . It is a kind of cute chik flick..
yap we women share a lot…from old clothes to old jewellary to most important old family cooking recipes..In some families new born children never wear new clothes, they always wear clothes of older nephews or nieces when they were babies, it is considered goodluck..
And then there is so much passed on from men in the family too to me, from grandpas and fathers too..not only family albums , books read and underlined by dad, dairies, my grandpas english poetry he wrote some 50 years back..and even old letters my dad kept of mine when I wrote to him from dorms when I was 18 and his replies., so it could be old letters, dairies, old autographed books, business advices written on paper, tapes, that can be passed on from men to men to their children…so much heritage passed on and stored in lockers, things like this more precious than sarees or jewellary or money or recipes..
Try telling that to my dad. I have, and it hasn’t worked. And add big rectangular black framed glasses to the mix, while you’re at it.