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What Stereotypes?

Updated: Aug 1, 2020

What are stereotypes? An Introduction to the series. According to Wikipedia stereotype is a thought that may be adopted about specific types of individuals or a certain way of doing thing

Indian Women are normally stereotyped to be a species that drape a saree, adorn their long hair with flowers and are to be dramatic, welcome their men home with a smile, fill their bellies with food, bear their children and raise them. The scenario is not even close to similar anymore. A lot of women have rose to power ever since. It is a great thing indeed.

Men do not expect this from their female counterparts either. Men are stereotyped to be dominant; earn for the household and feed their families, are to be strong and fierce. Men are supportive these days. I’m no feminist. There are various kinds of Stereotypes. I intent to break them one at a time. Although now the turn of events is from a different angle. I won’t get into this at the moment. Let’s talk about this later.

Edition #1

Today’s Blog is merely a tiny segment from the series. This post is about sarees and how women are supposed to drape it. There are various ways to drape it. The Classic way, State wise, retro and now Modern. If you guys notice, when it comes to a saree to be specific for this post, we women do the stereotyping ourselves, our moms, our grandmas, our aunts, our cousins and our neighbor aunties etc. Not everyone but most of them.

This post is like a call out to them; it’s like telling them to chill and learn to accept some of the slight alterations our generation makes. Our generation of women sure are bold but we are also strong. They care about us, I don't deny it. Just sit them down and have a gentle conversation show them the differences and that you have the ability to take care of yourself. Also that you understand their views but just aren't in the same page.



I had also enrolled in the Roposo Blogger Academy and had to decide the outfit based on the Location. The assignment was called #AllAboutTheLocation. I wanted to shoot in a graffiti backdrop and so chose the outer compound wall of The Stella Maris College for women in Chennai.



The wall had several paintings of women in sarees. So I thought Why not? And decided to style a sari with a Masaba Crop top I won in a giveaway! Yayy!



For the Makeup I decided a Red Lip and Liner look would be just right and not overdo it. I found a pair of red jhumkas that were perfect for the outfit and added a mala bracelet adding to the Indian punch.



If you have any other stereotype in mind that you want me to break. Do comment them below I will make sure I incorporate as many ideas as I can. There are so many more editions to come as you can see. I am only getting started.



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Fun Fact about the post – This was shot at 4:30 in the morning as an experiment.

Until next time, have a Fun, Fashionable Day ahead.

XoXo,

SN

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