unknown guy, IMV the individuals outfit in the picture are representative of the constituents they represent, (same may not be said of their will and integrity)..

In all honesty, I want my CA member to look like me, maybe in kachhad and bhoto, not in a crisp daura suruwal just for photo op. There is no shame in being who you are. And you must understand that they DO NOT KNOW the dress code thing. They did not go to expensive schools like you did. They did not join Police, Army or were in any proper profession where they might have had that dress code experience or knowledge. They were either fighting a guerilla war (and you would not like to see them in their fighting outfit), working in rural Nepal, lucky to have a new set of clothes in Dashain, or just being a hustler in Ktm, where the prevalent colour for pants is ash colour, to go with chappals.

All the other social/cultural dress codes are just that - social and cultural. And individual being in a society, being in a culture, know that, because it is what they have seen and what they have been fed. Hence all red for behay and Teej, white in barakhi, etc.. But Daura suruwal is neither cultural nor social. Show me ONE sub-section of Nepali that wears daura suruwal as part of their socio-cultural identity.

My grandfather wears daura suruwal because that is what he grew up with, what he wore to work, and that is what he has, and what he feels comfortable with. And why did he wear daura surual - when he was a kid, it was a school uniform (actually bhoto and suruwal), and government decreed uniform for govt. offices when he started working... at retirement that is all he has, in addition to a few loongis.

You hardly see men in kilts in Scottish parliament, or in Kimono's in Tokyo markets....

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