{"id":216,"date":"2014-03-28T13:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T07:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moodsofcloe.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:13:52","slug":"being-beautiful-is-a-feeling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clovia.com\/blog\/being-beautiful-is-a-feeling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Beautiful Is a Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, at a fashion show, I was thinking how fashion has changed us all.\"\"<\/p>\n

One of my friends, who has now \u2018made it\u2019 in the fashion world had sent me an invite and I was seated in the front row, right up there close to the ramp. When the dolled-up models started to sashay on the catwalk one after the other, I couldn\u2019t help but notice how comfortable they seemed in those hip-high slit long gowns, off-shoulder dresses and those oh-so-sheer tops that looked so haute! I started to wonder when did fashionable lingerie creep up on us? Did it come in with the swinging sixties of Bollywood (borrowed from the swinging sixties of Hollywood!!! LOL!!). Or did it come with the British Raj and their girdled girlies? Or was it princely India of the Kamasutra age where women took hours to get decked-up in very little clothes\u2026..they would have made today\u2019s see-thru naughty nightwear\u00a0or night dress<\/a> and peek-a-boo balconette bras<\/a> blush!! And yet, there were no catcalls or hoots from the men (who also wore next to nothing, you know\u2026.bare-chested waist up and all that). I guess everybody must\u2019ve been comfortable with their bodies and how they looked. If I know anything about fashion, about culture and civilization, it\u2019s this \u2013 ancient tribes liked to decorate and show off their physical beauty. Being civilised probably had less to do with covering up and more with \u2018if you have it, flaunt it\u2019. These days, why do most people, especially women and girls, feel some sort of shame about their own bodies, their own feminity? I don\u2019t get it. Why do many women want to be cowboys with a bad-ass attitude put on to look a little bindaas maybe? Nothing wrong with that \u2013 to each her own thing I guess. But why not celebrate feminine beauty?<\/p>\n

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\nIt\u2019s the 21st century and things are changing. Agreed that men\u2019s general attitude towards women and their sensuality won\u2019t change overnight and they sure won\u2019t start behaving from Monday morning. But women who stay in hiding aren\u2019t helping any. You don\u2019t have to make a flag out of your red bra<\/a>\u00a0and go for a motorcycle ride. But I think we women should start having some fun and come out of the closet to live our dreams, live they way we like to. I\u2019m going to start with my dressing room and get comfortable with my own beauty, for starters. Love handles be damned! (remember those bountiful rings of puppy fat around men\u2019s waists, they\u2019re called tyres my kittens!!).
\nLet\u2019s just start feeling good about ourselves and less apologetic about our curves (or the lack of them). Let\u2019s just start looking good all over again. In clothes and out of them!!<\/p>\n