Two women from India have started a trend among females for wearing the country’s traditional sari more regularly.

Ally Matthan and Anju Maudgal Kadam pledged to wear saris twice a week and began posting pictures of themselves on social media. The idea caught on and has become the #100SareePact with lots of others joining in.

I have always thought of the sari as a wonderful looking piece of clothing but in recent times it has become less and less popular with Indian women, who have favoured more modern and perhaps more practical clothes such as jeans.

It is lovely to keep these traditional outfits alive though. There are some great examples out there – the Scottish kilt, the bowler hats of Bolivia, the flamenco dress, the Texas Stetson, the Japanese kimono.. the list goes on.

And don’t you just love watching members of the Royal Family trying to carry these off on their various visits around the world? The recent pictures of Prince William in a Japanese Samurai costume springs to mind!

As an English person, I feel quite disappointed by the fact that we don’t have our own traditional costume for men or women; maybe it’s about time we invented one.

Let’s have a think: for men it could be the tradition of wearing your trousers half way down your bottom – as favoured by both the young generation and builders! This could be coupled with morris dancing style bells around the ankles, socks and sandals and a shirt and tie.

Women could wear something akin to THAT Geri Halliwell Union Jack Dress, coupled with flip flops a huge handbag and a massive Ascot-style hat – the bigger the better!

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