The bikini is not the touchstone of women’s empowerment, and neither does a head-to-toe covering always indicate a vacuum of individual agency. 

According to a Kerala professor, women wearing jeans bear transgender or autistic children, as it degrades their womanhood. During a counselling session, he said, “A woman who dresses up like a man. What will be the character of the child this woman gives birth to? The name of these children is ‘transgender’ or ‘napumsakam’. Hijra. […]

Remind me again, currently which century we are living in? In a bizarre turn of events, a former English teacher at a Tirupati-based private school was allegedly terminated for wearing western clothes to work. English teacher in Tirupati was sacked for turning up to school in Western attire, as the school stated that her attire […]

The ‘Purdah’ system has played spoilsport in a woman’s career. In a recent case, a Muslim woman had to change her plan to join the teacher training course at an institute in Malappuram district of Kerala after she was told that she could not attend classes in purdah. Husna, who was aiming to pursue her BEd […]

A letter by the Bishop — to not let women who wear short dresses enter the church — has raised the hackles of Christian women in Kerala.

Coco Chanel’s biggest contribution to fashion has to be the signature Little Black Dress. The LBD that you wear even today was first designed by the legendary designer in the 20s when women only used to wear corsets and other confining garments. She sort of liberated women from the confines of those kind of clothing […]

The Government Medical College in Kerala’s capital, Trivandram, has issued a dress code to its female students which instructs them not to wear jeans, leggings, short tops or noisy ornaments. The vice-principal of the college issued these rules in a circular on October 20, and asked women to only wear churidar or saree, and to […]