The #psychopathy of tattered clothes
He was an old begger in #TatteredClothes. He stumbled into the compound of our house and we were sorry to see his plight. He was given food, a few coins and some old clothes to cover himself bup properly.. .
That was in my #childhood. Long long ago.
I saw a person in tattered clothes again recently. I was pained again, not because he was poor (he was not). I was in pain because things have come to such a pass that #rich people are wearing such clothes.
It is perhaps a psychological problem. I do not know. May be, it is because they want to be noticed. Everyone if the Western world can afford to be well dressed now and good dress does not get you noticed. So either you expose yourself to an indecent level to get noticed or your wear clothes that draw attention.
But the joke has gone a little too far because now everybody who is young is trying to follow this fashion. Recently I engaged a young boy for a day's work on daily wages basis. While he was tending the plants in my garden I noticed that he was wearing tattered jeans. I had a pair of new trousers which I bought by mistake in the much lower size and could not retuen. I offered him these trousers . He carefully inspected the trousers and returned it to me saying 'I don't wear this type of clothes'. On my asking 'what type of clothes do you wear ?' he pointed towards his tattered jeans proudly.
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