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The Question Of Dress by Syed Abul A’la Maududi

THE QUESTION OF DRESS

The principal factors which accustom different nations to different styles of dress, we shall find that they divide into eight categories.

• Geographical conditions, which compel the inhabitants of a country to adopt a particular kind of dress and living.

• Moral and religious nations, whose divergence make nations use dissimilar dresses.

• Taste, the natural faculty of taste is, in the case of each nation, worked upon by peculiar influences. It, therefore, develops in each nation differently. As a result the likes and dislikes of nations differ.

• The mode of life, which, too, develops distinctively in the case of each nation, conforming as it does to the distinctive geographical, economic, intellectual, and moral conditions of that nation. Consequently, each nation uses a dress which is best suited to her mode of life.

• The economic situation. This includes a nation’s general means of living, her vocations and industries, her strong or weak financial position, etc. The dress of each nation is closely related to the state of her economy and change with a change in the latter.

• Culture and refinement. Each nation exists on a certain level of culture and refinement and her dress necessarily keeps to that level.

• National traditions, by means of which one generation inherits from another a particular style of living and dress, and, altering that style here and there, bequeaths it to the coming generation
• . This continuity in the phenomena of life is actually a guarantee of continued national existence. Naturally, it is held dear by every nation.

• Extraneous influences, which are exercised upon the thoughts and living patterns of every nation as she come into contact with other nations. But the nature and extent of these influences are determined largely by the political, intellectual, and moral climate of the nation in question.