As the nationalist movement gained steam and Indians turned away from foreign imports — replacing Western clothing with homespun khadi cloth, for example — nationalists found in the old hatha yoga the basis for a physical culture that was distinctly Indian.
At the time of the collapse, the factory was making clothes for major western clothing brands.
The two dozen or so Western clothing companies and retailers whose clothes were being made in Rana Plaza should also contribute.
Mori, one of the most vigorous westernizers of the group, wore Western clothing, engaged in ballroom dancing, and even advocated the writing of Japanese in the Latin alphabet.
I saw clean and reasonably well-clothed people wearing recycled Western clothing, no matter how remote the location.
Besides, she added, "everyone wears Western clothing here these days".
That, however, is precisely what western clothing manufacturers are doing.
Her father sold Western clothing; her mother stayed home.
In June a college in Uttar Pradesh banned female students from wearing "vulgar western" clothing.
In Kosovo's largely secular society, most people dress in Western clothing.
"I'm for the Spaceport," said Cherrill Sullivan, who owns a western clothing shop here.
