Thinking about my personal dressing makes me realize one think my dressing is far from what’s my cultural dressing is actually suppose to be. As I dress in a more western way or in a most 21^st century way. Basically Jeans, T-shirts, sneakers are my most common everyday wear. But, climate also contributes greatly in my daily dressing as rainy day means I cannot wear my suede sneakers or for sunny days I wont wear a jacket. In this view, I dress as any collage kid would dress around the world. This does not signify any cultural belief upheld by me as Indian, rather I think this type of dressing does signify the culture of our time. I think that every time or era have its own culture as for example; in the 70s bell bottoms jeans were deeply in style however this is not so true for the present decade in which, most of the younger generation prefer wearing jeans that are as skinny as possible. Though time plays a great role in determining the type of dress code I think another factor that as equally responsible in choices of style is age. As different age groups always have different preference in terms of style and dress code. Many people in there 30s or 40s do not were converse or vans or ridiculous shirts that points out they drink or say stuff like “babe magnet”. There is a difference in terms of choice in different age group and mine basically signify that of a collage kid which, Is mostly the cause why I presently dress the way that I do. However, this was not always the case as few years ago when I was still in mother care my dressing sense was very different then now. Mostly, my mother choose my cloths and her choices, now that I think about it would not be something that I would consider wearing.

My family is originally from an Indian background but I was born and raised outside of India. Though not being raised in India, my family has passed down to me many traditional Indian traits including but not limited to the language, cultural belief and religion. However, in thins I have always been thought that Indian woman are to wear “saris” and “salwar kurta” are traditional attire. Piercing of nose and ears are additional adornments that are part of the Indian culture of woman also. However, unlike girls boys on the other hand not have much cultural specification for how him or her should dress. Basically its Indian cultural attire for man are traditional “kurta” but being born and brought up in a foreign country it was never actually necessary for me to practice such traditional dressing. However, on the other hand even in most of India such body adornment practices are mostly only practiced in events and not as a everyday casual wear. As for me my family was never specific in terms of how should I customize my body in terms of dressing. We basically practices western dressing and match with the crowd of were we lived. Other form of body adornment like piercing and tattoos are not part of Indian cultural belief and therefore weren’t practiced by my parents. Though they are not forbidden my family always had an indifferent nature towards it. My family is more western and belief in rationality more over culture and religion. They belief of body adornment is shown by wearing an expensive designer suit, shoes and an expensive watch. This type of adornment does not reflect on me at this point in life but are types of adornment that interest me the most.

My peer community, which is the American community and culture, is driven by an extensive nature of consumerism. In such light, there are many ways of body adornment including but not limited to tattoos, piercing, and fancy dressing. Though they’re many others in my belief these are the most widely practiced among all. Tattoos I think are the most common as in American as according to a NBC poll in 2014 about 40% of Americans have some form of tattoo and the number is actually growing. This can even be seen in our university campus as many students have some form of tattoo. The second form that I think is equally common as tattoo is fancy dressing. In a consumerist society is no surprise that fancy dressing is one major form of customization as the entire economy runs on the fact that people want something better and cheaper. Thus the successful accomplishment in the clothing industry can show how important and successful is dressing adornment in America.

The first person that caught my attention while walking past the bench I am sitting on in Starbucks, is an African- American guessing from his accent and skin color. He is basically in kind of a sports ware north face jacket, sweat pants and some beats headphone around his head. He was walking with another one his friend and they were talking after picking up their Starbucks drinks on their way out. Looking at his dressing, behavior, and location I think he is really interested in sports probably even a sportsman and a collage student due to him being at a collage Starbucks and around the university with a backpack. He looks really fit, definitely work’s out judging by the muscles. Probably between the age if 20-23 and judging from the evening Starbucks is probably about to go to the library to study. I think he was Christian though I don’t have any proof or explanation to my thought here. Well most these assumption are merely based on his physical appearance and location with the exception of the religion belief. I think I feel he is Christian because I’ve lived in a Christian country in West Africa and due to the fact that most of my friends were African and Christian he too would have the same belief.

Secondly, Another Asian male who is presently waiting for his coffee caught my attention. I think in this case he caught my attention among the other four people that are waiting at the counter is because of his unique hair style as he have something like a pony tail in the middle of his head with really low cut on the sides. He is basically wearing a shirt and some jeans and really expensive looking Nike sneakers. Judging with the no backpack and jacket and Asian background, I think that he has a car and left his backpack and jacket in the car and is just grabbing a Starbucks on his way home. He is alone waiting, on his iPhone the entire wait time, seems like he was texting someone. He was definitely a male, barely over 20 in age, could be a Chinese, was a little skinny but healthy and doesn’t look like he works out. I cant seem to think about his religion as I don’t know much about Chinese belief but I think he could be a Buddhist. This basically suggest my thought for Asian especially on the university campus is that they are all or mostly basically rich.

The third person that I have noticed or have been noticing is this really cute girl sitting on the very opposite side of I’m sitting and we are basically facing each other. Well, she have been sitting there with something that looks like a iced latte drink even before I entered Starbucks and seems to be doing some sort of homework probably writing an essay. She is wearing glasses, and has short hair. Her cloths is hard to describe as it looks like a t-shirt but judging by the feathery look I don’t think it’s a t-shirt however, she is definitely wearing a jeans and some boots. Well she is definitely female, about 18 or 19 years of age, she’s white probably an American, and seems a little stress probably due to schoolwork. One think this says about my values is that I am definitely attracted towards girls, and I can relate with her in terms of schoolwork.