“Amit likens fashion to a mask, and style to beauty of countenance.
Style, he feels, belongs to the literary elite, who live by their own
wishes. And fashion is for the ordinary lot, who make it their business
to please other people. . . . You may view a professional dancing girl
beneath the awning of a public marquee; but for the first glimpse of the
bride’s face during the
shubhodrishti ritual, a veil of
Benarasi fabric is required. The marquee belongs to fashion, the
Benarasi veil--which reveals the special one’s countenance shaded by a
special hue--to style.”
―
Rabindranath Tagore,
Farewell Song
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