Fashionable finally!

Three times in the last four days, I have received compliments for my attire. Something’s' wrong with the world or is it me?

Last Thursday, colleagues in office found my attire "inspiring". Since they have always thought I am a dork it was a pleasant surprise to them as well as me. Then on Saturday I met old friends from college. Now these gals, they KNOW I am a dork. There was a time back in college they would spend hours lecturing me on the current sense of style. When they saw no improvement, they gave up on the lost cause. None of them ever knew as much about the various stages of completion of our class projects and the dates when we had to submit them so it was okay if the dork chose to hang around with them. Useful.

The same girls, now successful Executives, wives and mothers, (Super-Women really) "ooh- ed and aah-ed" at my choice of clothes and discussed it in great detail. I never knew women could discuss the intricacies of a mix and match selection for over an hour. But then, what do I know? I was pleased that I finally found something to wear that met with their approval 10 years on.

The final feather of course was yesterday at the Infiniti Mall at Versova. I was there to see "The Departed.” (A fabulous movie directed by Martin Scorsese with great acting by Jack Nicholson and Leornado.) At the pop-corn queue, a complete stranger walked up to me and she said, "Lovely outfit" with a big smile on her face. For a second there, I was unable to respond. Then I said a mild Thank you and told her I got the kurta from Ahmedabad. Here I was in the midst of all these beautiful or at least confident and well dressed people and this smart looking lady gives me a compliment on my clothes. Three times in 4 days, not bad at all for a Dork is it?