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Under the British rule, started a new era and with it the Bengali dress sense also took a significant turn. For the gentlemen too, the century offered a stable fashion. In the British era men used to wear the coat and the trousers emulating the foreigners but the community at large did not accept the fashion. That is why till the mid nineteenth century the English dress code was ignored. To keep compatibility with the modern

 

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era a few changes were made in the conventional fashion and this was believed to suffice. The China coat and the vest were used and for the juniors there was the “Dolai”. Sandles were worn. Men sometimes used the turban and the shawl. The rich instead of a vest wore cloaks. 

The Babus__________________________________________ 

We find a detailed description of the babus in Sri.Shibnath Sashtri’s writings. According to his writings in those days in the middle class

 

families a special creed of people began to assert their culture in the community. Known as the “Babus”, these people were of a happy-go- lucky type and had dark circles round their eyes as a result of living an excessively promiscuous nocturnal life. These people had long cascading hair till the shoulders and used ink powder as dentifrice.

 

They wore fine “Dhoti” with black border, a Muslin vest and round the neck hung a piece of braided white cloth. They wore Chinese shoes fitted with buckles. 

 
 

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