First weekend after salary, it’s all about shopping. Even
after listing some 10 dresses, matching footwear and accessories, It still seems
so less! And in reality once I head to shopping with that list, end of shopping
the list really looks small for all that I would have shopped. Such are these days...
It seems miracle when I sit back and think about those childhood
days when we were studying and Appa, Amma struggling to meet the ends. Life
wasn’t this easy both Appa and Amma combined dint earn more than few thousands
and all of that used to vanish in home loans, kids expenses, health, home
maintenance and some to take care of people back home. But even with all these constraints Appa, Amma
managed to fulfill most of our desires and for those which they couldn’t they
really managed very well to explain us why we can’t get all that we want.
It was during those days that buying a new dress really
meant there was some reason or an occasion associated with it. We never really
got a dress without any reason. Trust me, it had to be one of these, a festival
(considering 4 big festivals) so its 4 per year, Birthday 1 new dress per year,
and then some close kin of us is getting married then by luck 1 more new dress.
So that’s it maximum 6-7 dress per year. Even Appa and Amma, had never bought a
piece of cloth if not for any of these reason and for them it was even lesser.

And the footwear trust me, until me and my sis were out of 7th
grade, we never got to wear anything other than the famous Hawai chappal. It
was my Appa’s thought that they were the only ones which would last long and so no matter what the dress we wear its only hawai chappal we
wore with that. My beautiful sister was style conscious from that very
young age and kept cribbing that she would like a Cinderella shoes with her new
frocks preferably with a heel. And even after repeated cribbing and crying when
she dint get a heeled Shoe, she chose
to protest and that too how cleverly! She simply wore hawai chappal and walked
around raising her heel that’s when everybody started questioning Appa, Amma
and they were tired answering that there was nothing wrong with her legs. And
soon she got a new Cinderella shoes.
As my eyes wondered through my sister’s collection of marvellous stilettos, pumps, peep toes, wedges, crocks, pointed heels and as
I see my sis beautifully walk in them today, I still remember my little sister
walking around in her new dress and a hawai chappal and with that, her little
pretty feet raised up. And that’s how my darling sister ended an era of a new dress and a hawai chappal!
P.S: This
is my 150th post. Thanks a
lot to you all, for being there to listen to my stories…