There used to be a dress code for occasions but it is dying out very
fast.. These days, highly educated males wear casual dress even at big
functions, including nuptial ceremonies, feast mass, Christmas, New
Year, Easter, etc. and the least educated are seen with suits on! Does
that make them more educated than the ones wearing casual wear?
Here is another example: People who are well read mostly fail to carry a
pen with them but a person who can barely write his name never fails to
carry a pen with him. Does that determine his level of education?
There was a time organizers of big dances in Goa emphasized on a dress
code but these days they don't because they do not wish to limit the
entry to 'formally dressed crowd only.'
During colonial times, almost every grown up male, however poor he was,
had a suit, which he got made at his wedding. He wore that suit for all
occasions, including funerals. Over the years it came to be known as
"Sonsticho fato or suit" (suit of generations) because it would last
from his wedding to his children's wedding(s) and finally he would be
buried with it. That generation is long gone and ours will follow suit.
We have to move with the times!
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna, Goa
Mob: 9420979201
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> COMMENT : There is always a
> dress code for occasions. It display the level of your education. Do
you not
> wear a suit in Church for the nuptial ceremony? Similarly for the
Feast Mass
> one should be formally dressed just as for Christmas, Easter, etc.
You are not
> obliged and not even advised to wear a suit for your < "festachi
> feri" (feast fair)>.
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