In Manish Malhotra
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Wearing a Manish Malhotra long anarkali, Diana attended a Diwali party on Wednesday evening. Looks like the outfit was so long, that even she had to wear platform sandals to make the pants work.
Having said that though, it’s an outfit that would’ve felt overwhelming on some but didn’t on her. She looked lovely.
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Diana Penty
Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani
Some people have an understated elegance that makes even the gaudiest of outfits look better. Diana is one such person!
Otherwise, the bottom part of that Anarkali is lost cause.
You’ve said it already! Some people have an endless reserve of grace.
I’ll tell you what that elegance is. It is the delicateness that she gets by virtue of her height and her narrow frame. One could be tall and broader, which has its own appeal, but a slender frame makes you look fragile. It is also her posture, pose, and her facial expressions, all of which are measured but also exhibit a sense of ease – being confident but not in your face aggressive confident. And ofcourse her makeup, natural, not very flamboyant. Ive often noticed we find delicate ladies more elegant. I’m going to get all Marxian here, but I think that comes from such delicateness being a sign of not being someone who labours. Which subconsciously we equate with royalty/upper class/caste etc. Which is aspirational and hence attractive. It would be interesting to dwell on things we find attractive and not so atractive, it might reveal to us our own deeply held notions and beliefs. An interesting exercise.
Good write up!
That’s an utterly persuasive argument and I’m tempted to agree whole-heartedly with you. But then I realise it would be remiss of me to ignore all those women around us who aren’t necessarily slender or conventionally pretty, and yet their inherent grace could be “aspirational”, to use your term. At a superficial level, our conditioning does prompt us to admire anyone who meets the predictable standards of beauty. But that applies mostly to people associated with glamour and fashion; it’s their physical attributes that meets our biased eye, and we aren’t digging deeper to see anything beyond that. (I’m sure they might be worth more than their physical beauty.) But when it comes to the world we live in, grace stops being exclusive to royalty, upper class, or caste. We may have our own real icons of elegance amidst us, at our workplace, among our friends and acquaintances. In my case, these include women not born into privilege, with hands as rough as they can get with daily chores, and with faces wrinkled with the hardships life has thrown at them. We have the prerogative of understanding beauty in our own ways and fortunately grace has nothing to do with the clothes or makeup you wear, or the face and figure you inherited. Just my two cents!
Agree with you
Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s.
Good one 🙂 I did realize that just as I was done posting it. I’m cringing right now, but had to get it off my chest.
Haha it’s all good!
A. I had to look up what this means 😛 and I’m a millennial albeit not very meme-aware
B. Ha ha
C. There is potential here for me to go on another rant about how the comments space should have a culture of free expression and that tangential thoughts offer an opportunity for creativity to happen etc. However, there is also a probability here that you are just being funny. In which case I resort to point B as a response to you.
D. #geekyandiknowit #nerdzzrule
I have to agree with the above comment! Diana personifies elegance! Her height definitely helps the busy outfit look good on her.
Not too crazy about the outfit but Diana wears it well.
Diana is elegance and grace personified.
Great height n lovely face. She was quite good in Cocktail. Don’t know why she didn’t get good films after that.
this outfit looks like what you get on a replica store but she made the outfit work for her
My pet peeve: why make the top so long that one can’t see the churidaar/pants? What’s the point then? Might as well wear a maxi.