Tailoring a telling tale one may subscribe to the quaint ancient notion that CLOTHES MAKETH MAN OR woman,  or TAYLOR MAKETH MAN and so on but someone comes along and turns that on its own head and we have a MAHATMA GANDHI who took off his togs and got down to showing the poverty in which his nation was kept by the oppressors by WEARING INNER WEAR AS OUTER WEAR [and perhaps pre-dates Marlon Brando in A STREET-CAR NAMED DESIRE?] AND MANAGED IN BRINGING ABOUT THE FAINTING ATTACKS IN A VICTORIAN PRUDISH BRITISH AUDIENCE AT HIS UTTER AUDACITY!

ONCE WHEN HE went over to London to a round table conference the King took one look at his attire or lack of it,  and gave a dirty look at his exposed knees and made a remark on it.  To which the Mahatma replied politely,  'You Majesty,  you are wearing enough for both of us.'

That a highly qualified lawyer should take to wearing what the poorest sections of his society were wearing was a statement that spoke louder than any sirens songs singing a seductive tune of GOING ALONG with the flow and the fashion of the times, could have done!

Not all could have carried it off with equal elan and considering he was of slight build it was okay to go on camera with it, and only with it on but a more meaty man and it would have caused traffic jams perhaps which was why though that was not why a taller and more meatier B.R. AMBEDKAR wore more than was necessary and wore a full suit in the manner of a civilised native which was a statement he was making in his turn about a turnabout from his own beginings!

OF HOW HE HAD GOT FROM WHERE TO WHERE!

It is out of that ILLUSTRIOUS LINEAGE though broken lines of bickering leaders that we derive our democracy from.  That we have somehow ended up with a FIRST FEMALE CHIEF MINISTER FROM A DALIT BACKGROUND IN MAYAWATI IS WHAT BELONGS TO THAT BRILLIANT LINE-UP!