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One word. Peer pressure.
The class differences, upbringing, location everything contributes to how a person is dressed.
Pervading all this is a person's urge to be similar to the people we move around with. We want to be "Unique" as a group.
Since urban ways of living are so hyped, everyone wants to emulate the same.
Clothes, for some incomprehensible reason, seem to have an effect on the way you think.
You are cool, modern and all the jazz if you wear Western clothes because "Westerners" are so progressive. ( No offense. Its just another jibe at how Indians seem to consider them to be the epitome of all that is good)
Having said that, you are lucky to have not been ridiculed for wearing Western clothes. That is more rampant even in Metropolitan cities.
Indians or for that matter all have to stop judging a person by the clothes worn. I know guys who prefer their girlfriends to wear jeans but want the wives to be saree or salwar clad.
P.S: Two problems with your post.
1. Indian Culture has nothing to do with the clothes you wear
2. Who cares whether you were wearing silk or cotton? They probably felt you were over or under dressed depending on the place you visited.
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