In the process of finding The One…you meet all kinds of people…recently in my search I came across a lady who said I was “fayshanable” - meaning fashionable. Dont get me wrong…I dont think Im fashionable at all…extremely average desi girl here.
The way she said it though was more of an accusation…like it was wrong to want to look nice. If I meet a guy, I shouldnt care about what my hair looks like? Or should I go looking like a bhangi…will that earn me more points?
In order to be considered seedhi saadhi…you have to rub mitti on your face and look like a paindu?
'fayshonable' in our lingo does not only mean that the girl wears sleeveless blouses and skirts. A girl could be called that if she is too much into pop music or attends musical and social gatherings or plays cricket with boys :D
uhm.nobody likes people who dont know how to dress up these days. By saying you are fashionable she had objection on how you dress. Aunty thori pagall hain. ignore karo.
For some, "fashionable" means showing skin (sleeveless shalwar kameez/capris, etc) or wearing fitted stuff, u may not agree with it, but alot of ppl believe that.
I was wearing a long dress (knee length), a cardigan, leggings and heels. No skin. Is that too fashionable?
Would a guy even like a girl who was dressed in ill fitted shalwar kameez and had frizzy hair?
Pakistanis and their use of wrong words or expression to say something completely different. It was a probably a dumb way to say the girl is well groomed/presentable, now you can be well groomed without having an 'it'/fashionable appearnce. Now please don't tell me you don't think you are well groomed lol, otherwise we'll just have to admit that lady was seeing things. lol
If it was a potential rista, i think she expected you to wear shalwar kameez when meeting her and her son or whatever... atleats first time:P. Also liberal pakistanis expect this mostly, cultural thing. They dont say anything about it though, but they would like you to.
The fact that she brought it,..... errrrrrrrrr is weird.
This is not an auntie or older relative. She was a bhabi. She was also wearing capris herself.
And this was not the first time I met her. Every time I see her, I am wearing shalwar kameez but the ONE time I am not because I DO have other clothes in my closet…I am now fayshanable.
They ARE hareem…her daughter is ten years old and cracks dirty jokes. Jokes that make even me blush.
Well, if she was 'fayshanable' herself, then maybe she didn't want the competition?
But yeah, it seems to get used as a catch all term; supposedly modern, independent, assertive, an understanding of colour coordination - it all adds up to fayshanable.
Okay let me be the devil's advocate here, maybe she didn't mean it in that way?
Sometimes words come out harsher than they intend to, maybe she was paying you a compliment or just stating a fact, rather than try to accuse u of anything.
Some people just have a way of speaking that makes anything they say sound worse than it really is...
