The Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad, Print Edition, published a photo of a male model wearing a nose-ring on his left nostril. The ring was fastened to an ornament on the left ear, by means of a chain running along the cheeks. The chain has some tiny bells also. The ornament is white in color presumably either of Platinum or silver.
Place: Men's Fashion Fair 2007, Bangalore.
Date : Oct. 24, 2007.
Designed by: Shri Rohit Bal.
Cost/Price: Not known.
The photo is very amusing. With a strong urge to a give a link to our readers, I made a long search on the Net for an electronic edition of the news. Unfortunately, I could not trace.
COMMENTS
We cannot find fault with the designer because he works in a competitive environment. But the designer is said to be a seasoned veteran, with his photo featured in TIME Magazine.
NO NORMATIVE CRITICISM
I do not want to indulge in a criticism involving "NORMs" of what fashion should be or should not be.
PROBABILITIES OF WORLD MALES WEARING NOSE RINGS
We see on TV, not only male models, but also film heros, cricketers, et al wearing ear rings, on both the ears or on a single ear. Late N.T. Rama Rao, screen idol and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh used to sport an ear pendant studded with stone. Whatever the heros and the Cricketers do, the Indians copy more or less blindly.
CUMBERSOME
Whether fashionable or not nose rings are cumbersome to wear. Thousands of women in India discontinued using nose ornaments, particularly nose rings linked to ears. Only rich women wear them on ceremonial occasions.
HISTORY OF SLAVERY
Even today, in India shrew cattle and rams are quite often fastened with a rope running through their nostrils and pulled, so as to control them and make them move. In the early years of Indian history, human slaves both and female might have been fastened through a nasal rope and ring. Over hundreds of years, it might have developed into metalic ornaments. Traditionally, women were considered the property of the men, and most of their ornaments have the central element of CHAIN AND RING.
MALE NASAL ORNAMENTS IN MYTHOLOGY
Lord Krishna serves as the best model for a wearer of a nasal ring. He used to wear a pearl, as per the following Sanskrit verse.
Kastuurii tilakam lalaat`a falakee
Vaksha sthalee kaustubham,
Nasaagree nava mauktikam
kara talee veen`um, karee kankan`am ...
CONCLUSION
Nose piercers, ear piercers and goldsmiths will get some work to do.
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