It's not just parents who get annoyed by baggy jeans
Wearing baggy jeans leaves worshippers' prayers "incomplete", religious authorities in Kashmir are said to have warned.
Muslim priests, or imams, are advising people on their dress
after mosque-goers in Srinigar became annoyed by the fashion for
low-slung denim, reports the Hindustan Times.
It seems the issue has flared up since the fasting month of Ramadan
began last week. The paper quotes a spokesman for the conservative
Jamaat-e-Islami party as saying that to reveal one's back "goes against
Islamic tehzeeb", or culture.The head of another group, the Carvan-e-Islami, points out: "The prayer remains incomplete in such clothes," while others reportedly warn that covering up from waist-to-ankles "is a must". Apparently, seminaries in the city - in Indian-administered Kashmir - have launched social media campaigns to stop the practice, while priests are "thinking of addressing the concern through sermons".
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