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(i) As a boy from a Gujarati bania family he usually wore a shirt with a dhoti or pyjama and sometimes a coat. (ii) When he went to London to study law as a boy of 19 in 1888 he cut off the tuft on his head and dressed in a Western suit so that he would not be laughed at. (iii) On his return he continued to wear Western suits topped with a turban. (iv) As a lawyer in Johannesburg South Africa in the 1890s he still wore Western clothes. (v) In Durban in 1913 Gandhiji first appeared in a lungi and kurta with his head shaved as a sign of mourning to protest against the shooting of Indian coal miners. (vi) On his return to India he decided to dress like a Kathiawadi peasant. (vii) In 1921 he adopted the short dhoti the form of dress he wore until his death.
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