The most familiar image of Mahatma Gandhi is of him seated, bare chested and in a short dhoti, at the spinning wheel. He made spinning on the charkha and the daily use of khadi, or coarse cloth made from homespun yarn, very powerful symbols. These were not only symbols of self-reliance but also of resistance to the use of British mill-made cloth. Mahatma Gandhi's experiments with clothing sum up the changing attitude to dress in the Indian subcontinent. As a boy from a Gujarati Bania family, he usually wore a shirt with a dhoti or pyjama, and sometimes a coat. 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. On his return, he continued to wear Western suits, topped with a turban. As a lawyer in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1890s, he still wore Western clothes. Soon he decided that dressing 'unsuitably' was a more powerful political statement. In Durban in 1913, Gandhi 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. On his return to India in 1915, he decided to dress like a Kathiawadi peasant. Only in 1921 did he adopt the short dhoti, the form of dress he wore until his death. On 22 September 1921, a year after launching the non-cooperation movement, which sought swaraj in one year, he announced: I propose to discard at least up to 31st of October my topi and vest and to content myself with a loincloth, and a chaddar whenever necessary for protection of my body. I adopt the change because I have always hesitated to advise anything I may not be prepared to follow ... ' At this time, he did not want to use this dress all his life and only wanted to 'experiment for a month or two'. But soon he saw this as his duty to the poor, and he never wore any other dress. He consciously rejected the well-known clothes of the Indian ascetic and adopted the dress of the poorest Indian. Khadi, white and coarse, was to him a sign of purity, of simplicity, and of poverty. Wearing it became also a symbol of nationalism, a rejection of Western mill- made cloth. He wore the short dhoti without a shirt when he went to England for the Round Table Conference in 1931. He refused to compromise and wore it even before King George V at Buckingham Palace. When he was asked by journalists whether he was wearing enough clothes to go before the King, he joked that that 'the King had enough on for both of us'!
He spun khadi in a charkha to be woven.
needel and thread and wooden splints
Gandhi refuse to use the clothes made by British.led salt march because of the high taxes on salts.
It was aimed at the British and gandhi refused to us he salt provided by them at high rates.Instead he prepared his own salt from the seashore in famous dandi march.He also boycotted foreign clothes adn promoted the use of handspun traditional Indian khadi.
Get your own salt from the ocean
they mostley make their clothes out of animals skin e.g kangaroos they also use bark to make clothes
They use needles and thread to make the clothes.
Gandhi had a major impact on Indian society as well as out own. He tought the Indians how to be resourceful as well as to use peaceful protest.he is a legend
Gandhi refuse to use the clothes made by British.led salt march because of the high taxes on salts.
It was aimed at the British and gandhi refused to us he salt provided by them at high rates.Instead he prepared his own salt from the seashore in famous dandi march.He also boycotted foreign clothes adn promoted the use of handspun traditional Indian khadi.
Get your own salt from the ocean
What most people from the U.S.A. use to make clothes, FABRIC of course.
They use the anmial skin to make there clothes.
animal clothes
sometimes they use cloth to make clothes
To make a jean jacket, use the plain jeans, the shirt with the heart on it, and the shirt with the star on it.
they mostley make their clothes out of animals skin e.g kangaroos they also use bark to make clothes
they use a needle first then use thred use a spinning wheel and the a themble and then a iron and sew the clothes together
They use needles and thread to make the clothes.