Describe Mahatma Gandhi'* experiment with clothing during his lifetime.
As a boy 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 *** the tuft on his head and dressed in a western suit.
On his return, he continued to wear western suits with a turban. As a lawyer in South ** in the 1890s, he still wore western clothes.
In Durban in 1913, Gandhi first appeared in a lungi and kurta with a shaved head as a sign of mourning to protest against the **** of Indian coal miners.
On his return to India in 1915, he decided to dress like a kathiawadi peasant. In 1921, during the non-cooperation movement, he adopted the short dhoti or loincloth with a chaddar. This dress he continued to wear until his *****.