White people are hilarious when it comes to cultural appropriation, be it copying our Peshawari chappals, our truck art patterns, our kohlapuris or our ajrak print. But this time, they let it go a little too far by posting pictures of normal kurties and angrakhas, that too without shalwar or pajamas, only to call them ‘Boho Vintage Dresses.’ And they were proper kameezein, some A line, some straight, some paneled and some actual angrakhas, the reactions were absolutely hilarious!
Umm, yeah! A website that goes by the name Thrifted got their hands on some kurtis to sell, except, they weren’t the dresses they thought they were and people lost their minds!
https://twitter.com/dxya_d/status/1170322062625296385
Many shared how the dress was okay as long as it was on a white body:
One time, I wore my Indian outfit into a grocery store and a man walked all the way down the aisle just to tell me and my mom to “go back to where it’s okay to dress like that.”
Apparently my culture is “okay”, but only when it’s on a white body. pic.twitter.com/Iczr5nmWDW— Tan 🍯 (@tanyamamootil) September 10, 2019
Precisely:
https://twitter.com/HBukhari/status/1171748847552356353
People were appalled at the audacity!
https://twitter.com/poisonmebitchhh/status/1171137837208690688
People were calling out on the looks they’d get whenever they wore it:
https://twitter.com/_aishak99/status/1171967709715881985
Some wanted to call the police!
https://twitter.com/apurkle/status/1171282954041143298
People were sharing pictures of them wearing the very boho vintage dress:
https://twitter.com/kelluuxxx/status/1171178114568871937
https://twitter.com/_shezazafar/status/1171566405977874432
https://twitter.com/sssilwal/status/1171179861756526592
Us too!
https://twitter.com/tjames786/status/1171751900053721088
Honestly, our families be welcoming us with chappals and chhittars if we wore this to one of our family gatherings:
https://twitter.com/Sanjana_yeol/status/1171427910856478720
Imagine going to a family event wearing this "vintage boho dress" 💀💀
— tania (@couldbanywhere) September 10, 2019
The desi girls were not coming slow!
https://twitter.com/trevmoores/status/1171485651058876419
Well, the brits version:
https://twitter.com/Its_aqsa_bro/status/1171796737771655170
Sigh!
https://twitter.com/miyanisaxo/status/1171422013182767104
I guess we’ll never know:
https://twitter.com/retrogrid/status/1171699584936099840
Someone please tell them:
Vintage Boho Dress??? Oh girl you're wearing damn Kameez with no shalwar. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/5ZyXIEM40a
— میمستان (@meem_istan) September 13, 2019
I mean, just the sound of it:
lol “vintage boho dress” you know https://t.co/UxNwawDGHa
— amrita🍉 (@amr_ita) September 11, 2019
It made people sick!
VINTAGE BOHO DRESS?!?!?!?!?? i’m gonna throw up https://t.co/VO7l7tC4Hb
— زرين🔻 (@zdoesnotexist) September 9, 2019
Some wanted to know what these people were smoking:
VINTAGE BOHO DRESS SOSNDKD IM OUT pic.twitter.com/2GTkx8RvjX
— moved (@103949394d) September 10, 2019
And while many were calling them out of cultural appropriation, some were legit concerned about them selling an anarkali had worn long time ago for a lot of money:
I'm really concerned about shadas,,, sweetie wtf is a vintage boho dress that's an Anarkali that we threw out about 10yrs ago😑😂 pic.twitter.com/at5Gcbsyu9
— suba⁷･ᴗ･ 💜_semi ia (@illegirl143_twt) September 10, 2019
Some were left speechless!
https://twitter.com/itsmagicaI/status/1171317028327698433
vintage boho dress…………..girl idek what to say at this point https://t.co/GDsoG5KuJ7
— ﾟ𐦍༘⋆ ❯❯❯❯ (@sheefa_1d) September 10, 2019
The pieces have now been removed from the website after people started calling them out but we just can’t get over it! What do you guys think about this fiasco? Let us know in the comments below!