Mahatma Gandhin experiments with dress changed according to the changing attitude to dress in the subcontinent. Main stages in experiments were as given below:
(a) As a boy As a member of u Gujarati Bania family, he usually wore a shirt with a dhoti or pyjama and sometimes a coat.
(b) In London as a student: He cut off the tuft on his head and dressed in a Westerns suit so that no one might laugh at him.
(c) On his return to India: He ware Western suits topped with a turban.
(d)) as a lawyer in Johannesburg: He wore Western clothes
(e) In 23 n Durban: He used lungi kurta with his head shaved, as a sign of morning to rest against the shooting Indian coal miners
(f) In 1915 en India : He dressed like a Kathiawadi peasant