(i) Nationalists such as Motilal Nehru, a successful barrister from Allahabad gave up his expensive Western-style suits and adopted the lndian dhoti and kurta.
(ii) There were nationalists like B.R. Ambedkar who never gave up the Western-style suit. Many Dalits also wore three-piece suits, shoes and socks on all public occasions.
(iii) A woman wrote to Gandhiji from Maharashtra that she was too poor to buy khadi, so she wore a nine-yard long sari.
(iv) Other women like Sarojini Naidu and Kamala Nehru, wore coloured
saris with designs, instead of coarse, white homespun khadi.