Now that the Delhi Couture Week is over, parents are having a stressful time.

After Couture, it's kotoor

Now that the Delhi Couture Week is over, parents are having a stressful time. The mommies of models, designers and journalists and all those who were involved in the five-day long affair are wondering how to deal with their kids, many of whom seem to be suffering from post show trauma. The sudden lull after the demanding deadlines, non-stop socialising, haywire sleeping patterns, drinking and smoking has left their offsprings dazed.
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"What do we feed them? They shrink away in horror at our aloo paranthas and butter chickens," laments a model's mother. Well, if we too were to survive on dewdrops and sunshine for days (or maybe thermogenic supplements, diuretics, appetite-suppressants and amphetamines) getting back to dal-rotis would be a Herculean task.

Another dilemma troubles them. Sashaying on anything which looks like a runway is harmless but sleepwalking in pencil heels on the terrace parapet is making the folks lose sleep.u00a0u00a0

The designers aren't faring well either. Some wake up at night to re-check their parents' and siblings' wardrobes, sewing up small tears. Others have become friendly with neighbours they once despised. A few are reported to be found sitting in their neighbours' homes with awestruck teenagers who read Harry Potter explaining Pret-a-porter.

The bouncers haven't escaped the trauma either. Much to the embarrassment of their family, they aren't allowing the milkman and the dhobi to enter withoutu00a0 identification. Long-distance relatives are turned back if they fail to explain the purpose of visit.

Ask the parents of the journalists and fashion critics and they have their own woes. The first-timers keep dropping words like Rucci, Pucci and Gucci. "All they keep doing is kootoor, kootoor," complains a confused mother. The senior fashion critics are finding faults in the way their family dresses.

These are not new problems. At the end of every fashion week such incidents have been noticed. Maternal instinct has taken over and mothers of veteran fashion show survivors have already started coaching the newly initiated. Some are even toying with the idea of proposing a trauma centre in AIIMS. Perhaps the FDCI president, the courteous gentleman he always is, could come to their rescue, that is, if he himself is not suffering from the trauma.

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