You crib it but you love it. The annoyingly delightful monsoons are roaring loud with the pitter patter blooming the hearts and the muddy puddles and sticky-self playing the spoil sport. Here it is the season of the year when the gliding feet need a rubber boot and the fluttering designer wears ask for an umbrella to retain their sheen. The rains have officially knocked the major part of the country with halts, frowns and wariness and those missing romantic monsoon flights and sing songs need a trendy raingear to go splashy instead of patchy.
The style lies in a statement umbrella serving as the perfect rain shield with the charm of rain all intact. Just hold the colorful pattern full umbrellas available in fun designs, stripes, spots and abstract prints embracing the romantic girlie in you, singing the song while walking down the street. The likes of Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Pallavi Mohan umbrella can be your loving beau this rains. The boring black plastic umbrellas, ala roadside food stalls parasols, are passé. Go for waterproof umbrellas with UV protection and high style quotient to glide all unbothered like the royalty under the umbrellas on their chariot.
The raincoats have never been as stylishly evolved as this season. Put on your favourite piece and kiss the clouds. The bright hued raincoats with a touch of glow and transparency have replaced the dowdy ones this season. Sonia Vajifdar, Burberry and Louis Vuitton have come up with trendy and practical rain jackets, trench coats and zipper coats to up the fashion ante while licking the drizzle. The pieces in net, metallic fibers and leather with hoods, belts, zippers and collars in neon to earthy hues can lend you the wings to fly over the brightest rainbow.
Indian streets unabashedly are a concoction of puddles, ditches, manholes and cesspools, inappropriately obnoxious to your Jimmy Choos and Pradas. So this rains pigeon hole your stilettoes for designer rain boots. Rubber boots, waterproof flip flops, slippers and closed shoes are perfect to stay dry this monsoon. Water proof watches can keep you in sync with errant metrological department predictions.
