1. Clothes do give a message, as the clothes of Sans Culottes did. They were men without knee breeches different from the aristocrats who wore knee-length breeches.
2. Their clothing, loose and comfortable along with colour of France — blue, white and red – was a sign of patriotic citizens.
3. Gandhi made homespun khadi a symbol of national sentiment and his dress code of short dhoti was his way of identifying with the poorest Indian. Khadi became a symbol of purity, simplicity and poverty.