Why are new clothes worn on an auspicious day?

The scriptures have stated specific actions on the perspective of a person while wearing new clothes and about deriving benefit at the spiritual level.

• An auspicious beginning to wearing of new clothes should be done on festivals.

• New clothes should be worn after placing them in front of the Deities.

• Before wearing new clothes, offering them to others to wear.

On specific days like the festivals, the Principles of specific Deities descend onto the earth and are active in a higher proportion. By wearing new clothes on such days, the clothes absorb the frequencies of the Principles of the Deities and become sāttvik. The subtle-bodies of a person are purified by these frequencies and he also becomes capable of absorbing them. He also benefits from such sattvik clothes all around the year. Click here to read more.

• 1. Auspicious beginning to wearing of new clothes
  • 1.1 Reasons for auspicious beginning to wearing of new clothes on a particular day
  • 1.2 Underlying science in placing new clothes in front of the Deities before wearing them
  • 1.3 Underlying science in offering new clothes to others to wear first
  • 1.4 Underlying science in washing brand new clothes, before using them
• 2. Effects of wearing used clothes
  • 2.1 Effects of wearing unwashed and washed cotton clothes
  • 2.2 Effects of wearing unwashed and washed silk clothes
  • 2.3 Effects of wearing unwashed clothes
  • 2.4 Effects of wearing washed clothes
  • 2.5 Effects of wearing unwashed clothes with perfume sprayed on them