Obama's India visit: Narendra Modi wears traditional kurta pajama as he receives US President

NEW DELHI: Often praised for his dressing style, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wore the traditional kurta pajama, his trademark Nehru vest and a stole as he received US President Barack Obama at the airport here.

While Modi sported a vibrant attire in which red and golden coloured stole stood out, Obama was attired in a more business-like dark suit. His wife Michelle was in a flowing blue and black dress.

Modi later changed to a formal pinstripe 'bandhgala' suit at the Rashtrapati Bhawan where Obama was given a ceremonial welcome.

The Indian Prime Minister's sartorial taste had also invited glowing commentary in the US newspapers during his visit to that country in June to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

Three major US publications -- Time, New York Times and the Washington Post -- had lauded his dressing style from his "trademark Modi Kurta" to his tunic.

The New York Times in an article titled 'A Leader Who Is What He Wears' had said "even by the standards of a world that has seen blogs devoted to Michelle Obama's dress sense, the pre-election makeovers of Francois Hollande and Dilma Rousseff, and the canonisation of Nelson Mandela's shirts, the image-craft of India's new prime minister, Narendra Modi -- and its fashion fallout -- has been something of a case study."