CocoLion: No worries, there's lots of pretty serious designers and a lot of very stylish women in India who have been and continue to be taken with Nehru's preferred look To give the devil his due, his was a fairly conservative and unimaginative version, apart from the cap (aka Gandhi topi, though Gandhi is not known for wearing one!). The 'Nehru collar' (his coat style) actually predates him, and the coat and pants, with the tunic beneath are to men's ethnic formalwear in India what the 3-piece suit is in the West.
Since about the 80s especially, but even earlier to some extent, women's fashion has also adopted that silhouette and those specific pieces. Nehru collars are seen on men's dress shirts (worn with regular Western-style pants) as well as women's tunics, and even make it to the short 'choli' blouse worn with sarees or the longer version with lehengas/ghagras (the long skirt ensemble for women).
Going a little off-topic, it's pretty fascinating how fashion evolves! Men's casual wear these days often features jeans with a short shirt that has a Nehru collar and just enough of an opening to slip over the neck (instead of buttons all the way down the front). The original design for these shirts was based on very casual clothes, almost in the realm of underwear. When I think about it, the equivalent would be T-shirts suddenly all sporting lapels instead of crew necks because we all came to admire Lincoln's look!
In northern India, men's wedding suits are almost always still based on the same Nehruvian template, with an added stole and often a cartload of embroidered embellishments. Indian designers often have a deep leaning towards party clothes and eveningwear precisely because our traditionally elephantine trousseaus and week-long (or longer!) wedding 'events' are their biggest source of income by leaps and bounds!
