Kamruzzaman Bablu :
Eid-ul-Fitr may still be 13 days away, but shoppers are already very busy to choose their wears. They are descending on the shopping malls in the capital’s Gulshan, Banani, Uttara and Dhanmondi areas. Local fabrics are their best choice this year. The youths and the teenage have special passion for all those products bearing global standard, said traders.
However, due to diversified designs, comparatively for cheaper prices and better quality, the fashion lovers still prefer local wears taking their traditionally and culturally rich designs into consideration.
Traders said, although the Indian and Pakistani designed fabrics have flooded different markets of the city, most of these are copied from the local cloths which are manufactured on the outskirts and old parts of the city.
Jinat Ara, owner of Ramonia, a leading boutiqe and fashion house in the city said “local boutique houses have earned customers love in the last 20 years, and the number is increasing due to ability of local fashion houses to ensure quality and new designed products during every festive occasion.”
“Buyers in these parts of the city are somewhat different from other areas of Dhaka,” she said.
She also said that the local fashion houses would be able to build their capacity to meet most of the demand of the customers.
Visiting different shops at the city, the correspondent found most of shoppers at the local boutique houses to collect exclusively designed and coloured dresses for the festival.
A salesperson of local brand Chaiti, at the city’s Gawsia Market, said both local and Indian wears have good demand among the fashion-lovers. The local and Indian showrooms were crowded, he said. “We have large customers who purchase local items just before every Eid”
The prices of local dress vary from Tk 1,000 to Tk 2,500 each and the Indian saris from Tk 3,000 to Tk 10,000 each, he said.
But people are buying mostly wears of medium-range prices. Ismail Hossain, chief executive officer of Shawpna Mela, said, people are buying mostly local wears.
Shamin Ahmed, owner of the Rajkanya saree house, also a member of Dhanmondi Hawkers Market Dokan Malik Samity, said 80 per cent of the Indian cloths are being sold in his market owing to cheaper prices with luxury looks and colour.
He said the people of lower middle classes cannot afford their desired dresses from boutique houses within their tight budgets due to high prices.
The association member said, women of the middle-income group come to the market because of affordable prices of the products.
Besides, Pride Textile salesmen at the New Market area said, people are purchasing dresses with copied Indian designs and fashion considering lower prices. He said, as customers are getting copied dresses at lower prices, they do not want to buy imported ones with high prices.
The salesmen said the imported dresses are being sold at prices ranging between Tk 3,000 and Tk 10,000, but the same copied one is sold at Tk 1,000 to Tk 2,500 each.
Sheuli Akter, who went to the New Market to buy Eid dresses, said, she is always fond of local boutique, wears for her and her family members as those are comfortable and exclusive in fashion. She said, people should also buy local products to develop local entrepreneurship.
Besides, Ismita Jahan, a varsity student said, she doesn’t like Indian wears as it is being copied widely. “I prefer local brand wears and designs for this festival, considering their different looks,” she added.
There were huge gatherings the Bashundhara City on Wednesday. A salesman at Banglar Mela said, their sales increased this year. “The fashion-lovers are fond of local dresses as festival wears,” he opined. Prices vary at the Banglar Mela. Women dresses cost Tk 1,750 to Tk 4,000, saree Tk 550 to Tk 9,000, panjabis were selling at Tk 800 to Tk 3,000, fatua at Tk 450 to Tk 850 and kids’ wears at Tk 280 to Tk 2,500 each.
Eid-ul-Fitr may still be 13 days away, but shoppers are already very busy to choose their wears. They are descending on the shopping malls in the capital’s Gulshan, Banani, Uttara and Dhanmondi areas. Local fabrics are their best choice this year. The youths and the teenage have special passion for all those products bearing global standard, said traders.
However, due to diversified designs, comparatively for cheaper prices and better quality, the fashion lovers still prefer local wears taking their traditionally and culturally rich designs into consideration.
Traders said, although the Indian and Pakistani designed fabrics have flooded different markets of the city, most of these are copied from the local cloths which are manufactured on the outskirts and old parts of the city.
Jinat Ara, owner of Ramonia, a leading boutiqe and fashion house in the city said “local boutique houses have earned customers love in the last 20 years, and the number is increasing due to ability of local fashion houses to ensure quality and new designed products during every festive occasion.”
“Buyers in these parts of the city are somewhat different from other areas of Dhaka,” she said.
She also said that the local fashion houses would be able to build their capacity to meet most of the demand of the customers.
Visiting different shops at the city, the correspondent found most of shoppers at the local boutique houses to collect exclusively designed and coloured dresses for the festival.
A salesperson of local brand Chaiti, at the city’s Gawsia Market, said both local and Indian wears have good demand among the fashion-lovers. The local and Indian showrooms were crowded, he said. “We have large customers who purchase local items just before every Eid”
The prices of local dress vary from Tk 1,000 to Tk 2,500 each and the Indian saris from Tk 3,000 to Tk 10,000 each, he said.
But people are buying mostly wears of medium-range prices. Ismail Hossain, chief executive officer of Shawpna Mela, said, people are buying mostly local wears.
Shamin Ahmed, owner of the Rajkanya saree house, also a member of Dhanmondi Hawkers Market Dokan Malik Samity, said 80 per cent of the Indian cloths are being sold in his market owing to cheaper prices with luxury looks and colour.
He said the people of lower middle classes cannot afford their desired dresses from boutique houses within their tight budgets due to high prices.
The association member said, women of the middle-income group come to the market because of affordable prices of the products.
Besides, Pride Textile salesmen at the New Market area said, people are purchasing dresses with copied Indian designs and fashion considering lower prices. He said, as customers are getting copied dresses at lower prices, they do not want to buy imported ones with high prices.
The salesmen said the imported dresses are being sold at prices ranging between Tk 3,000 and Tk 10,000, but the same copied one is sold at Tk 1,000 to Tk 2,500 each.
Sheuli Akter, who went to the New Market to buy Eid dresses, said, she is always fond of local boutique, wears for her and her family members as those are comfortable and exclusive in fashion. She said, people should also buy local products to develop local entrepreneurship.
Besides, Ismita Jahan, a varsity student said, she doesn’t like Indian wears as it is being copied widely. “I prefer local brand wears and designs for this festival, considering their different looks,” she added.
There were huge gatherings the Bashundhara City on Wednesday. A salesman at Banglar Mela said, their sales increased this year. “The fashion-lovers are fond of local dresses as festival wears,” he opined. Prices vary at the Banglar Mela. Women dresses cost Tk 1,750 to Tk 4,000, saree Tk 550 to Tk 9,000, panjabis were selling at Tk 800 to Tk 3,000, fatua at Tk 450 to Tk 850 and kids’ wears at Tk 280 to Tk 2,500 each.