Eid shoppings and price demands
Friday, 18 September 2009
SOMETIMES I feel that Eid is an event for younger people. From ten-year olds to those in their early twenties, people who can afford it and even those who cannot, most seem to be very conscious about the latest in trend and fashion. This may be because they see a lot of television shows and programmes and read magazines that feature images of models in the latest fashionable attire. The popular fashion houses and retailers of the city also advertise a lot; so attraction for their merchandise is natural. Many also agree to pay the price for what they perceive is the best they have chosen. There are many styles and in different colours, too. Surely it must be difficult to choose. So shoppers come away with two or three of the same item but of a different style.
Not all the products, however, are out-of-reach. Prices can be reasonable, too, like the punjabi, my sister bought for me from Banglar Mela. It was white with white embroidery, an excellent cut and fitted me to perfection and cost just Tk 750. Even I was amazed because I heard a reasonably good punjabi could cost anything between Tk 1200-2500. But some should get a jail term for charging what they dare to charge, like the one I read about in which a person asked the price of a T-shirt for his twelve-year old boy and was told it would cost Tk 2500! He could not help asking what was in the T-shirt that carried such a price tag. The shopkeeper just grinned and said it was imported. From where, Fort Knox?!
The vendors selling their wares on the footpath, however, are extremely popular because people get more or less similar stuff for a fraction of what is sold in air-conditioned shops.
Jafar Ali Khan
Mohammadpur
Dhaka
Not all the products, however, are out-of-reach. Prices can be reasonable, too, like the punjabi, my sister bought for me from Banglar Mela. It was white with white embroidery, an excellent cut and fitted me to perfection and cost just Tk 750. Even I was amazed because I heard a reasonably good punjabi could cost anything between Tk 1200-2500. But some should get a jail term for charging what they dare to charge, like the one I read about in which a person asked the price of a T-shirt for his twelve-year old boy and was told it would cost Tk 2500! He could not help asking what was in the T-shirt that carried such a price tag. The shopkeeper just grinned and said it was imported. From where, Fort Knox?!
The vendors selling their wares on the footpath, however, are extremely popular because people get more or less similar stuff for a fraction of what is sold in air-conditioned shops.
Jafar Ali Khan
Mohammadpur
Dhaka