Warm clothes sale picks up in Pabna
Monday, 6 December 2010
Our Correspondent
PABNA, Dec 5: The sale of warm clothes has picked up at the makeshift shops and hawkers' markets in Pabna as winter sets in with a chilling atmosphere.
Makeshift shop owners Sunday said the sale of winter clothes such as sweaters, jackets, cardigans, woollen caps and mufflers has increased over last few days.
Hawkers were found selling warm clothes, including new and used, of various designs on city streets.
Mojnu Sheikh, a shop owner of the town's Hawker Market said, the sale of used clothes in recent days is higher than new ones.
He said most of the consumers of the used warm clothes were from the working class people with fixed and low income. Day-labourers, rickshaw pullers and low-paid workers generally chose these cloths, he added.
A hawker, Abul Kalam Azad, while displaying a large number of used warm clothes like jeans, jackets, woollen blazers, sweaters and cardigans at his shop in the town's Hawker Market said middle class people were also buying used clothes.
'A good number of solvent buyers and young men come to my shop and buy used clothes of stylist designs that appears to be better than new ones,' he added.
Day-labourer Ali Ahmed who bought two woollen sweaters for his children from a shop at the town's Sonali Bank Point Sunday afternoon said the imported used clothes looked fresh and comfortable to him and so he chose from those. He said the worm clothes' price was much higher in this year than the previous year.
'We had to buy the clothes at almost double the price from the wholesalers this year than the previous year,' said a trader.
PABNA, Dec 5: The sale of warm clothes has picked up at the makeshift shops and hawkers' markets in Pabna as winter sets in with a chilling atmosphere.
Makeshift shop owners Sunday said the sale of winter clothes such as sweaters, jackets, cardigans, woollen caps and mufflers has increased over last few days.
Hawkers were found selling warm clothes, including new and used, of various designs on city streets.
Mojnu Sheikh, a shop owner of the town's Hawker Market said, the sale of used clothes in recent days is higher than new ones.
He said most of the consumers of the used warm clothes were from the working class people with fixed and low income. Day-labourers, rickshaw pullers and low-paid workers generally chose these cloths, he added.
A hawker, Abul Kalam Azad, while displaying a large number of used warm clothes like jeans, jackets, woollen blazers, sweaters and cardigans at his shop in the town's Hawker Market said middle class people were also buying used clothes.
'A good number of solvent buyers and young men come to my shop and buy used clothes of stylist designs that appears to be better than new ones,' he added.
Day-labourer Ali Ahmed who bought two woollen sweaters for his children from a shop at the town's Sonali Bank Point Sunday afternoon said the imported used clothes looked fresh and comfortable to him and so he chose from those. He said the worm clothes' price was much higher in this year than the previous year.
'We had to buy the clothes at almost double the price from the wholesalers this year than the previous year,' said a trader.