Clothing shopping in India
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Navjyoti Tailors
Pushkar is a good place to get clothes made and a reliable option is Navjyoti Tailors.
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Fabindia
Founded as a means to get traditional fabric artisans’ wares to market, Fabindia has all the vibrant colours of the country in its cotton and silk fashions, materials and homewares, all in a modern-meets-traditional Indian shop. The Santa Cruz outpost is also good.
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Bhuttico
Shawls are sold all over Manali. A good place to start is at the cooperative Bhuttico which was established in 1944 by a group of village women. It charges fixed prices, so it’s a good place to gauge price and quality. Expect to pay upwards of Rs300 for lambswool, from Rs1000 for angora, from Rs3000 for pashmina and Rs6500 for the exquisitely embroidered shawls worn by village women. It has another store located in Manu Market.
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People Tree
This blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shop sells cool, etching-style T-shirts, many featuring Indian gods, as well as skirts, dresses, shirts (for men and women), shoulder bags, costume jewellery and books.
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M Ram & Sons
Men’s suits from Rs3500 (excluding material), ladies long skirts from Rs500 (excluding material). Tailoring is possible in 24 hours.
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14 VM Rd
This classy boutique complex showcases top Indian designers, including Abraham & Thakore, Manish Arora and Neeru Kumar.
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Puthu Mandapam
Madurai teems with cloth stalls and tailors' shops. A great place for getting cottons and printed fabrics is Puthu Mandapam, the pillared former entrance hall at the eastern side of Sri Meenakshi Temple. Here you'll find rows of tailors, all busily treadling away and capable of whipping up a good replica of whatever you're wearing in an hour or two. Quality, designs and prices vary greatly depending on the material and complexity of the design, but you can have a shirt made up for around Rs150.
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Anokhi
This classy boutique is well worth visiting, with high-quality textiles including block-printed fabrics and clothes. The pieces are produced just outside Jaipur at an unusually ethical factory built on the grounds of an organic farm. There’s also a neat little cafe on the premises.
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West Veli St
The fixed-price government shops are conveniently located together in West Veli St, including Poompuhar, Kerala Handicrafts and Khadi Bhavan (khadi is the homespun cloth made famous by Gandhi's decision, taken in Madurai, to wear it).
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Pratap Sons
This professional setup is perfect for tailor-made Western suits that somehow appear before your eyes, and pricey but glamorous salwar kameez (long dresslike tunic worn over baggy pants).
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New Jodhpur Tailors
This small tailor shop can make you a pair of jodhpurs (Rs1800) in preparation for a visit to the Blue City. Or you try a made-to-measure suit (Rs7000 to Rs15000) or shirt (Rs700 to Rs900).
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Khubsons Narisons
Khubsons Narisons sells famous Tantra T-shirts sporting funky original sketches, designs and witty slogans. A number of nearby market stalls sell clothing remarkably similar to Khubsons'.
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Northeast Network
This NGO seeds self-help projects in rural villages including several handloom-weaving cooperatives. Buying beautiful (and good-value) cottons here supports this fine work.
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Nalli Silk Sarees
In GK, this venerable sari emporium has four floors of silk varieties, specialising in those from South India. Prices range from Rs1000 to Rs30,000. CP has two floors.
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Sosa’s
A chic boutique carrying local labels such as Horn Ok Please, Hidden Harmony and Free Falling, Sosa’s is the best place in Panaji to source upscale Indian fashion.
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Khadi Gramodyog Bhawan
Best known for its excellent khadi (homespun cloth) clothing, but also worth a visit for its handmade paper, incense, spices, henna and natural soaps.
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Celebrate Shopping Mall
For something closer to home check out the glass-fronted Celebrate Shopping Mall which is full of western high street labels.
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Anokhi
Hand-block-printed clothes with which all the women we know are obsessed. Have iced tea afterwards at EcoCafé .
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Delhi Cloth House
Men’s wool suits from Rs5000 to Rs20,000 (including material); ankle-length skirts from Rs400 (excluding material).
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Ffolio
A good place for high Indian fashion. There’s also a branch at Leela Galleria (23 Airport Rd, Kodihalli).
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Courtyard
A collection of couture boutiques. Good if you’re interested in India’s fashion design scene.
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Stitches of Tibet
This organisation offers tailoring service, providing work for newly arrived women refugees.
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New Prominent Tailors
Men’s trousers (excluding material) cost Rs300, women’s skirts (with lining) cost Rs250.
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Mélange
High-fashion garments from 70 Indian designers in a chic exposed-brick space.
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Shanthi Tailors
If you're a Bharata Natyam dancer - or just want to look like one.
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