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Fashion
Fashion beckons the conscious. This year don't be surprised to find Puja pandals and community halls to be turned into fashion hubs. The four day festivity will be graced with rustling silks, embroidered dhoti-panjabi, ever graceful kantha saaris, skinny leggings, capris, shrugs and ghagroos. The shops this season are teeming with the latest cuts, falls and fabrics. |
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Western dresses tops the fashion list with low waist boot cut jeans and spaghetti tops doing the rounds. Some shops have flora embroidery on the sides and patterned jeans rolled up to capri-length.
Skirts in variety of shades in rust, beige, creme and black ranging from silk,
cotton, chiffon and crushed silk are printed, sequined and beaded. Ghagroos, flowing skirts with embroiderd or beaded waist band in crushed cotton will rule fashion this Puja.Kurtis are still in vogue. With embroidered necklines and beaded sleeves. Kurtis with zaris and resham work are doing well in most of the shops.
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Salwar Kurtas this year will have western cuts with Indian embellishments in block prints and paisleys. Seqins,mirror works and beads are the embellishments much in fashion.There are sober stuff too in Khadi cotton, in rich as well as sober colours.Saaris are all time favourite. In bright colours, in crepe and georgette heavily sequined, they are available in saari emporiums. Kantha work on silks and tashaars are always on great demand while Balucharis,Kora silks and Dhakai Jamdanis need no intoduction among Bengali fashion.
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Tops:Rs200-Rs.700; Kurtis: Rs.250-Rs.1000; Long Frocks:Rs.600-Rs.1050
Leggings:Rs.220-Rs.550; Shrugs:Rs.300 onwards;Jeans:Rs.450 onwards;
Skirts:R.250 onwards; Salwar Kurtas(chiffon/georgette:Rs.650 onwards;Salwar Kurtas(cotton):Rs. 250 onwards; Georgette/Crepe saaries with embroidery: Rs.600 onwards; Kantha Stitch saaris: Rs.2000 onwards; Ikkat: Rs.1800 onwards;Bomkai silk: Rs.2500 onwards; Pochanpalli:Rs.2000 onwards; Lehengas: Rs.1050 onwards. |
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Fashion for men has undergone great change.From the paler shades and pin stripes it has advanced towards bright lemon yellow, violet, pink and green and the strips have changed to blocks prints and floral patterns. Kurta pyjamas, sherwanis, jodhpuris and designer shirts are very much in vogue for men this Puja.The matka Kurtas are good ethnic wear and the short kurtas with embroidered necklines and hemlines are finding great buyers. Younger buyers are looking for floral or rubber motif T-shirts. Boot jeans are more in demand while trousers in black, grey and beige are also finding good buyers.
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| Shirts: Rs.250 onwards; Kurtas:Rs.500 onwards; Trousers:Rs.700 onwards |
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'Kids wear' has a bevy of choice that it becomes almost difficult to make the right move. Bright coloured and cherubic, they rule the racks in almost all the well known shops of Kolkata. Trousers are straight fits with 6 pockets accompanied with jacket or zipper shirts for boys. Younger ones will enjoy the spiderman motifed shirts. Girls have a gamut of dresses. Mini skirts, umbrella skirts with lacy tops, capris, cargos, leggings are doing the rounds. Traditional attaire dhoti-kurta are selling like hot-cakes while ghagras with stringed and embellished tops are ruling the fashion for girls |
| Frocks:Rs.200 onwards; Salwar Kurtas:Rs.350 onwards; Zipper Shirts:Rs400 onwards; Gowns:Rs.1000 onwards |
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Puja Schedule 