Oh no, they haven’t. At least when it comes to clothes. Local clothes, that is. We had planned on buying some local clothes for the man, namely, shirt and pants. We gave Tekka Market in little india a try. The upper stories are chockful of clothes and some are even intended for the fashionable male. As for design, ‘gaudy’ doesn’t do those longshirts justice. Each sported a substantial amount of bling.
Tried to convince the man to get one, just for the giggles, but when he showed me a shirt marked XL (and there were precious few of those) I saw we had a problem. That ‘XL’ was tiny. It looked like a shirt for a slim 12year-old boy. We subsequently found that an XL as we know it would be an 6XL here – they go up to 10XL.
The same applies, of course, for the female clothes. They had huge amounts of princess-like dresses in the various styles.
There were several tailors, all offering to make on-the-spot-alterations so these clothes would fit our larger frames. I could not imagine what they planned to do to those slim pretty habits – maybe sew 2 together? So what we were left with is revelling in those colours. Tekka Market 1st floor is like a clash of rainbows – rainbows with bling.
