Inside the wondrous world of shopping for clothes

Thought I should put up a different type of post today, it's an experience which I always get to relive every time I accompany my mother on her shopping trips.
Whenever we enter the stores, the first thing which amazes me is the number of colors and the designs, like you have so many shades of blue, red, green, yellow and the list continue then the designs and the type of cloth. I need time just to digest the amount of colors and the variety they have there. All that glitters is not gold but lol they look so shiny and so nice, I could sit there and go through all the designs and at the end of the day still I wouldn't know which one to choose.
The salesman shows the unstitched clothes, so if it's a three piece there's the dupatta (worn over the shoulders or on the head), the kameez (shirt) and shalwar (trousers). Usually the fancier the suit is the more you can expect to find embroidery on there, different types of lace, designs printed on the kameez and the dupatta and usually the shalwar is plain. If it's a two piece suit either the shalwar is not there or the dupatta is not there or you can just get the kameez too.
These days they give you a picture of how the suit is supposed to look once you get it stitched and it's like if you can transform these three and some laces into that, it's just magic.
The transformation is absolutely magical, from just different pieces and parts to a whole suit but what is truly magical is when they finally make their mind up what to buy.
And to the sales dudes in those shops, you guys have some patience and stamina, rolling and unrolling all that cloth and then packing and repacking and placing all those colors in sight so every guy who is accompanying is lost in the colors and all that, confused and dazed. Thanks to you guys now I know a lot more about female clothing brands. Khaddi, Almirah, Elegance, Aroshi, Gul Ahmed, Maria B, Alkaram, Bareeze, Nishat and so on and so forth.

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