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PESHAWAR, (APP): The shopping activities has reached to its climax here on Monday as people flocked markets and boutiques to select best gifts for near and dear ones and of course an appropriate one for one self to celebrate Eidul Fitre in most befitting manner.
Like others part of the country, the Peshawari’s men, women and young girls are flocking eid shopping markets including cloths arcades, sweets, cosmetics shops and artificial jewellery showrooms shops and are found busy in Eid shooping till late night.
According to APP survey here on Monday, Peshawari girls’ accompanied with parents and guardians came out in large number for shopping and purchased bangles and applied henna on hands in the artistically decorated stalls setup at different areas of cantonment and city as eid celebrations was reaching to its peak in Peshawar.
Thee buying shiny bangles, jewellery, bright clothes and perfume with matching footwear are real fun for young girls these days as females along with their parents is being seen in bangles and heena shops busy in Eid shopping continued till late night.
Mah Noor, 14, who came along with his father for shopping told APP that shopping of bangles and henna always doubles her joy on Eid.
“I have bought bangles and cloths and will come on Chand Raat again to decorate her hands with henna.”
“Like every year, I spend whole night with my relatives on Chand Raat, visiting markets and buying bangles and other accessories,” she said, adding the last essential thing for me is decorating hands with beautiful designs of henna on Chand Raat.
She said the henna tattoos are also available in markets and are easy to paste on hands and feet and can be removed easily.
The young girls admired henna tattoos associated with celebrations of Eid specifically.
The lawn prints, shirts kamiz, perfumes and cosmetics which all are female favoured items, are dominating the City’s fashion markets and shopping malls on the advent of the Eid-ul-Fitr.
The shopping boutiques and arcades are offering hundred types of lawn prints, short kamiz and cosmetics items which are attracting a large numbers of customers this year in major shopping arcades and markets like CT Tower, Shafi Markets, Qassia Khwani Bazaar and Arbab Road shopping boutiques.
Fashion designers like G. Craft in Jahingirabad, Nasir Silk Paradise in Shafi Market, Deans Trade Centre at Cantonment area and Gouchi in Hayatabad, all said that ladies having 18 to 24 ages enthusiastically are taking interest in shirt kamiz, lawn prints, jewellary and cosmetics in the eve of the Eid-ul- Fitr.
The Eid shopping arcades are also flooded with short kamiz like Paint Pajama, garments and thousands of others exclusive fashion items are attracting female’s customers. Peshawari chappal are also attracting a large number of customers and its sale increased upward.
The prices of the newly introduced items in the city are high.
“I am buying readymade Shalwar Kameez for eid as it would be used in the winter season also” said Misal Khan, a retired government officer while busy in shopping in Deans Trade Centre.
“The readymade suit would save him at least Rs 800 as stitching charges,” he remarked.
He complained that prices of the Shalwar Kameez are high this year comparing to the previous year.
During the survey it was observed that readymade suit was being sold at Rs 2500 to 3500 during this year against Rs 2000 to Rs 3000 last year respectively.
Khurshid Alam, an employee of semi Government department, who is busy in shirt kameez shopping in CT Tower on Jamrod Road said that short Kamiz is the demand of the fashionable era as it will reflect your personality that how much you are liberal in your thoughts and approach.
He remarked that the trend of shirt kamiz is also emerging in Pukhtun society and are being liked in youth very much, adding people are not price conscious, but fashion and quality conscious these days due to media revolution.
On the other hand, cosmetics like body sprays, nail polishes, lips-sticks, eyewear, skincare lotions and president-livendor, jet society, padycharme, charli gold and many others perfumes are attracting shoppers.
The sale of the perfume and cosmetics besides sweets items were up as these items are being solved in large scale in city’s leading outlets and shopping malls. Mainly youth and female customers are giving overwhelming response to the shopping of the cosmetics and perfume. It is expected that eid shopping activities would reach to its climax on Chand Raat in Peshawar.