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Old Aug 18th, 2008, 10:22 PM   #14 (permalink)
pinks
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maybe we ought to give your cousins the benifit of doubt... yaani she doesn't have the best taste, couldn't decipher between jamawar silk and whatever it is she sent you, and she's not so good in the bargaining department.

I'm basing my comparison with karachi which is where i was 2 odd weeks back...

You got ripped off big time... there is no "naazuk-ness" in the kaam, and the "safa'e" of the kaam is ok. I got my karhai done from a prettey good place, and one of the more expensive kaam came to Rs2200, it had work with cora, nags, beadwork, resham, etc.... it looks gorgeous, and there is so much neatness in the work that it only adds to the look.

Jamawar silk can be prettey expensive, but that material you got doesn't look like it... and the sila'e, at most should be around Rs250 seeing the darzi just has to stitch around the kaam and there isn't any complications in that.

But maybe your cousin though it all looks nice, so maybe we should appreciate her hard work.

PS: you should definately go shopping yourself in Pakistan... it'll end up being cheaper then what you pay in any western country. Bargain hard sister! Iv'e bought stuff for less then 50% of the initial quoting price







Last edited by pinks; Aug 18th, 2008 at 11:18 PM..
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