What’s peeking?
Sockaboo, that customises pairs
with comical design elements
started catering to the wedding
industry. The recent feature on the website is the gift box where customers can
choose six pairs from their collection and gift them to their loved ones with a
customised message.
For details, visit their
instagram page: @sockabooofficial or website: www.sockaboo.com
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Fabric of life
design brand
Varnuyathe. Only the final stitching of our garments is done by
machine.” What set the brand apart is the fabric it uses, sourced from aloe
vera, pineapple, bamboo and other plants. The Varnuyathe Studio in Anna Nagar
lets you choose your fabric and get your clothes custom-made — “We don’t keep
pre-made stock, except for some saris,”
The focus of her brand is on
kidswear and women. While the former begins at Rs. 800 and goes on to Rs. 4,000
the latter starts at Rs. 1,200. For details, call 9884317823.
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From shelf to compost pit
Everwards have a range of
body butters, bath salts, scrubs and shampoo in powder form. And then there are
spoons, forks, bowls and teacups made from coconut shells. “Our
notebooks are made from pushed consumer cotton waste.” These are the unusable,
oft-discarded strands of cotton left behind by clothes manufacturers.
For details and to buy, visit
www.everwards.co.in
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The great jhumka adventure
Scent of a woman
Mohammad Yasheen’s attar shop,
replete with glass bottles of different shapes and sizes. There are also bowls
of surma that you can buy for ₹50. My
personal favourite is the tiny bottle of woody oudh that smells like
a forest, and costs just ₹30.
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Glass houses
New Mahalakshmi Bangles catches
our eye and we enter the shop to a burst of kaleidoscopic colour.
Most of the bangles, made of
brass, plastic, and glass, are sourced from Jaipur and Mumbai.
The cheapest bangles there are
made of glass, cost ₹25, and are so camp, you can only
wear them ironically. For ₹5 more, you
can buy basic steel bangles.
Roadside dreams
B Nagalakshmi’s roadside stall.
The 41-year-old from Suryapet in Telangana, started this business right outside
the house her family has been renting for the past four years. She buys the
‘fashion jewellery’ wholesale and keeps a meagre profit margin; the jhumkas we
like cost ₹60.
panipuris at Kakada
Ramprasad. What’s ₹30 more?
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A meaty battle
Will home-grown nombu kanji be athaleem,
a Persian import?
Hyderabadihaleem!
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Follow the sizzle
food cart in West Mambalam
sells a unique snack calledsundal vadai.
West Mambalam, nearby Ayodhya
Mandapam is hard to miss. “ Bonda, molaga bajji, onion bajji, potato bajji to vegetable sundal ,
we sell everything,” sundal vadai,
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