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India is a place where there is a lot of affordable luxury--I bought some clothes, and with silk rugs I did window-shopping. :)
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had gone into certain rug stores, at times right off of Cunningham Road, where our hotel Le Meridien was located. In a store like this, they’d serve me hot tea as they try to shmooze me to buy. The tea was good, but I’m no pushover. ;) |
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Another rug display--stylized here with luxurious pillows as well. Even Le Meridien had a small store within it, where the handwoven rug details were amazingly ornate and beautiful. |
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| In one store they had this smaller replica of a rug--it’s made up of jeweled embroidery, every bit as ornate and detailed as an original. | |
The commercial district: this guy was in one of the many little shops busily customizing a garment--I knew of one Accenture employee who’d spent a lot of her time planning for fittings, and would go many times to places where she was due to pick them up. |
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is the home of Himalaya--in my opinion, one of the more awesome natural
herbal healthcare places around. It’s a little store, but it’s packed with goodies of everything from A to Z, including stuff for the family pet. http://www.himalayahealthcare.com/. |
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The owner’s name is Rani (third from left), and she’d be busy travelling from the warehouse to the store with boxes of vitamins and other things that I’d ordered--so much so that this was the reason that I needed to buy another suitcase. :) She also had a doctor onsite--Kavitha (far right) who was there to explain the benefits! |
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This is the Cauvery, a very well-known government-run store on MG Road. (The "MG" is short for Mahatma Gandhi.) the road looks as wide as it seemed. If you are an american in Bangalore, visit this store--you won't go wrong. You can find anything there for yourself and for your loved ones back home. |
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The Cauvery was great for inexpensive costume jewelry--my obsession. I love indian earrings for their ornateness. They also had sandlewood necklaces--sandlewood being very prized over there, and smelling great--for a good, fixed price. |
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I bought one salwar kameez--albeit off the rack, I’ll admit! The material is a bit scratchy--I’d have to get used to it. |
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The sash was fun...here I’m trying to fling the thing over my shoulder in the most natural way possible. | |
Now
this is my favorite shirt--so soft and playful--it’s nice and long,
great with jeans--speaking of which, I have a pair not pictured here but
they’ve got a lot of nice embroidery down the sides of each leg.:) |
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