SHOPPING!

With a sign like this, how could you go wrong?

              As much as it pains me to say it, for the first time in my life, I have found myself enjoying shopping. Shopping in Nepal, like shopping at Goodwill, every crazy pattern and style can be found, and hidden in between the crest green sleeveless and the acid washed booty shorts gems can be found. But unlike Goodwill where these ‘gems’ are only is size 24 or XXL, EVERYTHING FITS YOU! That is because it is cheaper here to buy fabric and get it personally tailored then to buy something that is factory made. The best part about it is not only do you get to choose the style you want and get it custom fitted, but it all come for less than the cost of a burger and fries (or at least at an establishment that doesn’t use pink slime).


           The process is actually incredibly enjoyable. You stroll fabric shop to fabric shop, pulling out sheets of cloth from the floor to ceiling shelves which make up the walls of the shop. You then sit with the shop keeper, normally with a cup of tea, and you proceed to haggle until you both are satisfied then you take it to a tailor shop nearby and within a day or two you got your new threads.

               The sign from the tailor shop above sold it to me, but what was the icing on the cake was when I walked in, and noticed, hanging from above, a pair of pleated camo pants waiting to be picked up.

Since then I have gotten several shirts and pants made and even this traditional number:

And who doesn’t want to see a photo of me in that gear on a ping?