LAHORE: Girls selecting hand bags during shopping for upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr
Great rush of girls buyers have been witnessed on bangles
and henna stalls ahead of Eid on Wednesday as shopkeepers have beautifully decorated their shops with buntings and clourful lights to attract customers.After Iftari, the Peshawari girls’ accompanied with parents and guardians came out in large number for shopping and were seen busy in buying bangles and applying henna on hands in artistically decorated stalls setup at different areas of cantonment and city as eid celebrations have reached to its peak in Peshawar.The buying shiny bangles, jewellery, bright clothes and perfume with matching footwear were real fun for young girls during these days. The Eid flavour is moving to its peak as many shoppers are expected to came out for shopping on Chand Raat.On Wednesday, Jinnah Market in the cantt area are turned into sea of women and girls as new shops of henna and bangles decorated with clourful buntings were opened to attract shoppers.Sidara, 18, who came along with his father for shopping at Jinnah market told APP that shopping of
bangles and henna always doubles the joy on Eid. She said that she has bought bangles and cloths and will come on Chand Raat to decorate her hands with henna. “Like every year, I spend whole night with my friends on Chand Raat, visiting markets and buying bangles and other accessories. And the last essential thing for me is decorating hands with beautiful designs of henna on Chand Raat,” said Sidra.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.
Bangles and henna stalls were set up in every small and big markets in the city were full of a large variety of steel and glass bangles in different colours.Eid-ul-Fitr shopping activities are reaching to its peak in the KPK capital as bulk of the shopping centers and fashionable markets have been flooded with many foreign goods and items which were not available in the Peshawar markets in the past.The City markets and shopping stores are stuffed with internationally famous brands of cosmetics like Wella, lakme and jardana and men women wear like Bazoo, Lee and Wangler and are being popular here.Some fashionable shopping markets like Hayatabad shopping malls, Tipu Sultan Road markets, Peshawar Trade Centre, Shaheen and Meena bazzars and Qassa Khwani area are stuffed with variety of foreign goods for eid shoppers. However, people have complained about high prices of goods and termed it behind purchasing power of low income and salaried class.
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