Sales of traditional dresses and handicrafts got momentum in the Sylhet city on Tuesday, on the eve of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bangla New Year.

Sellers of clothes and showpieces, from footpath vendors to posh shopping mall shopkeepers in the city, have gathered a huge collection of colourful and fashionable dresses and handicrafts this year, sources in the city markets said.
Safia Nazneen, a schoolteacher of Rikabibazar in the city, told New Age on Tuesday that she had never seen such a big collection of eye-catching attires, especially for the babies and teenagers, on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh.
‘Not only dresses, a huge collection of handicrafts including household utilities like palm-leaf hand-fans, caps, pottery products and various showpieces, have also been gathered by the traders,’ said Mili Ferdaus, who came to the city’s Zindabazar to do shopping to celebrate the first day of the Bangla calendar.
The teenagers were seen thronging different city markets at Zindabazar, Jallarpar, Rikabibazar, Barutkhana, Hawapara, Mirzajangal, Lamabazaar, Ambarkhana, Subidbazar, Madina Market, Kadamtali, Bharthakhala, Station Road, Mirabazar, Shibganj and Tilagar to buy dresses and other stylish products on Tuesday, just before the beginning of the Bangla New Year.
Shahin, a roadside shopkeeper at the city’s Court Point, said they were offering colourful panjabies, fatuwas of various designs and caps written with ‘Pahela Baishakh’ to the buyers of different ages at between Tk 80 and Tk 200.
‘Sales at my shop are going on well from Tuesday morning and it will increase further in the evening,’ he added.
Saiful Islam, a businessman of the Sylhet City Centre, said they were offering panjabis and fatuwas of various qualities for teenagers at between Tk 325 and Tk 1250 and for the children between Tk 275 and Tk 750.
‘Turnover on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh is good enough this year compared with the previous years,’ Saiful said.
Sales of small-sized national flags and badges with portraits of the country’s map or inscribed with ‘Pahela Baishakh’, clothes and handicrafts were also noticeable in the city.
A hawker, Faruk Miah, 24, who was selling colourful badges and national flags at Bandarbazar, said he sold about 150 badges and flags by Tuesday noon.
Being contacted, columnist and former treasurer at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Professor Abdul Aziz said people were getting conscious about their traditional cultures and for that reason they were buying traditional dresses.

Source: http://www.newagebd.com

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