My sewing machine went on the fritz a couple of months back and we just got around to getting it repaired now. Fahim called Singer, which was where we bought the machine, and they gave us the number for a repair person who would repair it at the house. We had an appointment set...
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Shops tend to be on the very small side (compared to stores in the US and Canada, for example) and rather stuffed with items for sale. Take this shop, for example. If you look carefully, you’ll notice that there’s about a foot-wide passageway between stacks of package. Some of those packages hold lace and...
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I think those are what they’re called. The pants – with big puffy bits where the body is, and skinny skinny bits where the legs are and long bits that get wrinkled and collected around the ankles. It’s the way these pants are meant to be worn, but seriously, they don’t work for Fahim....
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Lucky guy. He knows what he wants, and he gets it done in no time at all. Why? Is it solely because he’s male? Well, yes, and no. Being male and not caring about choice, selection, and whether something will match other items helps, but also being a standard size helps. Today was Fahim’s...
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Next stop… Fahim’s shopping is done. And he makes sure to remind me of that. For the next several more hours. :p We head to Odels. I need shoes and jewellery, and we’re hoping that we’ll be able to find both here. Unfortunately, I have size 10 feet. Wide enough that I can’t fake...
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So it’s Id-Ul-Alha, or Hadji Festival Day. We had outside food – Fahim’s mom had arranged it last week or so, I believe, and it was mutton biryani and curries. The chicken biryani we get from The Banana Leaf, a restaurant owned by one of Fahim’s uncles, is way better, but that’s only because...
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As part of the Festival tradition, we gave the new clothes we bought to everyone, and Fahim’s mom brought me into her bedroom where she had four shalwaar sets laid out on her bed – all not sewn, just the plain material – and she asked me to pick out which one I’d like....
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A question came up recently on a forum I frequent after I complained about all the things we can’t get here. What can we get here that y’all can’t get, or can’t get to the extent we can here? Limes are commonplace here, and lemons are rare at best. I’m trying to remember if...
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We went out and about today, and one of our stops was at Crescat, one of the local upscale malls. We stopped in Hameedia on a lark. Hameedia is a local store that sells upscale menswear including suits and kurtas. And guess what we found? Yep, a kurta! In Fahim’s size! Fahim hasn’t modelled...
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And it scares me. Men’s briefs are borrowing an old trick from the Wonderbra: companies are engineering their latest styles to provide more of a lift. Why? Guys who wear tighter pants are demanding undies with snugger cuts. Plus, these supportive pouches build confidence or at least that’s how the lines are marketed. <snip> Slip...
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