Mumbai
* Export surplus stores such as Clothes Rack (Breach Candy, Cuffe Parade, Chembur, Khar, Matunga and Ville Parle) Cotton On (Bandra Reclamation), Apparel Store (Kemp’s Corner)
* Colaba Causeway—besides the roadside stalls, try stores such as Kalapi and Pax
* Fashion Street, Metro
* Lokhandwala market, Andheri
* Hill Road, Waterfield Road and Linking Road in Bandra for street shopping as well as small boutiques selling stylish clothes
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New Delhi
* Cottons, N-Block market, Greater Kailash 1, for jhola bags, lycra churidars, short and long kurtas, dupattas and scarves
* Dilli Haat for bags and ethnic footwear
* Skin Style at Cafe Style, Sector 18, Noida, for custom-tailored plaid trousers, shorts, shirts and stylized Converse shoes with buttons and sequins
* Muah, Khan Market, for dresses and jumpsuits
* Sarojini Nagar Market for skirts, ganjis, dresses and shirts
* Street stalls at M-block Greater Kailash I market for slip-ons and ballet shoes
* Khan Market, central lane for sequined flip-flops, jewellery
* Janpath street market for beads, oxidized jewellery, skirts, ethnic footwear
* Playclan, Select Citywalk, Saket for quirky T-shirts
* Taniya O’ Connor at 9811353977 for dresses
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Kolkata
* Forum Mall, Elgin Road
* Vardaan Market, Camac Street
* New Market
* South City, Prince Anwar Shah Road, Tollygunj
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Bangalore
* Down Town The Fashion Boutique, Feet Road, Indira Nagar
* Handloom sales and exhibitions at the Chitrakala Parishad for ethnic clothes
ALSO TRY: High street brands such as Chemistry, Mango, Promod, FCUK and Forever New for clothes, Charles & Keith, Aldo, Puma, Nike, Reebok and Adidas for shoes and bags, and Levi’s, Lee and Lee Cooper for jeans.
Compiled by Parizaad Khan