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