Uniqueness of Fashion Street of Mumbai

Mumbai of India has various Markets for buying a variety of goods at throw-away prices and Fashion Street is one amongst them.

Uniqueness of Fashion Street

The Uniqueness of this Street is that all the shops numbering approximately 150 are carved out in footpath. So you can’t call them shops as they are ‘Footpath Cubicle Shops’.

The Name ‘Fashion Street’ is a Misnomer

Shops in this area stock-pile and sell rejected Export Quality Garments meant for Western countries as per their designs and patterns Mumbaikars believe that fashion is set in Western countries and therefore even their left-over and Rejected Ones are Futuristic Fashion Statements. And as shops in this street though sell those discarded fashion pieces they firmly believe that Fashion is set in Fashion Street and hence they call it Fashion Street. Nevertheless the fact remains that the Name Fashion Street is a Misnomer to it.

Market for Garments

Fashion Street is mainly a Market For Garments. You could therefore pick up jeans, shirts, skirts, track-pants, tops, skimpy night wears, etc. However you shouldn’t be surprised if you get defective shirts, clothes, etc, with missing buttons, crooked collars, etc.

Also Market For Other Items

Though shops mainly deal in garments you could also find a few shops selling shoes, sandals, kolhapuri sandals, costumes, artificial jewellery, etc, to cater to the crazy fashion seekers in those departments also as well.

Location

It is conveniently located in Mumbai very near to Churchgate Railway Station in Western Railway and opposite to Azad Ground near C.S.T. Railway Station in Central Railway. You can also reach here by bus, taxi, etc.

Bargain Market

It is principally a Bargain Market as shop-keepers quote you fancy prices. So if you won’t go for bargaining you would be taken for a ride by them forcing you to empty your pockets for defective goods. Though the goods that you can put your hands on may have minor defects the advantage is that you can procure them at a fraction of the prices that they are sold out in the shops of U.S.A., U.K., etc. Hence it has become crazy habits even with American, European Tourists, Indian Sophisticated and Educated Women, Indian Students, etc, to patronize shops over here.


Also there is a firm belief amongst teenagers, college students, etc, of India, that if they go for anything in Fashion Street they get in return the trendy fashion piece of U.S.A., Europe, etc, that would make them far ahead of other Indians in the realm of fashion.