RAWALPINDI: With the advent of biting wave large number of citizens is witnessed gathered to Lunda Bazaars to purchase second hand woollies and warm clothes.
A survey conducted by APP reveals that shoppers, majority of them women, were busy buying second-hand items. They were checking out Cardigans, sweaters, jackets, and socks, caps, mufflers and gloves for their minors.
With temperature dipping down with each passing day, the sale of warm clothes, especially those arriving from China is registering enormous surge in the Sunday bazaars of the town.
Chilly weather especially at night of last week forced the people to buy winter clothes and other necessary items to bear the sudden wave of coldness in the town.
All kinds of wears and accessories including gloves, woollen hats, mufflers, pullovers, sweater-shirts and jackets are seen hanging in front of shops and stalls of weekly bazaars, attracting the customers.
Heaps of second-hand quilts, blankets and rugs are up for sale in the weekly markets of Rawalpindi. Crowds both poor and middle class can be seen bargaining with retailers in markets and weekly bazaars, besides woollies, heaps of quilts, bed covers, blankets and rugs are up for sale as well.
"There is no other option except to buy winter clothes, when the cold and chilly breeze of Muree and Margala Hills is in full swing," Altaf, a resident of Shamsaabad said.
"I have bought a jacket of the same kind at Rs 500 last year, while I have paid Rs 700 to the shopkeeper after a lot of arguments," a customer said after buying a Chinese jacket.
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