Looking around for some great sarees has always been a wonderful experience for me at Angadi Silks. I’ve seen the shop scale up in the last 7 years or so. Though it scaled up considerably to keep pace with the just concluded economic boom, I am told by the elders in my family that the store’s elderly staff members & the owners always remind one of the good old RASI silks of good old Madras when it started in a quite corner of Mylapore .
No, I am not the passionate silk saree buyer. I always go for their never ending collection of polycottons & pure cottons with price tags that suit my pocket.and ofcourse for their very imaginative collection of ready to stitch salwar kameezes in an affordable price range.I am always the hurried shopper and would enter the store invariably around it’s closing time, but I have never returned dissappointed ever.and the proprietor’s gracious "better half" would make sure I get what I am looking for.quite often I envy her collection of old kancheevaram sarees & the manner in which she majestically drapes the pallu around her.
I like the store’s policy of not encouraging exchange of items once sold. I do not like purchasing sarees which have been already taken out of the store and brought back after being folded & unfolded by several hands. I like my sarees to be fresh, crisp with the smell of the loom intact.I always make sure I pick up a piece from their latest stock .I always insist that for I should be the first to touch, feel & smell my new saree.
Of late, the store has some interesting collection of readymade cotton kalamkari printed shirts & khadi sarees of a superior quality which I have not come across any where so far. .I picked up 2 khadi cotton sarees recently, very very elegant yet simple.they are value for money spent well.for in my own way I could help those hands that had reeled the thread, hand spun the yarn and handwoven the saree.all for a living.!
Keep the great work, Angadi Silks.