Archana Dresses

Archana Dresses is right on the Begum Bazar Main Road at shop number 14-4-377/2. If you know Hyderabad, you know how crazy Begum Bazar can get, especially during the festival seasons. Our shop is right in the thick of it. We have dresses lined up along the walls and more packed into boxes under the counters. The dust from the main road comes in no matter how much we clean. We have a big glass door, but we often leave it open to let the air move. Customers come in off the street looking for something specific, and we spend time digging through the piles to find it. It’s a lot of manual work. Our hands are often dusty from handling the fabrics all day. The shop isn't very wide, but it goes back quite a bit. We have a small area in the back where we keep our personal things and a water bottle. The noise from the honking cars and the shouting vendors is part of the daily life here. We don’t use any fancy technology to track things, just a pen and a bill book. Sometimes we get tired of the crowd, but the business keeps us going. We open early to avoid the worst of the traffic and stay until the sun goes down. It’s a busy life on a busy road. We just try to get through the day without too many problems.