Sri Ambekar Cloth Show Room

If you know the Tower Circle area, you know how busy it gets, especially during the festival seasons. Our cloth showroom is right in the thick of it. We spend most of our time folding and unfolding long reams of fabric. Customers come in looking for something specific for a wedding or just some simple cotton for daily wear, and we end up showing them twenty different shades before they pick one. The shelves are always overflowing with different textures and colors. It gets quite dusty with all the loose threads and lint flying around, so we are constantly dusting the glass counters. We don't have any fancy displays or mannequins that look like movie stars. It’s just stacks of cloth and a few mirrors so people can see how the fabric looks against their skin. The fans are always running high because the shop gets warm with all the people coming in and out. Sometimes the tea boy from next door brings us a glass while we are measuring out meters of silk or polyester. We’ve seen the neighborhood change over the years, but the way people shop for clothes stays mostly the same. They want to touch the material and check the borders. We just stay busy keeping the stock organized, which is a never-ending job because as soon as we tidy up, another group of shoppers comes in and moves everything again.