Friday, April 2, 2010

Dilli darwaza: women dominance




One of the most common vending amongst women is vending old clothes. There is a huge market for old clothes dominated by women. They get these old clothes by bartering for utensils, which they sell, going door to door. After walking for hours in sun with a massive load of utensils on head, women collect old clothes, wash and repair them and then sell them, again by sitting for hours on the road. The money in reinvested in the business.
Dilli darwaza is an old and huge market of old clothes. There one can see around 300 women sitting on road with heaps of clothes of all kind, some organized some not. Along the road sit many tailors doing the repair jobs.

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