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What Every Well-Dressed Indian Businessman Is Wearing This Summer - A $210,000 Gold Shirt
18 months ago - before The Reserve Bank Of India went full gold-tard (raising duties and capital controls), 32-year-old Datta Phuge unleashed his $25,000 gold shirt on the world's women, proclaiming "I know I am not the best looking man in the world but surely no woman could fail to be dazzled by this shirt?" However, as RBI has lifted some gold restrictions (realizing the error of their ways after smuggling exploded), we introduce 45 year-old politician and textile magnate Pankaj Parakh... and his $210,000 gold shirt weighing 3.3 kilograms which took 20 people 3,200 hours to create. Now, if that doesn't get him laid (or shot) we don't know what will...
Pankaj Parakh, a local politician and the owner of a multi-million pound textile business near Mumbai, has had the shirt created out of pure love for the precious metal.
The shirt in question weighs four kilos and is estimated to have cost £127,000. It has seven gold buttons has been created to move flexibly, just like any other shirt. The gold itself is 18-22 carat purity, and there have been no other metals used. It is lined with a thin cloth for added comfort, though the body of the garment is smooth.
A team of 20 people are thought to have spent 3,200 hours crafting the shirt.
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He will flaunt the shirt on Friday at a special function to celebrate his birthday.
"Gold always fascinated me since I was five years old and studying in school. Over the years, I have become passionate about this royal metal." Mr Parakh said.
"Yet, for my marriage 23 years ago, many guests considered me an embarrassment as I sported more gold than the bride," he recalled.
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"My family is hardly impressed or interested in my love for gold. They just ignore and accept it as a part of domestic life. But the rest of my extended family thinks I am weird," he said.
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Man, that's just salt on the wound.
Pass the lemon juice
Here
Platform shoes to stretch 5'4" - $185
Jenny Craig for a year to lose 35 lbs - $3500
Gold Shirt to wow the Babes - $210,000
Believing Gold is money and everything else is credit - Priceless.
It's a nice shirt, reminds me of the flick "man with the golden gun".
Goldfinger
At the drive in, baby.
Gold and silver plaid for me, so I can wear it with my bib overalls. Can I get it in long sleeves? Oh, and a pocket for my glasses and chew.
Remus... order a tungsten pocket liner while you're at it, too
That goes in the big bib pocket up front, in the middle - keep the balance ya know. Not that I'll notice once I've put the plate in the carrier sewn into the bib. Got them fancy curved plates with the Goop-X sprayed on it. Ever seen the mayhem bullets cause around the front of a steel target when it hits? Boy howdy. Best git some with Goop-X or some such.
Yeah, but he wears tungsten underwear.
I know I'm a bad boy, please just don't get me! :)
"I know I am not the best looking man in the world but surely no woman could fail to be dazzled by this shirt?"
No worries my friend, "clothes make the man".
How very conductive! Electrifying in fact. Hope nobody hits him with a tazer.
He puts Mr. T to shame, and that's saying something.
Too bad those buttons are brass
I hope it's bullet proof too.
Upvoted for the avatar
Flash back to medieval times and chain mail, Louis Vuitton style.
The first time I came here, I thought I would load up, since India has a 'golden' reputation for ...gold.
Then I found out they do not sell by the ounce, only grams (duh). Then I discovered the Tax. Then I discovered the hapless Indians had been suckered into a VAT as well.
Not only that, but when you buy jewelry, you also get burned. If you supply the gold, from the family stash, they make the jewelry and keep the scraps.
Despite all of this, the people love their gold. When the government tried to raise taxes, it created a black market of smuggling. They just do not trust paper money.
I wonder though if their central bank is controlled by the International Termites with Hindu front men....
That's got to be about as comfortable as a shirt made of fiberglass.
And very generic-looking. Doesn't do the material justice.
I concur. For that kind of cabbage, I'd bling the fucker up. Flared collars, designs - fuck - do a fresco on the back......
Indian douchebag.....
Wanker
If he ever loses his wallet, he can always get hold of some fast cash by tearing off his collar and selling it to a jeweler.
Now THAT'S liquidity.
It is probably bulletproof as well. I know a few preppers who would kill for that shirt.
A suit made of dried beef jerky. Check.
A suit made of guns. Check.
A suit made of gold. Hmm...
i would totally do him, and i'm not even gay. do they sell condom's made of gold?
that should be a thing. seirously. i can see them actually selling. like you know i microgram of gold nano particles in them and sell them at a 500% margin.
most people don't realize how expensive gold leaf is relative to the gold content---processing materials into paints dyes and micro-catalysts with high overall surface area can be a very energy intensive and expensive process.....
Glad to see at least one man take the Fukushima threat seriously.
It still couldn't get that A-sexual actor Elliot Rodgers laid.
You reckon this dude is one of those nice guys that will give you 'the shirt off his back'?
Guess not, you don't glom a solid gold shirt by being an easy touch. The local gangsters might view this ostentatious display as an insult to their competence and gravitas. This guy is a reckless, strutting peacock, not that there's anything wrong with that.
You might call this real comedy gold!
Mr. T is probably gonna have to go with the size extra large...
"Give the shirt off his back" was the first thing I thought of too....scrolled to find someone thinking the same thing....
This idiot stands on the street wearing it; he must have good security.
Ostentatious motherfucker....
But the rest of my extended family thinks I'm weird... Pankaj, welcome to fight club.
Nice threads.
That is so fucking cool. Why make a shirt out of gold? Because I can, bitch!
i heard he had an unfortunate smelting accident.
disgusting
masterpiece bitchez
Pankaj Parakh - "People think I'm wierd."
No I don't Mr. Parakh, I think your vain like Dennis Kovloski at Tyco and his $125,000 gold shower head and toilet seat. Of course nowadays he wouldn't have done time, he would have gotten a political appointment.
All y'all are completely clueless. That is Tyler and he's been snorkelling. Bitchez. Better go get your scuba gear, boyz...
A ten pound shirt? Hope it doubles as body armor.
Anf they still look like jerks ;)
I understand the psychology behind ostentatious displays of wealth but solid gold toilets, guns, shirts etc. has to be something different than ordinary vanity/lust.
He is a politician https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdHJOyFEfBU
Well I think his story of it "got lost in the wash" will work better than all the boating accidents you guys have.
Don't forget to read the fine print on the dry-cleaner's slip.
...&, no, You can't wash it in warm with like colors or it will shrink...
So how much does he pay his textiles workers?, I hope it wasn't the usual £2 a day like many of these assholes factory owners.
Where's his organ grinder?
Good taste...but i would prefer to buy stocks. Especially good dividend growth stocks that pay me a solid income and doubles over 10 years or so.
Royal Silver actually had a 2k bond (AUD) that paid out dividend in silver ounces for 2 years, monthly payout.
A fiat-payout that "doubles" means little when the cost of living can more than double in the same time frame. Tangibles are real value & fiat is merely an IOU that can't be repaid in full.
Well you do have to admit the guy needs help and you can also buy a better looking rayon shirt for less than 50 bucks.
tru dat. liesure suit larry comes to mind.
This is nothing , many (many) Indian ladies have 5-1/2 yard Sarees made of Gold thread.
My advice to Pankaj :
Hide it man , hide it,
Last time Indians boasted of their Gold, diamonds , silver & jewels , the pirates , The British East India Company authorized by British King (few hundred years ago) , and also many other European colonists colonized India using Divide & Conquer policy. Within a short time they looted all the treasuries of Indian rulers and transported that to Britain in 100 ships. Even the diamond in the crown of British queen called Kohinoor is an Indian loot. What was the price Indians paid? 10 million Indians died in famines etc. And British ppl do not speak about this all that just like Indians do not speak about their caste system and their treatment to other religions for thousands of years.
And British established their first garment factory in your state Pankaj , in Gujarat(Surat).
Dincha-no, looting & enslaving a local populace to feed an empire of thieves is OK if you belong to the right tribe. Too bad for Indians (east & north-american), Palestine, Tamils & aboriginals from Australia.