Indian customers browse items in a fashion store in New Delhi. Young people’s appetite for Western clothes has led a fresh flurry of foreign brands to open up in India. Photo: AFP
Rifling through sweaters in India's first Gap store in a glitzy New Delhi mall, 21-year-old Ridhi Goel says her grandmother doesn't mind how she dresses, as long as it's not too revealing.
“She's fine with me wearing Western clothes like a shirt but not jeans and a crop top,” said the journalism student, her grey leggings contrasting sharply with her mother's colourful kurta.
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