MANIKGANJ: The selling of warm clothes is increasing in different markets of the district due to falling temperature in last couples of days, reports BSS.

The cold wave disrupted normal life of the people specially the poor people.

Most of the shopping malls of the town and upazila headquarters are thronged with the customers from morning to evening every day.

Demand of cardigan, sweaters, blazer and others warm clothes have been increased in the markets.

Ahsan, a shop keeper of “Nakshi” on the Shahid Rafique road said that the higher class and middle class customers finding foreign woolen clothes.

But low income people are finding for local products. Another shop keeper, Wadud, an employee of a shopping mall at Tripti plaza said that some customers were busy to collect the Kashmiri shawl.

This correspondent when visited some markets at the bus stand and bazar found that a lot of people were busy to buy the old warm cloths.

A rickshaw puller Selim said, he has bought an old cardigan for his wife at a cost of Tk. 80 only and a sweater for him Tk. 60 and he is happy.

Some moveable shops of warm clothes were found at the bus stand area where a lot of buyers were shopping.

A moveable shop keeper, Abdul Qader, who was trading on a rickshaw van, said that selling of old warm clothes was his seasonal business and it was profitable.