The Hindu : Vajpayee orders sherwanis from Pakistan

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Vajpayee orders sherwanis from Pakistan

Islamabad Jan. 7. The Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has ordered two sherwanis from a Pakistani designer-couple with the kind of embroidery he had seen on the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's sherwani 30 years ago, a local daily reported today.

The Karachi-based designers, Amir Adnan and his wife Huma, told The News that Mr. Vajpayee had, on his flight to Islamabad, expressed to his entourage the wish that he landed in Pakistan wearing a sherwani. In Islamabad, when his hosts asked him what kind of traditional gift he would like to have, he said he had a profound liking for sherwani, , according to the designers.

Amir and Huma said Mr. Vajpayee came across as a "very pleasant, soft and decent personality." Instead of flamboyant and bold colours, he preferred black, charcoal, beige and off-white colours. "He also likes delicate embroidery and was very impressed with the embroidery on Bhutto's sherwani collars which he had seen 30 years back and still remembered it. He ordered for the same kind of embroidery on his sherwanis." — PTI

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