He can even afford his own buttoner.
Posted on 08/08/2014 5:44:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A wealthy Indian businessman celebrating his 45th birthday made sure he looked the part - by having a shirt made of gold.
Pankaj Parakh, the owner of a multi-million pound textile business, spent £127,000 on the shirt which weighs almost four kilos.
A team of 20 craftsmen spent 3,200 hours creating the shirt out of 18-22 carat gold.
It has seven gold buttons but was created to have the same flexibility as a normal shirt.
Mr Parakh, who left school with no qualifications, said: “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."
He added: “Yet, for my marriage 23 years ago, many guests considered me an embarrassment as I sported more gold than the bride.”
Mr Parakh is hoping the unique garment will get him into the Guinness Book of World Records and the Limca Book of Records.
Last year Datta Phuge of Pimpri in India spent £160,000 on a gold shirt, but it weighed in less at 3.3kg.
That's a nice shirt buddy? Did you get a bowl of soup with that?
He can even afford his own buttoner.
His money. I say, go for it.
Does anybody know a Desi version of Gert Fröbe we can cast?
He needs to afford armed security!
“MONEY WELL SPENT!”
I’d give you the shirt off my back!
Do you have the name of a good tailor, er goldsmith?
Old, medieval stuff - “cloth of gold” - was fairly usual among Indian princes and the like.
How do you wash it?
I’m sorry, that’s a pretty sharp looking shirt there. Seems like they didn’t take into account the stiffness of the gold fabric in calculating the collar. But aside from that blemish (perhaps fixed in shirt 2.0), it looks great. I’d certainly wear that shirt, on my way to having it melted down and get the cash for it....
Nice detail on that shirt for being threaded gold.
That would also describe most American PhD's, I believe.
It needs to be dry cleaned, boss. I’ll get it back to you next week.
LoL, it took forever to see what was behind the curtain.
No, I wasn’t. I guess they thought that using that many bytes was befitting such a shirt. Can you post a more affotrdable one?
I have no idea who that is.
Ha, that pic is 3600x2432 in size. No wonder 10mb...
LOL, sooner or later, I knew somebody would say that. I am just surprised it took this long.
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