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  • Indian Millionaire Spends £127,000 ($212,000) on Gold Shirt for Birthday Celebration (45 Years Old!)

    08/08/2014 5:44:05 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 31 replies
    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...