Datta Phuge of Pimpri-Chinchwad, India, spent £14,000 ($22,754) on a custom-made gold shirt to impress women. The shirt is woven through with 24-karat gold thread and comes with matching cuffs, belt, and rings made of leftover gold. The six buttons are Swarovski crystals. Phuge made his fortune as a money-lender.
'I know I am not the best looking man in the world but surely no woman could fail to be dazzled by this shirt?' he explained
'The gold shirt has been one of my dreams,' Mr Phuge told Indian newspaper the Pune Mirror.
'It will be an embellishment to my reputation as the ‘Gold man of Pimpri"' Mr Phuge said.
That shirt is guaranteed to attract gold diggers. Link -via Breakfast Links
Ostentatious display of wealth is what it's all about. Indians are very impressed by gold, the more yellow the better. Families tie up their fortunes in gold, and not in the banks.