Pune, April 27 (ANI): One of the most expensive shirts in the world surprisingly belongs to an Indian. It is made of gold at a staggering $250,000 to fulfil his twin obsessions of gold and fame. The 32-year-old moneylender Datta Phuge, from Pune, ordered the golden shirt, which took a team of 15 goldsmiths working 16 hours per day and two weeks to create the spectacle after some very intricate, weaving and knitting of the gold threads. Phuge said that he always wanted to do something, which would make him famous all across the country and get his name into record books. “I had the desire to do something that would spread my name across India. So the owner of this store, Tejpal Ranka gave me this idea to make a gold shirt.
So it was then I decided to get this gold shirt made, so that my name spreads across India.” Jeweller, Tejpal Ranka, said that Phuge has been his regular customer for many years buying gold chains and coins. “We got the concept of the shirt from the armours of kings, which they used to wear when they used to go to fight. And we found some old dyes, which were available in our old manufacturing unit and using those same dyes we created this piece of shirt for Mr. Phuge,” said Ranka. The shirt comes complete with its own matching cuffs and a set of rings also crafted from gold. The designer of the shirt said the sifting through historical paintings and books; they checked various armours worn by the kings and warriors to zero down on the final design for their “masterpiece”. The gaudy shirt has been assembled on a fabric base of imported white velvet, and comes with six Swarovski crystal buttons and an intricate belt, all made up of gold. Commenting further an ecstatic Phuge said that the gold shirt has been one of his dreams and it would be an embellishment to his reputation as the “Gold man.” “When I was 20-years-old, I had this dream that if we wear gold then people think that the person belongs to a good family. But at the age of 20 I did not have the financial condition, which I have now, to buy and wear gold,” Phuge added. (ANI)