(Male,30)

I would be immigrating to Canada from India in a few months. I want to know what type of clothes to bring to Canada. What sort of dress code do they follow.? Do I need to bring in heavy jackets to prevent from winter?

1. Will simple shirts and trousers do or do I need to have a few suits stiched?

2. What type of dress do Indian girls/women wear who work in office setting/departmental store setting?


Regards,

Raj

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Clothes are not so expensive in Canada. You can get Jeans pant almost at the same price as in India. However not all clothes are cheap. In-fact most of the time we are getting inferior quality clothes in Canada compare to India. Jeans are good here, so it is not required to bring from India. If you prefer tailor made clothes, then you must bring it from India. Here anything required manpower is so expensive. If you buy ready-made pants but require some alteration before using it, and then also you must bring it from India, otherwise you might have to pay big dollars. (For example, to shorten one cotton pant, I paid 10 dollars). All Indian ladies items are very expensive here. You can get fair quality Punjabi suit staring from 100 dollars and it goes up to 300 dollars. Though everything is available including saris, chaniya choli, gharara, sharara etc. all are expensive. If you are fond of Navratri then you must bring good stuff as Navratri in Toronto is celebrating Navratri quite greatly, so you will have change to wear those. On top of that most of the religious functions are celebrated in temples, so you will have many chances to wear traditional clothes. Children’s clothes are not available in good quality, so you may need to bring those. However here kids might need different kind of clothes. For example frocks are not common here. You should bring good leather or heavy jackets from India. They are available here (Made in India) but quite expensive. You can also bring light jackets. In summer you need light clothes. Sports shoes are available here in great variety and with good price. You should not bring them. Leather shoes are very expensive here, so please bring couple of good pair. You may bring Hawaii Chappal from India. Leather belts are also little expensive here, so you might need to bring more belts per person from India. Good suits are required for gents at the time of interview (for office kind of jobs), but it is not compulsory. Good while shirt on any dark (non-jeans) pant is enough. If you like to bring suits, you can do so, but only one is enough. Here people wear suits on some occasions, but it is not so common.

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