Binod Panta
Kathmandu, January 8: Seven youth out of ten can be seen covering their face by mask around the metro areas. Mask mania has been a latest fashion that has hit the trend of this summer.
Santa Rai BBS Ist year student at Bajra international college, says he prefers mask not because of latest fashion trend but because of present environmental situation of summer. He added mask prevent us from different types of communicable diseases so he use mask but not because of fashion trend. But opposing Mr. Rai’s views BBA 4th semester student at Thames International College, Rajiv Lama use mask because he wants to be up to date with the modern fashion trend. Putting on mask makes me feel cool and bold so I use mask, he added.
Though the reason of using mask may be any, but the beneficial factor has been provided to the clothes and boutique houses. Because of fashion trend or to avoid bad environmental condition not only use but even children and old ones are seen using masks. This acted as an accelerator to the shop owners who are happy as the sale of mask these days has reached a great height.
Prabeg Shakya, an owner of a cloth shop at united world trade center, Tripureswar says that the selling of mask these days is many times more than the selling of mask few years ago. Moreover, youth are seen to be attractive toward mask comparing to the people of other age group. The intention of using mask has been found different even though a huge mask is attracted toward mask.
