Gold-crazy businessman is India's 'Man with the Golden Shirt'
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Indian businessman Datta Phuge poses for a photo with a shirt made of gold, worth 12.7 million rupees (S$294,000) at a shop in Pune. Mr Phuge's shirt is made up of 14,000 pieces of 22-carat gold and put together by 15 craftsmen over 16 days. At 3.32kg, the end product is so heavy that Mr Phuge has applied for a Guinness World Record. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Indian businessman Datta Phuge poses for a photo with a shirt made of gold, worth 12.7 million rupees (S$294,000) at a shop in Pune. Mr Phuge's shirt is made up of 14,000 pieces of 22-carat gold and put together by 15 craftsmen over 16 days. At 3.32kg, the end product is so heavy that Mr Phuge has applied for a Guinness World Record. -- PHOTO: AFP
Indian businessman Datta Phuge poses for a photo with a shirt made of gold, worth 12.7 million rupees (S$294,000) at a shop in Pune. Mr Phuge's shirt is made up of 14,000 pieces of 22-carat gold and put together by 15 craftsmen over 16 days. At 3.32kg, the end product is so heavy that Mr Phuge has applied for a Guinness World Record. -- PHOTO: AFP
Indian businessman Datta Phuge poses for a photo with a shirt made of gold, worth 12.7 million rupees (S$294,000) at a shop in Pune. Mr Phuge's shirt is made up of 14,000 pieces of 22-carat gold and put together by 15 craftsmen over 16 days. At 3.32kg, the end product is so heavy that Mr Phuge has applied for a Guinness World Record. -- PHOTO: AFP
MUMBAI (AFP) - India is a country known for its love of gold, but for one businessman a ring or chain was not enough.
Datta Phuge is now the proud owner of a golden shirt worth 12.7 million rupees (S$294,000), made up of 14,000 pieces of 22-carat gold and put together by 15 craftsmen over 16 days.
"Gold has always been my passion since a young age. I've always worn gold as jewellery in the form of bracelets, rings, chains," he told AFP.
The 42-year-old, who lives in the Pune district of western Maharashtra state, hatched the plan late last year with a local jeweller friend.
