Dhaka, Jan. 9 -- At the onset of this winter, Kohinoor Begum visited the New Market here to buy a jacket for her granddaughter and found it hard to find one within her budget.

"We checked the local brands first but didn't find anything likable within our budget," she recalls.

Kohinoor Begum ended up buying a Chinese-made jacket at Tk 1,600. "The quality of our local product is not impressive," she notes with a hint of disappointment. "We were looking for jackets costing between Tk 1,000 and Tk 2,000, but local goods weren't good enough."

She went on saying, "I'm disappointed that our local markets are dominated by foreign brands."

Higher prices and lack of diversity of locally-produced winter clothes are encouraging many Bangladeshi c...