One of the many advantages of shopping online at utsavsarees.com is that we offer the facility where you can pay in your own local national currency without worrying about getting a permit for release of foreign exchange, conversion rate, service charges, etc.

Utsav has made all prior arrangements and agreements with credit card companies to make your online transaction at utsavsarees.com confidential, secure, convenient and in less a minute. When you pay at utsavsarees.com after checking out with your online shopping cart, you are automatically charged in your local national currency. The amount of your purchase appears in your next monthly credit card statement.

On the other hand, when you visit a sales outlet during your travel to another country, usually you have to carry bank notes or traveler cheques of international currencies like Dollar, Pound Sterling or Euro. Many times people report of having these hard form of international currencies lost or stolen. Similarly you have to take great care of your credit as well as debit cards while shopping in stores and you have to place these cards securely in your wallets.

With our secure online shopping facility at utsavsarees.com, the risks of your cash, traveler cheques, credit card or debit card getting lost or stolen are eliminated because you do the transaction on your home computer in the comfort and safety of your own home. Moreover we provide a coded and confidential transaction procedure. We have given several options of online payment where you can pay for your purchases through your credit card (Master Card / VISA / American Express / Diners Card) at GOOGLE, 2CO.com and PAYPAL. So much is the security of your online transaction that even we at Utsav do not come to know about your credit card details. It is all encrypted information when you check out with your online shopping cart at utsavsarees.com. The online price listed for your purchase is automatically converted into your local currency which appears in your credit card statement.

And there are no hidden services charges, no transaction charges and no currency conversion charges even though you shop at your own home and pay from your own home in your own local national currency while using our online payment facility at www.utsavsarees.com. Isn’t that amazing?

To take the online requests of our privileged customers, Utsav has provided an interactive live chat system where you can communicate directly with our customer support executive. We highly recommend you to use this chat feature at utsavsarees.com because of its following advantages.

· It costs you no money to communicate with us, no matter wherever you are on planet Earth

· You don’t have to download any special software which usually occupy a significant portion of your disk space on the computer

· It is interactive and so you can directly communicate with our executive

· It is much faster to communicate through our chat system than through the existing chat systems like MSN, Yahoo Messenger,etc.

Our aim has always been to provide a convenient and less time consuming online shopping experience to our privileged customers. To achieve this objective, Utsav keeps its IT technology updated.

You just have to click the Live Chat icon on our website utsavsarees.com. A window pops up and invites you to introduce our friendly executive with your name and email id.

Our customer support executives are IT executives who are well verse with our products. They will escort you into our online store and lookafter your specific needs.

With the help of live chat system, you can even give your measurements if you want a customized outfit for yourself. You can also give your valuable feedback which may help us in further improving our services for your needs. You are our privileged customer and Utasv cares for your every fashion need.

Our Live Chat interactive communication with our privileged customers is available from 10 AM to 7 PM (IST) and from 10 PM to 7 AM (IST) on all days from Monday to Saturday. When the Live Chat is offline, you are welcome to leave your name, email and specific request in the pop up window. Our customer support executive will soon communicate with you at a time convenient to you.

We look forward to meet you through our Live Chat feature on www.utsavsarees.com.

Dear customers and friends,

Thanks to all our daughters as well as sons and sisters as well as brothers who have purchased designer purses, sarees, lehenga cholis, salwar kameezes and footwears for their beloved mothers from utsavsarees.com on the utsav of the coming Mother’s Day on 11 May 2008.

We have received many suggestions and requests in the form of feedback from our privileged customers to offer a discount so that they could then gift to the mothers of their friends, relatives and bosses also. Seeing the kinship and love which has nurtured on the grand utsav of Mother’s Day, we are delighted to now offer a 20% discount to the first five hundred (500) customers who will buy anything and for any amount on the remaining last two days i.e. on 10 May 2008 (the Mother’s Day eve on Saturday) and 11 May 2008 (the Mother’s Day on Sunday). Use discount code - MAY20 at checkout.

The entire team at Utsav is feeling the joyous vibrations of this year’s Mother’s Day which you are sharing with us through your valuable feedback and continuous shopping at www.utsavsarees.com

Utsav welcomes all daughters and daughters-in-law to visit our online fashion store at utsavsarees.com, select the elegant dress / jewellery / purse / footwear for your loving mother and mother-in-law and avail a massive 20% discount (valid only for the first 500 customers) for all your purchases on 10 and 11 May 2008.

Use discount code - MAY20 at checkout to avail the discount.

! Happy Mother’s Day !

Nine yards of sheer net isn’t exactly an innovation. But ever since Bollywood actresses are spotted wearing them it has again in vogue and became the drape of the season. Especially, the youngsters seem to be fascinated by this beautiful sheer fabric. Net sarees are loved by all for their transparent charms. But there are few things you should remember before you step out in one for yourself.

The Fabric:  Net is a sheer and flouncy fabric. If you are thin, then net saree is a best suited outfit for you. The good thing about this fabric is that it can be dyed in any color so you as a wearer have a wide variety of shades to choose from. Net makes any kind of embroidery look more ornate. Every fabric has a best feature; this transparent beauty is appreciated for its color and embroidery on it. 

The Petticoat: The petticoat can make or shatter your look when you are in a net saree. Since, this saree is almost transparent you have to pay extra attention to what you wear underneath. Satin and brocade are the best preferences if you want a dressy look. Lycra is also a good pick as it hugs the curves of the body, which makes the net drape look ever so sexy. You could wear a heavily embroidered petticoat under a sparsely sequined net saree. Shaded petticoat will look awesome if the saree has embellishments.

The Blouse: It is best to coordinate the fabrics of the petticoat and blouse. It gives a clean look and you don’t have to stress about what fabric to buy for your blouse. It’s nice to match a western concept like the corset or the bustiers with a net saree.  Even you could go for an off-shoulder corset or a blouse held up with thick straps on the shoulders. The style entirely depends on what you are contented with.

The Jewelry: Heavy earrings and chunky bracelets or set of thick bangles are the best options. Long dangle earrings that come down to the shoulders are a good bet. As net sarees are usually embroidered so it’s better to avoid neckpieces.

Every customer enters the trial room in a sales outlet with a hidden fear. It is the fear of catching allergies from a poorly ventilated space. And also the fear of catching infections from a garment which has been tried by countless customers before you do.

But the readymade garment which caught your attention needs to be tried for its size, fitting and appearance. If you buy it without physically trying it in the physical sales outlet, and later on if you find in your home that its size does not fit you, then all your hard work as well as money spent for its purchase goes waste. Isn’t it?

At Utsav, no outfit is tried by another customer as we directly sell online only to you after manufacturing it. You are the first and the last buyer of the same garment whose picture you see at our utsavsarees.com, which you then purchase online, and which we henceforth, deliver to you. With no previous trials by any other customer, we eliminate all chances of catching an infection.

And allergies? No question of that since you are the customer to try it in your clean, hygienic and well ventilated home.

Besides, Utsav provides a clean and hygienic environment for its workers. Often the workers are educated about the advantages of hygienic living. They are trained and made to follow the hygienic standards of working during its manufacturing and packing operations.

With its no trial policy and provision of a hygienic environment in the workplace, Utsav has a zero tolerance for allergies and infections.

Utsav is a professionally managed company manufacturing elegant fashion clothes, designer jewellery, trendy purses and fancy footwear for women. In all its operations from the manufacturing stage to the online selling stage, Utsav employs only skilled and educated workforce above the age of 18 years. We never use child labour.

One of our new customers had a doubt about it and wanted to confirm from us before buying. She had heard and read in newspapers and on websites that some manufacturers employ child labour in India. So she wanted to know from us whether we were doing it. In response to her query, we want to reiterate that Utsav has always lived and grown progressively with the good reputation of providing exclusive and excellent quality fashion wear which are designed by professional fashion designers and stitched by experienced and skilled tailors. After manufacturing, our online sales are handled by educated IT executives who have graduated from reputed educational institutes. All fears and doubts of our privileged customer were calmed down once she purchased and received her perfect dress from utsavsarees.com.

Just like you, Utsav also strongly believes that children need basic education at least till the age of 14 years as recommended by the government. Our employees take good care of the nutritional and the educational needs of their children during their early formative years.

Utsav also shares its “No Child Labour” principle with all its employees.

Hence we feel an urge to make a proclamation, “Utsav has never employed child labour, is not employing child labour and shall never employ child labour”.

For Utsav, every moment of life, festival or business is an utsav. Through our manufacturing base in Jaipur and online sales at utsavsarees.com, we are not only fulfilling the fashion needs of our privileged customers but also we are promoting many arts and crafts which are dwindling due to fierce business competition or due to change in the tastes of fellow humans.

For instance, oriental fashion tastes are showing a shift towards westernized outfits. The reasons for this gradual shift of fashion tastes occurring over the past few decades are many. As a result of this transformation, many arts and crafts which once used to flourish in India have now vanished or are on the verge of extinction. Utsav feels good to have its origin in the magnificent land of kings and queens who admired, bolstered and gave patronage to these arts and crafts.

Our customers in India and overseas have a great liking for the fine embroidery weaved in our sarees, lehenga cholis and salwaar kameez. The ladies express awe when they see the subtleness of hand embroidery. Similarly they adore our kundan jewellery once they receive their selection from utsavsarees.com. In the era of machines, Utsav has tried, with success, to promote the ancient arts and crafts in a competitive global fashion industry.

We also promote traditional footwear for ladies, gentlemen and kids at utsavsarees.com. While making a typical Rajasthani footwear, our skilled artists are using different materials like cloth, plastic, wood from eco-friendly sources and leather. The designs in print and weave show Rajasthani culture.

Likewise, some of our elegant purses and handbags are made by tribals who have been trained to meet the manufacturing standards of Utsav. 

Utsav continues to promote the ancient arts and crafts in villages, tribes, towns and cities through its manufacturing base in Jaipur and direct online global sales at utsavsarees.com. It has been possible only through the purchases made by like minded and benevolent customers like you.

Without you, Utsav would not have been able to promote these ancient arts and crafts of India.

Whenever you shop online at utsavsarees.com, you are indirectly helping in conservation of clean and green environment. We explained this to an inquisitive darling daughter while she was purchasing a trendy purse for her mother on the utsav of Mother’s Day.

Since neither you nor we use any paper while making any online transaction, we are not destroying the trees which are the ultimate sources to paper. Whereas if you shop from any physical sales outlet, there is so much of paper work including copies of bills for the customer, the seller and the accounts. Utsav has converted all traditional paper bills into online bills.

Besides, the paper bills pile up with your other receipts, vouchers, etc. and you need extra space to store them. Even, we at Utsav, were experiencing the same problem. With the introduction of our online sales facility at utsavsarees.com, all of our bills are now stored on secure and confidential servers. You can also save a copy of your e-bill sent by us and your online transaction details sent by the credit card company in your free email inbox. You do not even have to buy an extra CD.

Also when you shop online at our utsavsarees.com, you have eliminated the use of your private transport or the public transport needed to visit the sales outlets in congested markets and crowded malls. Thus you are not using the fuel needed for your vehicle. And we all know about the astronomical increase in the price of oil these days. Don’t we?

Owing to the fuel consumed by private and public transport, there is emission of greenhouse gases into the environment, as a result of which we are facing the hazards of climate change and global warming.

With all these small but useful environmental friendly activities of yours, you are indirectly helping the environment to keep it clean and green.

Utsav always supports and welcomes your environmental friendly online shopping.

Introducing casual footwear range - mojaris for this summers. Also known as juttis, chappals, slippers, slip-ons at Utsav.

Please visit our collection of casual footwear for women at http://www.utsavsarees.com/pages/category.asp?cid=11

In an effort to provide a broad range of online payment options, Utsav has partnered with Google Checkout. Google Checkout can help to streamline your online purchases by:

- Providing you with one login/password to use across multiple online stores. Setting up a Google Checkout account allows you to complete purchases from multiple online stores without having to remember numerous passwords.

- Storing your credit/debit card information in one place. Your personal information will be stored securely in your Google Checkout account. Charges to your credit card are made by Google Payment Corporation, and your credit/debit card information is not shared with Utsav or any other merchant that uses Google Checkout.

- Giving you a single access point to manage your online purchases.
     
Once you have completed a purchase using Google Checkout, Utsav will send emails about order progress, shipping and tracking information. These emails will be sent to the e-mail address listed in your Google Checkout account. Your purchase history for all purchases made from Utsav or other merchants using Google Checkout will also be stored in your Google Checkout account. This makes it possible for you to easily manage and track your purchases in one place.

These great benefits are for your convenience and are absolutely free!

For more information on Google Checkout, please visit checkout.google.com!

To use Google Checkout on http://www.UtsavSarees.com
1. Add items to your shopping bag as you normally would.
2. Proceed to Checkout and click the Google Checkout button from the payment options on billing information page.