Tiffany Jewelry

That was the beginning of a saga that has lasted several decades. It is a fairly long story with lots of twists, turns, up and downs.  Through all those years Joan, with her small production team, continued to ship garments to stores almost every day of her life. Once Joan had started the business that at first had been a hobby she did on her days off, she became tenacious at working for its survival. Since she started without training or experience in the industry and had no idea what could or couldn’t be done she developed her own style and her own production system.  Her first eight years in business were spent without her knowing what a pattern looked like. She cut each dress out of squares and oblongs with the help of a scissors and measuring tape. She taught herself about dying so she could get color on to her all white fabrics. She saw many “fashion darlings of the moment” come and go as she persisted onward.

Earlier in the day, before the show, Peshawar’s Qissa Khwani bazaar had been bombed. Just the day before, a bomb had also exploded in the office of Lahore’s Rescue 15 office. As a result, people seemed generally cautious about going to ‘public’ places.

In spite of the backdrop of country-wide turmoil, life moved on and culture seemed determined to thrive. Some might term it as indifference by several individuals belonging to the privileged class for choosing to host the show despite the above-mentioned events having occurred in the city, others might term it a determination by a section of the society to move forward despite the odds that threatened to impose upon them.