Chosen with intent
There are hundreds of independent clothing labels selling online in India. Here’s what I can tell you about this one.
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The road, the cloth, the meaning.
Named for my son
My son is called Aahan. It means the first light of day. We chose it before he arrived, the way you do, saying it out loud a hundred times to see whether it held...
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The Green Label
Look at this site, then at the label sewn into the collar, and they don't match. The site is black and white. The label is green. The green was settled before the website existed, and by the time the black and white came together, the labels were already woven. So the first...
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Five days in Guangzhou
I went to Guangzhou in the last week of July with a list and not much else. The list said 500 pieces, ten or twelve designs, heavyweight cotton, nothing loud. What I did for five days was feel cloth between my fingers, turn things inside out, and put back the ones that...
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