S. K. Garments

You’ll find S. K. Garments tucked away on 2nd Street in the Kallampalayam Layout. We’ve got two units at number 24, and it’s a quiet enough street compared to the main roads. Most of the neighbors know us by now since we’ve been here so long. The morning starts with the sound of shutters rolling up all along the block. We spend a lot of time just moving boxes from one side of the room to the other. It’s a bit of a tight squeeze inside when we have a lot of stock, but we manage. The walls are covered in old calendars and some notes scribbled in pen near the light switches. There’s no air conditioning, just a few ceiling fans that creak a bit when they’re on high. We handle everything ourselves, from opening the bales of cotton to checking the final seams. It’s not glamorous work, but it keeps us busy from Monday to Saturday. Sometimes the delivery drivers get lost because the layout streets all look the same, so we have to go out to the corner to wave them down. We’ve got a small sink in the back where we wash up, and the water is always cold. It’s just a regular small business life where we try to keep things moving and hope the rain doesn't leak through the roof vent again this year. Everything is practical and simple here.