Stylist Cotton Cap

If you’ve ever walked down Main Road in Pahari Dhiraj, you know how crowded it gets near Sadar Bazar. Our shop, Stylist Cotton Cap, is right there at 4881. It’s a busy spot near Gandhi Nagar, and there is always noise from the street. We spend our days surrounded by fabric and sewing machines. Making cotton caps isn’t as easy as it looks when you have to do so many every week. We started this small shop because we knew how to work with textiles. It’s a family-run kind of thing mostly. We get people coming in from all over the market looking for different styles. The space is a bit tight because we have stacks of cloth everywhere, but we know where everything is. You’ll usually hear the hum of the machines and people haggling outside. We don’t do much advertising; people just see the shop when they’re passing by Gandhi Nagar or wandering near the other Gandhi Nagar shops. Sometimes we stay late to finish a batch if there’s a big order. The light inside isn’t the brightest, but we make it work. It’s a lot of cutting, stitching, and checking the seams. We don’t have fancy titles here. We just make caps and hope people find them useful. It’s a fast-paced life here in the bazar, and we’ve been part of it for a long time now. We just take it day by day and keep the thread running through the needles until the sun sets.