New Look Punjabi Jutti

We are out here near Sirhind Road in Alipur. It’s a bit of a dusty spot because of the traffic but people know where to find us. New Look Punjabi Jutti isn’t a massive factory or anything like that. It is just a place where we sit and work on the shoes day in and day out. You can smell the leather and the adhesives as soon as you walk through the door. We have these wooden benches where the work happens. Sometimes the traffic on the road gets really loud and we have to shout to hear each other. We don't really have a big sign out front, just the name. Most of the people who come here have been coming for years or they heard about us from a neighbor. The light in the back of the shop is a bit dim so we do the detailed work near the front window. It gets cold in the winter mornings but once we start moving it’s fine. We have piles of juttis in different stages of being finished all over the place. Sometimes the deliveries are late because of the weather or the road conditions. We just drink our chai and wait for the trucks. It’s not a complicated life here. We just try to get the stitching right and make sure the sizing isn’t off. Every pair takes a bit of time and there are no shortcuts.