That has not really changed. We still choose every piece by hand, still cap most collections at a dozen, and still answer the phone ourselves. What has changed is that there are now enough of you that a Facebook album stopped being a sensible way to shop.
This site exists so you can see the whole collection at once, in the right colours, with the fabric named and the price shown — rather than scrolling comments to ask whether medium is still available.
How we buy
Almost everyone selling Pakistani lawn in Dhaka is buying from the same handful of suppliers. The photographs are the same, the descriptions are the same. What differs is which pieces someone is willing to put their name on.
Every piece we carry is checked against four things before it goes up:
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Is the mirror work stitched or stuck?
Glued mirrors come off in the first wash. We check the reverse of the panel before anything else, and this alone rejects most of what we are shown.
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Is the dupatta the weight it looks?
Chiffon and organza photograph identically at any quality. We handle every one. Thin dupattas are the most common corner cut in this trade.
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Does the print run true across all three pieces?
On an unstitched set the kameez, dupatta and trouser lengths should read as one cloth. When a supplier makes up the numbers with a near-match, we pass.
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Would we wear it ourselves?
Unscientific, and the one that rejects the most.
Why the collections are small
We buy in named drops rather than a rolling catalogue, and most run to a dozen pieces or fewer. Partly that is capital — we pay for stock up front. Mostly it is that a small collection can be genuinely chosen, and a large one cannot.
It does mean pieces sell through and do not come back. If something is in your size now, that is usually the window.
Buying with confidence
Ordering clothes online in Bangladesh still asks a lot of trust, and we would rather earn it than assume it. Cash on delivery is our default, not an afterthought — you pay the courier at your door, after the parcel is in your hands.
We call to confirm every order before it ships, which catches wrong sizes and wrong addresses before they become returns. If a piece is not what you expected, exchanges are open for seven days.