A trip to the small mom-and-pop textile shops at Ang Mo Kio Central used to be a Chinese New Year ritual for my mother and me.
We would go to the stores a month ahead of the festival to shop for fabric to make new clothes for her mother-in-law, my paternal grandmother. In those days, tailor-made clothes were still in fashion and there were much fewer choices for elderly women.
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