Before you go on to read this article, stop awhile and think about the fashion industry of the 1990s and early 2000s in Botswana. Did you know any local fashion designers or local fashion brands then?
In those days you found tailors everywhere, at every street corner but the problem was that the only service you got from them was that of stitching and altering the clothes you already had.
Over the years, however, Botswana's fashion industry has picked up the slack, whipping up tremendous changes among the get-up-and-go younger section of the population. From a state of near non-existence a few years ago, the industry is now on a roll, and often trendy, young leading the changes.