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Mahatta Photo Studio had been in the family since his grandfather founded it in 1915. “We have a picture here of a queue of 40 or 50 Englishmen waiting to come in to have their photographs developed,” he went on. He pointed out ancient photos of Kashmiris in formal dress and showed us black-and-white images printed on silver gelatine paper. He whipped a black hood off a stand-up wooden camera, its 1938 receipt from Glasgow neatly tucked into its sides. “I’m so happy someone is interested in these things,” said the elegant proprietor, Jagdish Mehta, his spotless white tunic matching his thatch of white hair, and his language as formally beautiful as a Tennyson poem.

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Then we climbed an unlit set of stairs in the same block, and found ourselves in a dusty room full of sepia-tinted photos of Kashmir, from the days of the 1930s novel Lost Horizon, and decades-old Brownie cameras from the Raj. We stepped into Asia Crafts next door, where silver-tongued Kashmiris unrolled carpets that seemed to change colour every time they were turned upside-down. We stopped to take a look at Suffering Moses, a store that had been dazzling visitors with its papier-mâché boxes since a century before my mother first visited, in 1941. The moment that upended me came one sunny morning, near the centre of Srinagar, when Bealby led me around the colourful and aromatic shops along The Bund.

Yet no good trip plays out in only one key. Yet instead of avoiding the place that had cut his life in two, Bealby became the first foreigner to lead a tour group back to Kashmir, 16 years or so later, and now returns again and again. My British tour guide on the trip, Jonny Bealby, had come to Srinagar 25 years before and gone through the traveller’s ultimate nightmare: he awoke one morning in a houseboat named for dreams to find that his 25-year-old girlfriend of five years was dead by his side, reportedly the victim of an overnight asthma attack. That summer, 36 flights were touching down in Srinagar each day, bringing 1.3 million Indians, often on pilgrimage, to a jewelled valley that has long enchanted Mughals, British officers and backpackers.Įverywhere I turned, there were stories of rebirth. The Japanese, German and British governments had all recently lifted their travel advisories against visiting the area, and although more than half a million Indian soldiers remained – and more than 70,000 people had lost their lives in Indo-Pakistani violence there since 1989 – all official talk was of the future. If you’re not sure, you really cant go wrong with getting your normal size.When I stepped off the plane in Srinagar two years ago, I was eager to celebrate Kashmir’s attempts to revive itself after more than 20 years of brutal civil war. If you want it more fitted i would say size down, if you care about length then size up. Tbh, I will probably get the rest of the breezy shirts in M for length. I think I read somewhere on tik tok that Matilda said to size up for length so thats why i got a medium here. So when i got the breezy shirt in white i got a Medium and its a bit longer but still oversized while not looking too big or boxy on me.

It was a perfectly oversized but not suuuper long. I got the blue stripe shirt first in a small and it fit me perfectly. The oversize fit will probably be the same no matter what sizeįor sizing, I’m about 5’4, 130-140lbs, in between a 34B-36C in bust and and a 26-27 waist with a bit curvier hips and normally get a size small with other Djerf Ave pieces. If you’re not sure, you really cant go wrong with getting your normal size.

It’s structured and not see through which is great.įor sizing, I’m about 5’4, 130-140lbs, in between a 34B-36C in bust and and a 26-27 waist with a bit curvier hips and normally get a size small with other Djerf Ave pieces. My mom touched it and was like wow great material.

totally worth investing in this because it will literally be in your closet forever and can be worn in so many ways with so many different things.

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