Practical International Trading

You know you’ve probably been walking around Sham Shui Po when HKD34/​m for lace sounds a bit dear, but PITC is an embellisher’s paradise.
The place says it specialises in trimmings, and does it ever! It comes with the lot.
Lace, beadwork, ruffles, fur, feathers and Pom poms, I saw it all, and walked away with a fair bit of it too …
If you’re the kind of crafty sort who likes to add collars to old t shirts or cardigans to jazz them up again, or if you’re clever enough to make your own, this is the shop you need to know to find those small pieces that really are the finishing touch — fabulousness. Honestly I saw enough stuff I liked in here to want to come home and start attacking almost every item in my wardrobe with a glue gun or needle and thread. But I restrained myself and settled for a metre of demure lace, a metre of pink sequinned chain link embellishment, and a metre of lace and woven beadwork trim. Now to just settle on what to do with them … Aaaaaa the possibilities …