Dustline started as two rails in a Zamzama shop with a printer in the back. It has grown a little since. Not much.
Twenty-four garments, made properly, in two units we have both stood inside. That is the entire business.
The idea was simple enough. You could buy a good plain tee in Karachi for two hundred rupees and it would last a month, or you could pay six thousand for an imported one with a logo on it. There was very little in between, and what there was got the fit wrong — cropped bodies, tight sleeves, cuts drawn for a different climate and a different way of dressing.
So we started with one tee, in one weight, in four colours, and we did not add anything to the range until that one was right. It took nine samples. It is still the thing we sell most of.
“Cotton, cut for forty degrees, at a price that makes sense in rupees.”
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Most streetwear on sale in Pakistan is drafted for a European winter. Lined jackets, 14oz denim, wool blends. We cut lighter — unlined outerwear, 12oz denim, cotton that moves air — because a garment you cannot wear for eight months of the year is not a bargain at any price.
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Everything is made within thirty kilometres of the shop, by two units we visit every week. Nothing is imported and nothing is priced off a dollar conversion, which is why a heavy hoodie is Rs 4,490 and not Rs 12,000.
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Longer bodies, full sleeves, hems that sit where you want them. We draft the women's range on its own block rather than shrinking the men's, and we keep the coverage generous by default — because most people here want the option, not a compromise.
Seven days to exchange anything unworn, with the tags on. Wrong size is the most common reason and the easiest to fix — message us on WhatsApp and we will send a rider for the swap in Karachi, or a courier slip anywhere else in Pakistan.
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