Great to see members of this (work) Guild / Verna do well and their progeny prosper. I am glad you acknowledge and are proud of their / your contributions. I think though, you-both are selling your forebears short. Beyond being tailors, these pioneers were businessmen and business women.
Glad you proudly proclaim their contributions to Goan society. We have been ingrained with the idea that 'Outstanding Goans' were only the "boccan-bot, falla-purtuguese, empregado bamons." :=)) Regards, GL ------------ Gabe Menezes wrote: My borther-in-law's father Alleluia Fernandes was the first and founding President of the Tailor's Society in Nairobi - the Portuguese Consulate gave them a model Portuguese Caravel, on their opening, which was displayed at the Tailor's Society Club in Town. Alleluia had arrived as a young boy from Goa and started stitching for the Army. He learnt his trade well and became a good cutter and eventually a bespoke Tailor. He stiitched my Wedding Morning suit for me in London! ---------- Selma Carvalho wrote: The history of Goa written by those who wore those imported hats, is quite different from the history of Goa as lived by my parents in the villages. Their history belongs to the cooks, clerks and tailors that made their way to Africa and set up a Saint Francis Xavier's Goan Tailors' Society in Mombasa as early as 1905.
