73 and sewing strong


Happiness for Chong is doing what she loves - pleasing her customers with her dressmaking skills.

Jenny Chong has been a dressmaker ever since she was 17. 

The grandmother of two still operates from a rented shoplot in Section 14, Petaling Jaya, and uses an old Everite brand sewing machine to sew her customers’ garments.

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