For better or for worse

Once described as a gold mine, businesses in both Selangor Mansion and Malayan Mansion are no longer drawing the crowd.

TAILOR Vimala Devi Ramayah, 66, was spotted meticulously sewing saree blouses in her small shop on the second floor of the Malayan Mansion in Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur.

Bent over her old sewing machine, she barely noticed when the StarMetro team walked into her humble yet charming establishment called Valli Tailors.