Back are the days when gloomy husbands become gloomier, toiling day and night to be able to afford the latest designer lawn brands — an absolute essential for the Pakistani summer wardrobe — for their wives.

Once a part of the same bandwagon, I was amongst the countless women dying to lay a finger on that much coveted Sana Safinaz lawn jora.

Yet, this winter has been a time of reflection and retrospection. It could possibly be my first season of finally being a graduate and also a working woman.

Whether it is indeed a part of growing up or simply realising what it means to be putting blood and sweat into a 9 to 6 working day, it has made me recognise, beyond a shadow of doubt that I am done losing sleep over lawn prints.

 

In style: The fashion lawn bubble

 

With the recent onset of mild spring and the premature, yet full-on launch of a famous brand’s lawn collection this year already, the ghosts of the past return to haunt me.

Women camping outside Saleem Fabrics Lahore the night before the release of a lawn collection, desperately exhausting every number in their phone books to find a contact within the store who could ‘reserve’ the suits for them before anyone could even set their eyes on them are some of the disturbing highlights from last year.