Public give their vote to Sumayah

Company boss quit politics to set up clothing brand

- RAMAZANI MWAMBA

THE queue for the small Muslim women's clothing store in Levenshulme wrapped around the corner on its opening day. Found on Stockport Road, Sumayah offers the type of fashionable garb that many young Muslim women have been crying out for.

This was something that the company's namesake, Sumayah Saadi, gradually realised as she built the business. She is the owner and founder of Sumayah a 'modest' fashion brand that mainly sells abayahs, robe-like dresses predominantly worn by Muslim women.

"I did not anticipate so many people coming," she says. "We came at 9am to sort out the store before opening and the queue was already down the road.