IT WAS HER WORK IN THE DULL, dour hospital corridors, day and night, and a particular distaste for the scrubs she had to wear every day, that made Felicia Tshite come up with a way to inject a pop of color into the theater of life and death.
Tshite, a medical doctor, also incidentally a Top 25 finalist of the Mrs South Africa pageant taking place in Johannesburg in October, took her passion for fashion to the operation theater with her own line of apparel for doctors named the Dream Doctor Collection.
The idea was born in 2014, when she visited a fabric shop for the first time, and loved the touch and feel of fabric.
“It was like I had this drip of love in me and I just couldn’t stop,” recounts Tshite.
But she had to keep her enthusiasm on hold as her studies consumed most of her time.
“When you are studying to specialize, there is no time for anything else. It’s just books, books and more books. So finding time to share that attention with my collection, let alone family, was not easy but I knew I had to.”
A wife and mother of two, and born in Rustenberg in South africa, Tshite was determined to succeed as an entrepreneur and was not ready to let anyone dissuade her.
Her husband supported her.
This story is from the August-September 2017 edition of Forbes Woman Africa.
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