Our very first THIS FASHION outlet was opened in Toa Payoh Central, a Housing Development Board (HDB) estate. From there, we continued expanding into other HDB estates such as Ang Mo Kio, Tampines, Clementi, Bedok, Bukit Panjang and Bendemeer. Due to expensive rents from locations in the Orchard Road belt and the lack of suburban shopping centers at that point in time, we had to limit our expansion to HDB estates. However, in 1995 when new suburban shopping malls started opening up, we decided to shut down some of our HDB outlets and moved into these newly opened malls such as Tiong Bahru Plaza and Eastpoint Mall.