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AN INTERVIEW ABOUT SEWING




            CUSTOM PRODUCTION FOR
                                 Riders


                                                                                           and


                Horses











                                                                                             Name:
                                                                                         Eva Pšeničková
                                                                                            Country:
                                                                                         Czech Republic

                                                                                             Email:
            Dear Eva, thank you for taking the time to        since Septem-           www.despi-horse.cz
            provide us with a interview and answering our     ber 1993 I have
            questions.                                        had  my  own  T-
                                                              shirt  brand.  Here
            Please tell to our readers how you have started   I thought of devoting
            in business and what made you decide to focus     myself to what I enjoyed,
            on custom sewing for riders and horses?           even for hockey, I created a sports bra for the

            I was born in Prague and started with different   girls,  which  they  praised  a  lot.  Finally,  now
            sports as a child. My very first sport was figure   that I have so many horses, I started sewing
            skating,  but  circumstances  unfortunately  put   not  only  for  the  riders,  but  also  for  the  hor-
            an end to it. From the 1st grade of elementary    ses, which I am quite proud of when I hear the
            school, I started going to Mladý slavista, where   praise.
            every  day  I  had  a  different  sport,  namely
            swimming, athletics, modern gymnastics, etc.      Please tell us what kind of horses do you have
                                                              (breeds).

            By the end of it, I also played volleyball for 2   Horses? Lets go...
            years. In the end, I ended up playing field hockey,   My very first sweetheart was a 12-year-old CT
            where  I  was  active  for  about  25  years.  In  the   gelding named WEST-POINT, who is 22 years
            end, age got in the way and thanks to my niece    old this year. I remember when I brought him           Text written & photographs provided by: Eva Pšeničková
            Kačka, we started riding horses at a later age.   to the stable of the former Epona, now PPS, so
            As a 12-year-old, my mother signed me up for      everyone  wanted  to  clone  him  because  of  his
            a sewing club, where I charmed the teacher and    nature, he was just a sweetheart.
            my mother advised me to continue doing it. And
            in the end it happened. I am a trained ladies's   My second horse,  a  4-year-old  Tarpan  at  the
            tailor and I am still doing it to this day.       time, 13 years old this year, named Wiktor, but
                                                              we call him Cipísek. He's such a stubborn little
            After 1989, I worked for another 4 years, and     guy, but he's ours.



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