Besides providing firm support to her family — as a wife, mother and grandmother — she was also a meticulous person who paid close attention to little things. And these included Lee’s shirts, which Kwa ensured were specially tailored.
Since the ‘60s, Kwa used to visit CYC Tailors to get custom-made shirts for her husband.
And the loving wife’s requests were simple — classic cuts in pastel colours — preferably pink, which was her husband’s favourite.
CYC Tailors managing director Fong Loo Fern described Kwa as a gentle and kind person, who never failed to enquire about her family’s welfare.
She said Kwa was also a kind and thoughtful person.
Fong said: “In 2001, when I did a promotion saying that I wanted to build up a collection of old shirts that we had made since the business started in 1935, Madam Kwa brought in three of Lee’s old shirts that were made in 1965.”
And there was one historically important shirt among them.
“That was the shirt he had worn on TV when Singapore went independent, Madam Kwa told me,” said Fong.
Kwa brought the receipts along too. “I was so amazed,” said Fong. The receipts were issued in 1965 and Kwa had kept them all those years. “To me she’s a person who is very meticulous and who really takes care of all the little things,” said Mrs Fong.
With the same care and attention, Kwa is known to have also proofread Lee’s memoirs even as she gracefully stayed in the background throughout their life together.
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