Playing dress up begins at age 5
and never truly ends...It started out with one phug. A friend for Gherkin. So he wouldn't incessantly dress up in costumes. Where other Telenine's loved running through Peka Park or the mountainous Veta Lake area, generally being outside in nature, Gherkin much preferred Centropolis. At a push he would play around the Survivor Memorial but really it was so he could be close to Esmerelda's shop. He wouldn't be completely bothered if he couldn't sneak in, so long he could sneak away with the scraps of fabric she would throw out.
Gherkin adored Pickle at first sight. A little friend he could dress up in any costume he dreamed of. After a few yelps from wayward pins, Gherkin finished his first design - a Bumblephug. After that, with head down and tail up, he sewed and sewed and sewed and sewed. Before he knew it he had enough costumes for 5 phugs. A true lightbulb moment, he had a brilliant idea. All that time spent around Esmerelda really paid off. He would have a Phug Fashion Show every year at Morostide debuting his own haute couture.
After seven long years of imaginative and groundbreaking designs, a brand at fever pitch, Gherkin decided 2018 would see the last of his phug army - a fashion line designed as a tribute to his beloved pie.