As the wages of tailors increased, the trend of tailoring began to decline

Karachi: Due to increase in the wages of tailors, the trend of tailoring is decreasing and people are preferring ready-made garments.

The wages of tailors in Karachi are increasing every year, but the sharp increase this year has made it difficult to sew clothes. Men’s tailor shops in different areas of the city are demanding Rs 1,500 for tailoring a shalwar suit this year, compared to Rs 1,200 last year.

Due to the rising wages, the purchase of tailor-made clothes is being preferred and the trend of sewing clothes is decreasing in most of the households. Booking of orders for sewing Eid dresses starts from Sha’ban and reputed tailors stop taking orders after the first week of Ramadan.

Despite the increase in the wages of tailoring this year, the prices of the tailors are still intact and the tailors are not turning away new customers by justifying their busyness. Busier tailors take orders from specific customers to provide quality tailoring and satisfactory service to customers, but such tailors charge a nominal wage.

Tailoring orders for Eid are booked up to the 15th day at most.Men’s tailoring centers and popular tailoring shops in the city display new booking boards in the first week of Ramadan.

Eid is the biggest season for tailors, who face a shortage of manpower in Karachi. They earn employment by working from Saturday till the end of Ramadan and leave for their native areas on the morning of Eid.

The operators of tailoring shops are called tailors, tailor masters or masters in general. Usually the tailors themselves are shop owners who hire additional workers during the month of Ramadan to support them. Tailoring workers say cutting. It is impossible to run a tailoring shop if you do not do the work yourself. Fifty percent of shops providing tailoring services for Eid are temporarily opened which are closed after the Eid-ul-Fitr season is over.

Seasonal tailoring shops are not of the standard of tailoring as permanent tailoring shops and regular menswear tailors also prefer permanent tailors and such tailors are given the status of family tailors and these expert tailors also tailor only certain families. , and do not take orders from customers on the go. The tailors say that the demand for ready-made garments is increasing and the work of tailors is being affected due to load shedding.