Do Cloth Tailors Make The Last Generation Of Civilian Tailors?

Recently, the highest temperature has reached 35 degrees Celsius, and many shops are eager to promote sales. Summer wear 。 At the end of the week, clothing stores in the county's small commodity market were often patronized, while the tailor shops on the inside were sparsely populated. Only the shopkeeper was sewing clothes, and some shopkeepers chatted with the boss next door. There are more than 10 tailoring shops in the small commodity market, and the tailor shops in the county are mostly there.

The tailor's business is to be remembered by hand.

In the 80s and 90s of last century, people living in Southern towns had the habit of pulling cloth to make clothes. Men wore fashionable tunic suits, while women were bats and bell bottoms.

"Always do one kind of ability to do the best, because the tailor's profession is to be remembered by hand." after decades of tailoring, the tailor regarded the tailor as a skill that could make him old.

The former clothing tools, far from the existing fashion designers, are relying on scissors, thimble, bamboo ruler, tweezers, needles, charcoal irons, and an old bee pedal sewing machine. The tailor used those hands that were chapped and calloused to cut and sew, day after day, and saw that the clothes he had been sewing had been put on his body, and he was happier than his new clothes.

Now most of the tailor shops are in concealed places, and the rent on the street can be regarded as sky high price for tailors. Hidden geographical location, skilled teachers, close distance "tailored", trance there is a kind of illusion of travel through time and space.

During the interview, Aunt Chen, who lives in Shanghai Zhang District, told the reporter enthusiastically: "the clothes we used to be young were custom-made, although now they are also buying clothes at the clothing store, but their favorite clothes are made by tailor shops."

In another shop, Miss Lu, a cold water town, Zhu Shan village, accompanied her old mother in measuring the size: "my mother is accustomed to wearing custom-made clothes, but the ready-made ones on the market are not accustomed to wearing them. I will take her to the tailor's shop every season, so that she can pick cloth herself and do it according to her previous style.

Ms. Lu also told reporters that she did not understand why the older generation had to make clothes, but later she saw what she saw and heard in the tailor's shop. Once, the tailor measured the size of her mother. "The ruler of the size is skew. I was a little worried that the size would be wrong, but I didn't expect my mother to wear the last clothes she made." To this, she was surprised. "It shows that Shifu is very experienced and can automatically correct the errors caused by manual measurement."

Tailoring industry "no successor"

Cao, who is 50 years old, has been engaged in tailoring industry for over 20 years. Initially, her shop was opened in the small hall of the vegetable market, and later moved to the small commodity market because of the demolition and renovation of the street. Sister Cao exclaimed: "there were five or six tailors in the former lane, and now the whole county has more than a dozen of the small commodity markets."

The golden age of tailoring industry development is the spanition from planned economy to market economy. "At that time, tailoring was a hot industry, and apprenticeship continued to come to school." Nowadays, few young people are willing to learn this business. The whole tailoring shop is a month of good business by Cao Tsai. Only her husband can help her to fight.

The phenomenon of "no successor" in tailoring industry is manifold. Since the reform and opening up, people's living standards have been improving. It is no longer a dream to go to university, but a common phenomenon in society. Most of the professional choices go to computer, tourism and other popular specialties. Although the young people who are facing job hunting have the intention to choose the clothing industry, they are rushing to the clothing store for sale or choose to operate independently. Coupled with the sales market that has been opened up by the Internet, moving fingers at home can buy large quantities of goods. Few people are willing to go out and "tailor" in person, so that the business of the tailoring industry is cold and the phenomenon of faulting in the tailoring industry is more and more obvious.

When asked about the age of customers, Cao replied that the middle-aged and elderly people were the main ones. However, in recent years, there has been a trend of younger consumption. Those young people who have just worked do not have much spare money on their hands. style And the sense of texture has certain pursuits. The price of the fashion shop is too high and the quality of the wholesale market is not good, so the tailoring shop between them becomes the best choice for some people. But after all, such a few young people can not play a leading role in the development of the tailoring industry.

Under the impact of the tide of market economy, people began to pursue the individualization of clothing, and the requirements for the customization of clothing were higher. Tailoring practitioners must improve their skills and constantly learn new styles to satisfy them. Customer demand 。 Although Cao is 50 years old this year, she has not stopped learning. A small shop has a computer besides all kinds of cloth and clothes. In her spare time, she would go online to browse the latest fashion elements and learn different styles of clothes.

However, Cao said that as her age increased, her eyes began to grow old. She would be tired of looking at sewing machines for a long time. She would rush to work from eight a.m. to 1 a.m. every day and earn enough to earn a living.

Through the search of various stores, the reporters found that the tailor's business slump is not a case. The average person can make one or two summer wear a day, and winter clothes can only make one. After a piece of cloth is cut and stitched to iron, the gorgeous spanformation can be completed. It takes about a week for the customer to place the order from the order to the garment. The complexity of the process, the aging of tailoring, this industry Problems such as successor and no one are attacking this declining industry.

"There are fewer and fewer people who dress themselves to make clothes, live less and earn less money, and now they are too old to do anything else." After listening to Cao's words, we can not help but ask, do you think that the tailor will become the last generation?