Tailors hooray: ‘Ours is real Eid’

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Tailors hooray: ‘Ours is real Eid’

ISLAMABAD: Tailors are lurking these days everywhere as it is their season to make money. In Ramazan, tailors are busy like bees even in ungodly hours, making quick bucks in small and large markets. “Ours is the real Eid,” Tufail Khan, a tailor, told this news agency. He and his ilk have had their fill yet have orders raining down on them. The line between day and night has been blurred for them. Hard working and determined is how one can define them, looking them wok the machines. At the same time, hidden aspect of their personality pops up when they fleece customers who have no choice other than give in to them. “Every dog has his day. Today is the day of these tailors so let them do what they do,” said a woman trying to convince a tailor to do her suite at any cost, literally. The cost now ranges from Rs 250 to Rs 500. A sewer can sew up to 10 suits a day. In the last ten days, overcharging will gain a dangerous proportion. To up the anti, the tailors put up banners reading ‘booking is closed’, attracting all and sundry that they have loads of work because of their quality. It is not but a mirage as this banner will run on every shop. Baffled by it, when a customer will insist on have a suite don for Eid, the ‘Mr busiest’ will frown and tell him that he will have to pay double at the very least as it was hard to spare a sewer at this time. The poor customer, hence, will pay double with happiness. After Eid, marriage season will set in and the tailors will again be busy. “We have only these two seasons to make money. Who will come to us after that. So let us make money and I mean business,” said Shah Zaman, a tailor. Other tailors also echoed Zaman’s argument. app

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