Creation is art. As God created the world, when a tailor makes a garment it is creation. It has a purpose of covering and protecting the body, giving warmth, creating a look, attracting and distracting someone or something. Creating a 3D garment from a 2D piece of textile takes time. The preparation: searching for inspiration and the design process. And the big chunk: the pattern constructing, the toile making for the perfect fit and the final stage: cutting the main fabric, the lining, the overlocking, the stitching, the ironing and all the hours it takes.
Yes, tailoring is an art, even though people easily think it is just all about stitching fabric pieces together. And of course the old myth of it should be cheaper compering to what one can buy in a shop. Well, ladies and gentlemen let me tell you, that tailoring and dressmaking is a specialised, high reliability skill and it is not cheap, at least not in this part of the globe. But of course there are places where people work for less than $1 a day and we happily buy clothes from the shops stocked with piles of fashionable garments made by them telling our friends about our bargains and worshipping the stores for their good prices. This is one side of the story. And the other is when that extremely cheap bargain needs alteration and we face the reality of the hourly wage in England.
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