Times opportune for Eid tailoring biz

Tailoring and fashion houses in the port city of Chattogram are doing a roaring trade, as evidenced by scenes of hectic dress-making activities.

The tailors and designers have been going through a punishing schedule night and day ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.

More than 6,000 tailors are working overtime at Khaliphapotty, a tailors' den, cutting, sewing and stitching clothes for an Eid-centric clientele.

Sources said there are more than 12,000 tailoring shops and several thousand tailors are making dresses for city-dwellers in the commercial city.

Khwaja, Century, Elegant, Ferdous, Boro Shaheb, Chhoto Shaheb, Men's Club, I Fashion, Dorjibari, Friends Tailors and Fabrics, Ibrahim Tailors and Fabrics, Sadia Ladies Tailors, Antora Ladies Tailors, Nure Ladies Tailors, Syma Ladies Tailors and Soudia Ladies Tailors are favourites with them.

Meanwhile, posh tailors in the town have already stopped taking orders of new dresses. They get their ordered dresses from the factories at Khaliphapotty.

As a result, tailoring shops and designers are passing busy time making dresses, including shirt, pants, salwar-kameez and other gents' and ladies' wear.

It is time for collecting dresses from the makers. It is also time for earning some good money for dress makers and factory hands.

Shimama Akter, a housewife, said, "We've given orders before Ramadan. Now, we are collecting dresses from tailoring shops from different shopping malls."

Schoolteacher Morsheda Islam Koli said she used to stitch our dresses. She gave some orders before Ramadan while we will give some orders now.

Javed Iqbal, a businessman, said, "We've given orders for pants to the tailors while we used to buy our ready-made shirts. We also buy panjabi."

Shahed Selim, who owns Khawaja Tailors and Fabrics, said, "We're trying to satisfy our regular customers. Besides, some new customers who gave order before Ramadan, we're doing their dresses."

Mohammed Abdul Malek, a tailor working at Khaliphapotty said the tailors here are very busy now working almost twenty-four seven.

"We are taking rest at shops or factories as we have no time to go home during the Ramadan," he added.

Another tailor Mohammed Salah Uddin said, "We're working hard as we want to earn more before Eid. So, I'm happy with stitching new dresses for dwellers. We're making Eid happy and colourful for them."

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