Mrs. A-Shi
Q: May I ask why you want to work in this industry?
A: Because there is interest, there are going to make money.
Q: May I ask how long you work in this industry?
A: State graduation began almost thirty years.
Q: May I ask what is the largest repair?
A: everything, but change is the greatest length.
Q: May I ask you to work with the most difficult problems encountered?
A: Fortunately, as it has been doing for a long time, there is nothing that difficult.
Q: May I ask what tools you need to mend clothes?
A: tailor cars, scissors, thread, cloth feet, these are the most basic tools.
Q: What are the most commonly received is in need of repair?
A: dress pants is broken, there is off-line should complement, as well as to modify the length of the pants, dress pants size is too large to be piecemeal, if left too small cloth also can be enlarged.
Q: What is the hardest place to modify?
A: If the clothes do not leave the cloth also insisted to increase, we need to cut the cloth to increase, it would be more trouble.
Q: Because no one will take the clothes bothered to modify it?
A: Of course not, the business has been good.
Q: Is there an interesting work experience?
A: Fortunately, it has been for many years, doing almost all the same.
Q: What is your business hours?
A: time for a long time, usually have to make more than 12 hours, no holidays.
Q: What are the details need to pay attention to modify the clothes?
A: Fortunately, because it is thirty years experience has been very rich, no problem.
Q: How much of this technology takes time to learn? To turn to learn?
A: Generally 2-3 years later, as I was graduating from Taipei to custom made clothes shop as an apprentice.
Q: Now are encouraged to not discard old clothes, the clothes that people have a lot to modify it?
A: Many, but also take the clothes to fill a lot of people.
Q: What are the most frequently received to make up for that?
A: The most commonly receive jeans, because most can be mended, but expensive to buy a new pair of jeans.
Q: How much make up the most expensive piece of clothing?
A: The most expensive 300 yuan.
Experience Sharing
Beitou market today come visit many years of experience do repair clothes Hung aunt, she has done a forty-four years is a seasoned expert in her hand bruised, but she said: "tailor the car is a doctor." Flips tailor the car, here are a lot of oil, her little secret is inside the handle into the oil, and soon after, the hand will heal wounds, people really feel very magical.
Access to a lot of problems, I think the most went to the bottle showed that foreigners will flood aunt there is a piece of cloth, wrap it in a bottle, to someone else.
I feel that this industry is very environmentally friendly, because the original broken sew clothes can not waste resources, but must slow work to do in this industry alive thickness, if careless people to do it, the guests, then break out the clothes, people will pay a lot of money.
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