During our dinner on Tuesday, 18th. October 2011, Shiwar told me that he has found a tailor shop that specialised in 24 hours suit. The said shop was a few blocks from our hotel and the cost of a suit was only US 95.00. Shiwar also wished to try a US 95 lounge suit for himself the next day.
On Wednesday morning, 19th October 2011, I went to the tailor shop which was just five shop lots from our hotel. My Sang Tailor specialized in 24 hour tailoring which offered US 95. dollars per suit. Based on my experience with 24 hours tailoring in Bangkok, I was not very convinced with the quality of sowing and at such I was very reluctant to order the lounge suit.
When I saw there were a few linen clothes on display, I inquired what was the price for a short sleeve shirt similar to the one I was wearing. The quality of the linen on the shelve was identical with mine and the seamstress quoted the price of US 19 dollars @ RM 60.00 per shirt.
The linen shirt I was wearing cost me RM 240.00 per shirt in Alor Setar. Without hesitating I ordered 2 pieces of short sleeve linen shirt which the seamstress promised to be ready in 24 hours time. True to her words, when I went to the shop at 12.30 pm the next day, my two linen shirts were ready for delivery. My adviser, Shiwar did not even order any suit from the 24 Tailor shop. .
My Sang Tailor which was 5 shop lots to the left of our hotel
My Sang Tailor specializes in custom suit and also pakaian traditional Melayu
The displayed price of US 95 per suit
The seamstresses in the shop do the measurement and cutting and then
outsource them for sowing
The seamstress, Miss Nancy sending the cut clothes to the outsourced
contract tailor.
Miss Nancy with my linen shirt ready to be worn in 24 hours
Miss Nancy ordered for me a young coconut which cost only 2,000 dong @ RM 0.32 per fruit .
Ezman bought by himself a similar coconut from the same vendor with a cost of 4,000 dong @ RM 0.64
salam..ada email address jason the tailor at mysang ker?
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