a formal outfit for within 10,000 pkr?

Mabrook · July 29, 2012, 7:26pm

Re: a formal outfit for within 10,000 pkr?

With due apology, I don’t know how some of you have this wrong conception about us keeping lot of margin in the dresses. I strongly disagree. To create a decent looking dress, you require good quality fabric (if not pure), kaam should be from good karigar + with all pure /high quality material (there r 2 types of kaam hand and machine work with hand touching on it ) . Good Stitching with all the minor detailing like neatness/pipn/applique work etc hand stitched dupatta/turpai, and not to forget the dying Cost, Extra fabric for finishing n pipn or lace or brooches or motifs etc.

Cost of Good quality Fabric. 4 piece suit (Almost all the suits are 4 piece),
Charges of Good kaam / Karigar
Charges of a Good Taylor (nowadays even for stitching lawn suits charge no less than 2500 to 3000 or just for shirt 1500 n up depending upon the style (the more style/neatness extra work the more the charges !

Don’t forget our creativity/ hard work/efforts involved for creating a designer outfit, deserves to add to charges a little more. Despite saving you from all the stress of visiting various markets in search of right/good quality fabric, then going to dyer and making sure to get the right shade after many trips it finally gets to the taylor for cutting panels n sleeves, after that taking the cuttings back to kaam wala for kaam, even for kaam we need to make several trips just to ensure the quality of kaam. Then taking it back to the taylor for stitching. In order to have them stitch the right size and design again it requires a few more trips to the taylor. Dont forget if God forbids something goes wrong that too is very common as they often do not follow the instruction and make mistakes, meeting deadlines with all constraints is a lot of work. Even after all that hastle bastle if something goes wrong we are the one who takes all losses. All these trips cost fuel and other charges, and many other misc charges. After all the expense and stressful efforts, what we most of the time get at the end hardly justifies the effort and hard work we put in creating these dresses. Not to forget about 5 to 6 hours of our time on a daily basis just in maintaining our fb page/Email Account/GS for replying to every single query/email on a regular basis. It all takes a lot of effort.

I wonder how anyone can complain after all their stress and efforts been transferred to us and their dresses been practically delivered to their door steps. I do understand someone complaining if they didn’t get anything even close to what they wanted. I believe just by saying that we are taking too much profit is totally not justified you your behalf. I strongly suggest to pls go out and check the market out and please be current on the prices of stitching, material/ and kaam now a days. Many of the dresses in designers outlets are mostly made of regular material, have very light or sometimes clumsy kaam, and have regular stitching and almost all of those dresses are 2 or one pieces, still they are being sold for prices almost double than what we offer … and I am not talking about the high end designers, these are regular designers. Despite our best possible material, kaam, and best stitching that we can provide, we are offering 4 piece suits for half the price. Trust me prices of everything in Pakistan have gone sky high. Please give some credit to these hardworking professionals who are putting a lot of effort in a very unrewarding business.

Thanks

Sorry if i unintentionally hurt u.