Designers and Negative Criticism

[shk_14]

@prototype

I am confused. You have a first hand experience with LOOKING at ‘low quality’ outfits at local shops and you are generalizing your experience (which I doubt you have any yet - atleast here) with any home-based designer on this forum ? wow ! And without seeing any of the products in person, just based on the rate-list you know of from your last visit to pakistan atleast 5 yrs back, you cannot say anyone is keeping their cost low and margins high. no one is ignorant of all the prices and fabric quality to keep on paying for rubbish and neither is anyone insisting the customers to buy their stuff in any case.

It is so funny that you think that karigars are charging a ‘pittance’ here. For any business of this type, people have two options: either hiring a place and making karigars do all the embroidery,etc there, paying them on monthly basis,even if the karigars make one or ten outfit per month (not to mention their smoking,residing,mess and other expenditures PLUS providing them with every single thread and tools that will be used for the embellish work,etc AND uninformed absence for days because someone in their family died for 15th time and other numerous excuses they can make and you can do nothing about them ) OR paying the karigars per piece basis (like I and many other home based designers do) and paying them whatever they want.

anyways, there is no point in explaining anything unless it is made clear whether it is homebased designers or big shot designers or the local boutiques you are talking about:)

:k: good reply proto.
people just come out of bed and say any thing they want thats all i wana say…