Tailors passing busy time after schools, colleges reopen

With the reopening of schools and colleges, tailors across the country are busy sewing students’ uniforms.  

Many students and parents are rushing to the tailors for ordering new school and college uniforms.

Educational institutions reopened on September 12 after an 18-month closure.

According to the tailors of different parts of the capital, as old uniforms of around 60 per cent students are no longer wearable, they are coming up with fresh orders for new school dresses.

Due to the long closure of educational institutions, the students did not have to wear their uniforms, leaving most school dresses unfit to wear.

With the mounting pressure for making new dresses for students, tailors are struggling to maintain their clients’ schedule.

While talking to The Business Post, the owner of the Uniform Tailors at Rajarbagh, BM Azizul Islam, said, “As the demand for uniforms has notably increased, we are now getting more than 20 confirmed orders almost every day and now we are happy with our business.”

Tailors of different areas of the capital are charging at their own sweet will, with the price ranging from Tk 1,000 to Tk 2,000 for sewing a single dress.

Tailoring price varies from tailor to tailor on the basis of the quality of clothes as well as sewing. Sewing charges on the China and Thailand made clothes are much higher than the local ones, tailors said.

New Quality Tailors and Fabrics is another popular uniform tailor in the capital’s Kochukhet area. Its owner Mominul Islam said, “The reopening of educational institutions has brought good fortune for us with good profit. Now, the workload is higher than ever and I hired new employees to deliver the orders in time.”

“Normally, the peak season for student’s uniform tailoring is January when most of the students take admissions to their schools and colleges but this is the first-time in my career we are receiving such huge work orders in the middle of a year.”

“The uniform orders are mostly coming from the students of class 3 to class 9,” Mominul added.

However, most of the guardians are worried about buying new clothes and making new uniforms again.

Romana Haque, a guardian, said, “As this is the growing age of our children, it is quite impossible for them to wear their old school’s uniform after a long 18 months break.”

Her son is a seventh grader and had a physical growth spurt during the Covid-19 period. “That’s why, it is necessary for him to have a new school uniform but the tailoring price is a little higher than the last time,” she added.

Though some guardians are unhappy over the extra tailoring charges, they are also happy and excited as their children are going to schools after a long break.

The tailors said their business would be down for a while after this mad rush. A uniform lasts for a long time and it is not normally changed very often. But the profit that they are making now can also help them overcome any possible business losses in the days ahead.