"Who will sew clothes if there are two loaves of bread?"

"Who will sew clothes if there are two loaves of bread?"

"Brother, take my 2 suits and this matching lace with you."
Baji 2 will not be able to, I will try to give one until the moon night. I stopped booking clothes a week ago but you are an old customer so I am full.

This interesting repetition, insistence and denial used to be a common sight in every street corner tailor shop in Ramadan, but the Corona virus has locked up tailor shops along with other artisans.

There is nothing wrong with including tailors in the most affected category due to the lockdown in Ramadan. Despite the popularity of sewn clothes, Ramadan is the time of year when the tailor becomes the most important person.

Tailor shops are open all night after the 15th fast. The tailors then cut the stockpile of clothes and give them to their deputy tailors, who leaned on the machines to mold them into beautiful and freshly designed pairs. But today, tailor shops are also deserted due to the Corona virus epidemic, and the class, which has been waiting for the Eid season all year round, is in dire straits.

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Atif, a resident of Shah Faisal Colony in Karachi, is associated with a ready-made clothes shop in a local shopping mall. Atif used to take home 30,000 rupees a month for sewing joints. Atif, who was living with his infant child, wife and mother, was doing well. Then Corona came and the malls closed and Atif was forced to stay at home.

Atif Taylor
"I am the sole breadwinner of my house," Atif said. The work has been stopped for 2 months, the women for whom I sew clothes are kind, they are helping something. But he questioned how long it would last. His business is small and closed at the moment so he is very upset and in trouble. I am living on loan from relatives, I have not been able to pay the rent and bill for 2 months. I am only paying rations and baby milk from the loan. It is not clear when the situation will improve and when our jobs will be restored. Corona and Lockdown have destroyed us.

The story of Taylor Kausar, a woman who runs a shop on Rashid Minhas Road in Karachi, is no different. "My husband is retired and I have three children, one of whom is mentally handicapped," Kausar said. There are 2 more tailors in the shop. The store has been closed for 2 months and the rent is going up. Now you have to pay the electricity bill and the above expenses are different. But the situation is not changing. You can imagine where people like us would stand now.

"It has become difficult to maintain the illusion of white supremacy in the face of prolonged unemployment," she said. Meals are also being arranged on credit. Relatives in the neighborhood were asked to sew clothes, but they were all in the same situation. 2 Who will sew clothes when the bread of time is gone? The month of Ramadan is also underway, and I wonder what will happen next. People like us already have a practical picture of what they will eat and what they will save, and the lockdown from above has added to the economic woes.

An important part of this big picture is the women who are forced to buy clothes online due to the closure of markets and malls. Tabassum, a resident of Gulshan-e-Iqbal in Karachi, is one such woman. When we asked him about the preparations for Eid, he said, "A decade of Ramadan has passed, but I still can't decide whether to order suits online or not because the tailor shops are closed." My tailor went to his hometown in Punjab at the very beginning of the lockdown and no tailor or tailor could be found. What is the use of online shopping if I can order clothes and keep them at home without sewing? However, nowadays the prices of clothes have come down by 50% and there is a great desire to buy clothes, but not only tailors, but what will I do with raw clothes?

Half the shutters of a shop are down
Asad, a young man who runs a tailor's shop in Nazimabad Chowrangi, said he was not opening the shop. "I was running this shop with two of my friends. There is cleanliness in hand, so customers were tied up and new ones came to see the work, but due to the closure of business in the lockdown, all our family members are also facing difficulties. I waited for 2 weeks but now 2 months have passed, the markets are not open and people are not shopping.

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Assad added: "Our work was already going badly. Six months ago, our friends had closed their shop in Hyderi Market because they were not able to pay the rent and electricity bill on time. Now the shop was running here, so now this is the situation. My house is in Pali and we live in a rented house. I had to do something to fill my stomach. So now I have been working in a factory for the last 2 weeks.

"Are people sewing clothes?" Assad said to our question. "Some old customers contacted me on the phone but I didn't take clothes from them because the shop is closed and the house is not big enough to install a machine here." Work should be started. In such a case, if the cloth is damaged, listen to four more things