source: Qilu Evening News
people's Mall door to the door of the weaving master. Article / film reporter Ye Jiali in the vicinity of the four road people's shopping mall, there are a group of women who make up clothes, their daily work is sitting on the street, helping people to mend clothes, while greeting new customers. From about nine a.m. to dark, they would not leave their booth. The sign on it is "professional darning, computer embroidery", plus their name "Zhu Shifu" and "fan master", which is their billboard. In the cold wind, the hand has been exposed outside. Zhu master is 42 years old. He has been weaving the clothes for 10 years at the front door of the people's market. Down jacket, cap, cotton shoes, gloves to reveal fingers, scarves and legs that cover their mouths, Zhu is wearing thick clothes. "It's not good to do anything for a long time." she said, "it's the worst in the middle of the year," she said. "It's a day in the middle of the year. Other stall owners are also heavily armed. Although each person has different equipment for cold protection, one of them is a glove which shows everyone's fingers. "To do what we do, we still need to rely on technology to eat, and if we do well in technology, repeat customers will be willing to come here to mend. It's cold and it's also used to us. " Master Zhu said. lunch time, some of them buy food on the side, some use warm boxes to bring food from home. If you go to the toilet, go to the civil air defense underground mall or the nearby shopping mall. Master Zhu said, "clothes are put here, and guests may come back at any time, so I basically do not move anywhere in the day to prevent guests from finding me." The best business in winter is to earn three thousand in a month. The price of weaving is the same, but everyone's handicraft is different, so the number of customers will be different. "Mend the sweater, 1 centimeters and 5 yuan, the high-end suit and down jacket are a little more expensive, 10 yuan per centimeter. Besides sewing clothes, they can also be cut and embroidered. Some clothes are not properly filled with needles, so they embroider a flower and cover them with 30 yuan. Embroidery is to find someone else to use computer cartography first, they stitch stitch again.
fan Shifu, who is hiding from the wind in the civil air defense mall, has been weaving for more than 10 years. She said, "business may be good or bad. Sometimes it's good luck and business is too busy." Money is stronger than a job. The better the business is, the more winter it will be. There are not many clothes in summer. In winter, sweaters, down coats and suits are more and more expensive than clothes in summer. If business is good, you can make 3000 dollars a month. Master Zhu is quite satisfied with her business, but she said that business has not been better in recent years. "It may also be a lot of work. Now many dry cleaning shops in the community can be darned. In the past, when it comes to darning, people think of people's shopping malls. Nowadays, people are not allowed to stop by driving. What's more, people's standard of living is high, and the number of people who mend is less and less. " There is a child in Zhu's family, who is reading a university. According to her introduction, the tuition fees for children's schooling are basically earned by her stitches. In an interview with both Armani and ordinary jeans journalists, Master Zhu was busy changing a Armani sweater with a price of 3700 yuan, and her job was to cut the sleeves of the sweater short. She said, "there are all kinds of mending clothes, the most expensive ones are more than 9000 yuan, and there are dozens of jeans with cheap ones. Some customers do not feel relieved to put their valuables here. "The customer who sent this sweater asked for a copy of my ID card and left my phone number. It's understandable that if I take my clothes away, after all, things are quite expensive. Master Zhu said.
Master Zhu said that the price of cutting the Armani is 30 yuan, which takes about two hours. She said, "it takes a lot of time to do this. It takes a long time to darn a piece of clothing, and there is no leisure time at all." At her feet, there were five or six bags of clothes.
Master Zhu said: "the stitch is all I work, just like someone else in the office, my office is here, I'm here every day, as long as the business is good, the cold weather doesn't matter."