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In a promenade wherever shops woo visitors with spanking-new apparel stands a fertile outlier, a store that wears aged apparel similar a badge of honour. Chennai Stitcher, arsenic this store astatine the 2nd level of Spencers Plaza First Phase is called, is not astir selling pre-loved clothes, but making those aged apparel loved erstwhile again by the aforesaid owner.
A nonmigratory of Royapettah for astir 20 years. E. Umapathy has positioned Chennai Stitcher arsenic a specializer successful aged cloth alteration work. The 47-year-old tailor has not sealed the seam connected caller apparel though; helium readily stitches caller apparel for radical bringing that benignant of enactment to him. But alteration of aged apparel is his staple service, aged apparel for women, men and children coming wrong its ambit.
Umapathy established this shop, which operates wrong a store selling caller apparel astir a twelvemonth ago. Those visiting the apparel showrooms successful the promenade larn astir his services and bring their aged apparel the adjacent clip they are astatine the mall.
In his erstwhile avatars, Umapathy had been a maestro tailor for 10 years astatine an apparel large and worked successful the Cable TV manufacture for 7 years.
During the pandemic, helium had been down connected his luck, being retired of employment, and that adversity sowed successful his caput the thought of independency and comparative certainty that tin deduce from being one’s ain boss.
Umapathy lists among his USPs tenable pricing, wide repertoire and doorway delivery.
“My basal alteration terms is ₹60 and the terms increases from determination lone connected the ground of the complexity of the alteration work. I undertake alteration enactment that astir tailors baulk at. For example, erstwhile it comes to altering jeans pants, astir tailors would undertake alteration that requires them to marque those pants tighter, and cull enactment that requires jeans pants to beryllium made looser. I judge some forms of work. Within a 10-kilometre radius, I connection doorway transportation if the outgo for the alteration enactment comes up to ₹500. I present the apparel by a motorcycle successful the precocious evening hours.”
Umapathy’s regular expenditure includes paying for the acquisition of 2 college-going children. Asked if helium manages to conscionable his expenses without difficulty, helium says, “I negociate but with difficulty.”
P. Goutham Chand, a regular lawsuit astatine Chennai Stitcher, says Umapathy ne'er says “no” to immoderate apparel that are brought to him for alteration. Among the apparel that Goutham has got altered by Umapathy is an aged coat. Goutham notes that among factors enhancing lawsuit acquisition is the accelerated transportation ensured by Umapathy.
Umapathy tin beryllium contacted astatine 9884541415
Report by R. Ragu
