PESHAWAR
As nearly eight days left in Eidul Fitre celebrations, the male and female tailors have started overcharging people by earning almost double profit than normal days that irked customers.
In Peshawar, the tailors are heavily charging customers demanding Rs1,500 to Rs2,000 per suit for stitching these days, unnerving Peshawarities.
Most of citizens have expressed dissatisfaction on overcharging and quality of stitching clothes by tailors and asked the concerned administration to maintain checks and balances over the market rates.
Many tailors claimed that they had received approximately double orders on this Eid comparatively from normal days as customers were pressing for new booking despite our refusal.
To fulfill the placed and new orders, most of tailors have hired extra labourers by working till late night in local markets at Faqirabad, Qissa Khwani, Karimpura and Interior City.
These days, tailoring shops are being seen overcrowded with customers after substantial decrease in the cases of coronavirus.
Majority of middle and salaried class are being seen at readymade cloth shops after increase of tailors charges to buy appropriate suits for their loved ones.
Yasir Khan, a tailor in Faqirabad told APP that his business was shined on the arrival of Eid. He said this was the right time we make some profit compared to other months in the wake of increase in price hike in Peshawar.
He made it clear that charges for suits stitching were almost double because of workload of the customers, increase of electricity charges, shops’ rents, labour wages, relevant materials and we have to put in extra effort to fulfill people orders by using generators in case of loading shedding.
“I have visited several tailor shops but was unable to find anyone quality tailor ready to take my order for Eid,” said a customer Khayam Khan, a resident of Nowshera.
He said he would prefer readymade white Shalwar suit for this Eid keeping in view of high charges of the tailors.
A online tailoring social media platform said that online service has been popular with female customers and we will continue to serve our people during Ramazan.
He said we were working round the clock to meet placed orders as quickly as possible ahead of Eid.
Another women customer, Nishat Bibi said that tailors with own sweet will have increased stitching charges by upto Rs 200 to 500 for a single suit in Peshawar that needed to be checked.
She said stitching prices of tailors needs to be regulated.
Majority quality lady tailors have displayed their notices outside their shops inscribing that ‘booking is closed’ adding well off families were forced to pay double charges to stitch their suits from their favourite tailors.
