Chapter 216 The Tailor Makes Clothes for Qi Jingchuan

The sales clerk clicked her tongue: "Shanghai is a big city, how can our Blue City compare? We certainly wouldn't dare to try and outdo them in terms of clothing styles."

Seeing that Cen Yan was interested in these styles, the saleswoman didn't say anything, but she wanted to be on good terms with Cen Yan and do her a favor.

"If you want to buy styles from Shanghai, you can go to a trendy tailor shop, show them a photo or design, and have it made. But it's not cheap, about the same price as our department stores, and they don't offer returns..."

The sales clerk's words made Cen Yan's eyes light up.

Yes! If the department store doesn't have suitable clothes, she can ask a tailor to make them.

She had many fashionable clothing styles she had seen in Hong Kong in later generations. If she drew them down and had a tailor make them, she might be able to make a small profit.

These days, the demand for all kinds of goods is huge, so buying and selling is sure to make money.

Otherwise, knowing that speculation and profiteering will only lead to losses, why do so many people still secretly engage in this kind of business like a swarm of locusts crossing a river? To put it bluntly, it's because it's profitable!

The bracelet her grandparents left her has a space inside, which is her greatest asset. She can finish the product, take it back, and sell it through Tianqi without having to show her face.

Let's do it!

"Comrade, do you know where there's a tailor shop around here? I want to make two smart and neat outfits for my wife."

“Go out of our department store, walk straight to the left, turn a corner, and there are tailors in the alley.”

"Thanks."

"You're too kind. If you need anything in the future, just come to the department store and find me. I'll be available anytime."

She sold over 190 yuan worth of clothes, and this month she'll earn eight or nine yuan in commission alone. She'd practically worship Cen Yan, this little rich girl, and offer her incense.

These days, tailors either run a business or have the skill and are proficient in it, helping their neighbors with sewing and mending, making small trinkets, and then exchanging them for food, small items, and the like.

So before coming, Cen Yan took a few extra cloth coupons and grain coupons from her space. Aside from the amount needed for making clothes, the rest could be used to offset wages and barter for goods.

The tailor Cen Yan found was a woman around fifty years old, who looked like an experienced old tailor.

Before coming, Cen Yan had drawn the design of the clothes she wanted to make on her social media. Although the design was not professionally drawn, the old tailor could tell the structure and style at a glance.

She had never made this style of trench coat before, especially the other design, which was a down jacket filled with duck down—she had never even heard of it, so she rejected it outright.

The old tailor's daughter, however, was very interested in Cen Yan's design. "Comrade, your design is very novel. I'd like to try it out, but if I don't do it well, I'll only refund half of the fabric ration coupons you gave me. Is that alright?" she said. "Your design looks simple, but my daughter and I have never made anything like this before. We can only make it based on our intuition."

Cen Yan doesn't lack those fabric ration coupons. If she can make trench coats and down jackets, she can make a lot of money with these two types of winter clothing. Every new product development requires investment, so what are a few feet of fabric ration coupons?

“No problem. If it works out, we can talk about what happens next.” Cen Yan smiled at the girl named Dai Duo in front of her. She was much more decisive than the old tailor, Aunt Dai.

What she wants to do is not just a few pieces of clothing, and she really needs someone like Dai Duo who dares to think and act to partner with her.