Chapter 45: Testing
If possible, the owner of the tailor shop could lend her the sewing machine, which would save her a lot of trouble.
She also has to pay people. If, if this method works, then she doesn't need to buy a sewing machine.
You need a ticket to buy everything these days, especially something as expensive and in short supply as a sewing machine, which must be difficult to buy.
The two hundred yuan in her pocket now was not enough to buy a sewing machine.
If she remembered correctly, in her previous life, her grandmother had a sewing machine as a dowry. It was very old, probably forty or fifty years old. When she was chatting with her grandmother before, she had asked about the price of the sewing machine. Her grandmother said that this thing was very valuable in their era.
A sewing machine costs about three hundred yuan.
Thinking about the savings in her pocket, it was not enough. Besides, she couldn't get the tickets needed to buy a sewing machine. Even if she had money, the shopping mall would not sell it to her.
If she couldn't borrow a sewing machine, her business plan would be a complete failure.
What she thought of was clothing design. She drew the blueprints, selected the fabrics herself, and sold the clothes she made. If she didn't have a sewing machine, she would have been stuck at the first step.
After considering many issues, Jiang Xian decided to go to the tailor shop first and ask the boss if borrowing a sewing machine was feasible.
If possible, she still has time to go to the fabric market to choose fabric. Besides, her design draft has not been drawn yet, so it is too early to think about it now.
Jiang Xian's memory has always been very good, and she did not inherit her family's poor sense of direction.
Basically, she only needs to remember the path she has walked once to remember it.
The tailor shop was very clear about the directions, so she basically found it without much effort.
Jiang Xian was actually quite nervous in her heart. After all, she was a relatively introverted person in her previous life. This was the first time she had done such a thing.
In her previous life, if she wanted something, she would just buy it online and have it shipped to her home. Why would she need to go through so many roundabout ways and risk her face to borrow such expensive things from others?
It's because of poverty and financial constraints, so she had no choice but to give it a try.
When she arrived at the tailor shop, Jiang Xian was very conflicted. She wrote down countless drafts of what she wanted to say.
She thought of countless possibilities in her mind, wondering how she could convince the boss to lend her the sewing machine.
I even came up with several plans and several excuses, but in the end, I could only say one.
Jiang Xian bit his lip and walked into the tailor shop with gritted teeth.
As soon as she reached the door, she saw the scene inside the house.
Business in the tailor shop was very quiet, with basically no one there.
There was only one person, a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her forties, sitting in front of a sewing machine, holding a pair of trousers and modifying them.
I guess there must be a customer who came to have his trouser legs altered, so he put the trousers here, and the proprietress took them out to alter them when she had time.
Jiang Xian hesitated for a moment. Although there were no customers in the store at the moment, if she rashly went in, she would still disturb other people's work.
Jiang Xian stood at the door and waited for a while. She thought, why not wait until the other person was done with their work before speaking? This way, she wouldn't disturb them.
Unexpectedly, she made such a loud noise that the proprietress looked up and saw her directly.
Jiang Xian finally saw the proprietress's face. She looked very gentle. When she saw her coming, she thought she was a customer, so she asked her with a smile and a very gentle voice:
"Hello, are you here to have your clothes altered?"
After saying this, the proprietress looked at Jiang Xian carefully and thought to herself that this girl was really beautiful.
Glancing down, I found that she was not holding any packages in her hands, which showed that she was not here to have her clothes altered. After all, most people who came to her shop to have their clothes altered brought clothes with them.
She then asked hesitantly:
"I see you didn't bring any clothes with you. Are you here to order some clothes?"
Her tailor shop can not only modify the length of clothes, but also make custom clothes, which is a bit similar to an old-fashioned tailor shop.
Customers come and choose the style of clothing and the fabric. The proprietress measures the customer's size and makes the clothes. After the clothes are finished, the customer comes back to try them on.
It's a bit tailor-made.
Jiang Xian's mind went blank for a moment, and she gave the proprietress an embarrassed smile.
She thought that the proprietress looked quite nice and should be easy to talk to.
Jiang Xian was still quite afraid of failure. After all, there was only one tailor shop in this town. If the proprietress refused to lend her a sewing machine, it would be difficult for her to borrow another one.
Every household was very poor those days, especially in the villages. Basically, in the village where she went, there was no household that owned a sewing machine.
Although the boss lady has her own sewing machine, it is what she uses to make a living, so she probably won't lend it to anyone easily.
Jiang Xian decided to take a roundabout approach. She thought about it, combined with the questions the proprietress had just asked her, and looked down at herself and the clothes she was wearing.
Jiang Xian thought that the clothes the original owner was wearing were indeed a bit too worn out, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to take this opportunity to order a new set of clothes for himself.
She is a fashion designer, and when she thought of this, an idea instantly came to her mind.
It would be better for her to tell the boss lady that she wanted to have clothes custom-made, but she had to provide the drawings herself and see if the boss lady could make it. If she could, she could sell the clothes.
She has to first ask how much the processing fee for a piece of clothing is. If it is too expensive, she still doesn't have the means to do it. After all, when doing business, you have to calculate the cost.
If the cost is too high, she can't do business at a loss.
She doesn't have much money to begin with, so she has to spend it frugally.
Now it’s different from before. Everything has to be calculated. Once the money is spent, it’s really gone.
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