Ji Xia glanced back and tugged at Jiang Qingci's hand: "Your brother Xie is here too, he's over there!"
Jiang Qingci looked back at the few people on the side of the street, then at the shop, somewhat undecided.
Rong Ruoshi and Liu Yujuan couldn't take their eyes off the wedding dresses displayed in the shop window. They were so beautiful, some were bright red, some were gold, and some were embroidered with colorful phoenixes or various auspicious patterns.
"Are these all wedding dresses you designed? I'd like to go inside and take a look."
"Didn't you see what's going on inside? It's incredibly busy, you can't even squeeze in. Let's try again when it's less crowded!"
The store was almost overflowing with people, and several girls were gathered around each wedding dress on display, commenting and discussing it.
The shop, which is over 100 square meters, seems quite spacious, but once the shelves and mannequins are placed there, it feels crowded.
Zhongqing Clothing is the first store to specialize in home textiles and formal wear. The styles are novel, exquisite and beautiful, and the store decoration is noble and elegant. The delicate crystal lights projected onto the beautiful dresses, which made the wedding dresses even more beautiful.
In addition, with customers traveling and relaxing everywhere during the New Year's Day holiday, they flocked into the cramped space after seeing the beautiful wedding dresses displayed in the window, making the store extremely crowded.
Eight trained sales clerks were busy explaining the meanings of various embroideries and patterns to customers in the store, while skillfully packing the items that customers liked into pretty bags.
Jiang Qingci and the others wanted to squeeze into the store to learn more, but seeing the crowded customers inside, they backed down.
Ji Xia returned to Chen Jing's side: "You've been keeping watch here the whole time? How was it?"
Xie Xun gave her a thumbs up: "You can tell from this that it's very popular. I heard that you designed all these wedding dresses yourself, is that right? You're amazing."
Chen Jing put his arm around her shoulder and whispered, "Since ten o'clock this morning, there have been a lot of guests inside. I'm worried that we won't have enough dresses and beds!"
The three young men turned around suspiciously: "How much stock have you prepared? Are you worried it won't be enough?"
Chen Jing couldn't help but smile wryly upon hearing this: "We prepared the wedding dresses two months in advance, but there were only a little over three hundred sets. Among them, less than one hundred were formal dresses made of silk and heavily embroidered, and more than one hundred were for the bed. Half of them were for everyday use, and the other half were for the wedding."
From morning until now, he noticed that embroidered bedding and wedding dresses with a bridal theme were selling the best. Two styles had already been taken off the mannequins, meaning that the stock of those two styles was sold out.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yizhi couldn't help but ask curiously, "These wedding dresses are popular, just look at my sister and her friends. In the past month or two, how many friends has she brought to order from you? Why don't you prepare more?"
Ji Xia sighed: "Young Master Jiang, this kind of preparation can't be solved with just a few words. You know, whether it's the wedding-style quilt covers and sheets or the embroidered kimono, the embroidery on them is all done by hand. This kind of work can't be rushed even if you want to."
Embroidered wedding dresses need to be made quickly, at least until computer embroidery technology is available. But when will computer embroidery become widespread? At least twenty years from now, right?
Jiang Yizhi opened her mouth, but for a moment she didn't know what to say.
Liu Yujuan stared at her in surprise: "Your employees can even do embroidery?"
Fashion design also includes embroidery courses. Design students need to know a little about drawing, cutting, embroidery, and various accessories.
However, apart from specializing in one area, most design students only have a superficial understanding. Liu Yujuan and Ji Xia only enrolled this year, and the school hasn't scheduled this course yet.
Ji Xia shrugged: "Our country has four famous traditional embroidery styles. In the past, embroidery was a skill that young ladies from well-to-do families had to learn. It's not surprising that some of our employees know it."
Rong Ruoshi shook her head suspiciously: "That's true, but many traditional crafts have been lost over the past few decades."
"Yes, but I asked my second brother to find several girls in the Jiangnan area who know how to embroider. However, there are indeed very few girls like that now."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Qingci suddenly said, "You want to hire embroidery workers? Do you want to hire an embroidery master? I know there is a family in my hometown that knows embroidery, but she is too old. She is more suited to teaching than to embroider herself."
Upon hearing this, Ji Xia's eyes lit up: "Really? You know someone like that? Is she in your hometown? Could you help me invite her to the capital?"
Xie An patted Chen Jing on the shoulder, gesturing for him to follow him to the side: "You also have a shop on Xiushui Street, right? What are you planning to do with it?"
"In the women's clothing business, this shop specializes in home textiles and wedding gifts, while the other shops specialize in branded women's clothing. We plan to create a high-end brand specifically designed for high-quality women in big cities."
Xie An couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "You guys are awesome, you have a lot of ideas. But, can your workshop keep up with the production capacity?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Jing couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile; production capacity truly couldn't keep up.
The production of winter clothing in autumn and winter is naturally much slower than that of summer clothing.
The number of vendors coming to their door for wholesale has more than doubled compared to when they first started, and now they also have to supply their own three stores, so their production capacity really can't keep up.
However, Song Wu was following up on the factory in the south. When he contacted him by phone a few days ago, he told him that the factory and dormitory would be completed in at most half a month. At that time, a large number of workers would be recruited, and a wave of production should be able to be achieved before the end of the year.
This time, the orders for Xiu kimonos will definitely be produced by the southern branch factory. In addition, children's clothing should also begin to be produced.
He shook his head and chuckled softly, "The production capacity is uncertain for the time being. We've already discussed it, and there will only be one batch of wedding dresses before the Lunar New Year. After the Lunar New Year, the demand for wedding dresses will decrease significantly."
"We just opened today, and it's also New Year's Day, so it's not surprising that there are more customers. After the first three days of opening, we'll resume normal business and the demand should be met."
Xie An stared at the shop intently for a while: "Chen Jing, are you interested in expanding production? Now that private ownership is allowed, your workshop is too small. If we expand and set up a garment factory, it would definitely be great."
Upon hearing about the expansion of the factory, Xie Xun and Jiang Yizhi also joined in with interest: "Brother Jing, are you expanding? Can we join in? If the four of us pool our money, it will be much easier to manage the finances."
Upon hearing this, Chen Jing and Ji Xia exchanged glances, secretly smiling bitterly.
In fact, even if the southern side invested 80,000 yuan, they could afford to build a branch factory near Beijing.
In the four months since they arrived in Beijing, their workshop, though small in number, has been able to earn an average of 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a month.
However, since this young nobleman from the capital wanted to get involved, Chen Jing couldn't refuse even if he wanted to.
If they refuse, they will offend people, and their development in the capital will likely be severely hampered.
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