After all, the clothing market circulates very slowly. Clothes that were popular in the port city in 1979 were still considered avant-garde in Deyang in 1984.
Can these clothes be resold?
Some clothes have a small amount of inventory. That's how factories ship goods; they can't sell all the stock at once. Otherwise, there wouldn't be the term "clothing overstock." If there's enough fabric, they can reorder. Even the buck-toothed bearded man is willing to reorder for Chu Yu.
Even though there's not much work in the factory during the off-season, they still have to pay the workers' wages. Starting the machines costs money. Chu Yu buys a lot of goods, and Bucktooth Hu is willing to cooperate with her. Even if he sells her leftover stock at a low price, he still makes a profit.
Shulan was speechless with amazement. She thought her ideas were unique and her clothing was fashionable enough.
I only realized what a country bumpkin is after coming to Guangzhou.
Guangzhou's fashion trends are at least ten years ahead of Deyang's. No wonder everyone comes to Guangzhou to buy goods. It's simply a tailor's paradise. The fabrics and styles that we've never seen before inspire Shulan.
Chu Yu kept looking at the styles and touching the fabrics. Once she had chosen a style, she would tell Boss Hu, and Boss Hu's men would write down the item number and quantity.
Suddenly, Chu Yu stopped in front of a piece of underwear. In 1984, underwear in the port city evolved from camisole style to three-piece style, with more colors, fabrics and styles.
Bucktooth Hu's underwear comes in three colors: white, black, and gray. It is a half-up vest style, but it also incorporates the shape of underwear from later generations.
Mandarin has never sold bras, yet their bras are priced as high as real estate, taking up little space and fetching high prices.
She tried on the fabric and found it quite soft, yet with good support, so she took 20 pieces of each to test the waters.
Chu Yu selected more than 30 old styles. Boss Hu asked someone to go to the warehouse to check the stock. If there was stock, they would take the goods directly. If there was no stock, they would reorder. More than 20 new styles were selected in succession. Mandarin has high requirements for the styles, and Boss Hu's styles were not enough.
"Mr. Zhou, please do me the honor of hosting you two sisters tonight."
Chu Yu didn't refuse. She wanted to do fabric business, and she could benefit greatly from talking to Boss Hu about fabrics.
The clothing merchants in Suicheng are all incredibly shrewd. Chu Yu kept asking about fabrics, so Boss Hu suspected that she wanted to start a fabric business. Chu Yu didn't mention that she wanted to open a custom fabric shop.
"You want to open a chain of clothing stores?"
Of course, Mr. Hu knew what a chain store was. When foreign clothing stores opened branches in the port city, they sold the same clothes, hired employees to manage them, and the headquarters would send people to inspect them every now and then.
A well-run clothing store can open hundreds of branches worldwide; that's what's called a chain.
But Hong Kong is Hong Kong, and the mainland is the mainland. In 1984, there was no such thing as a clothing chain store in the mainland.
Chu Yu just opened a small shop, and she already wants to open a chain? No wonder she keeps asking about fabrics.
“Mr. Hu, even if I open a chain of stores, I still need garment processing factories. We can still continue to cooperate.”
It's better to have one more friend than one more enemy.
Chu Yu's steps were big and her ideas were ahead of their time. Boss Hu felt inferior and realized that this girl's ambition should not be underestimated.
Ambition is a double-edged sword; misused, it can lead to bankruptcy; used well, it can bring fame and fortune. Boss Hu believed Chu Yu was the latter. She was so young, yet she possessed such courage. How could Boss Hu dare say anything else? Of course, they would continue their cooperation. Even if they couldn't cooperate on clothing, they could cooperate on other things.
Mr. Hu wouldn't mind doing her a favor.
“I have a friend who sells fabrics at the fabric market. He has a lot of imported fabrics, from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas, and the prices are cheap.”
The risk of smuggled fabrics is lower than that of smuggled home appliances. The authorities focus their efforts on inspecting electrical appliances and automobiles, and don't regulate fabrics much. The smuggling industry in Guangzhou is self-sufficient. Whether opening a chain store or doing something else, Chu Yu needs smuggled fabrics. Boss Hu is a timely help.
With someone acting as a bridge, things become much easier.
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