Options are always open to us, to choose from a ready made item or, to order to make as per our requirements, and when it fits into the description what we intend to have, then we say it's been 'tailor made' for us.
Presuming that any tailor made item just falls as it has to be. And mares the ill effect of a ready to use product/service which comes with its own inbuilt features and limitations.
Tailor made courses, tailor made parents, tailor made couples, tailor menu, and even tailor made kids who just meet the requirements and aspirations of parents,sleep when wanted,eat what's given, study what's told and choose what's offered.Well let me confine my thought process to sheer tailoring of dresses alone as topic of dicussion..
Presuming that any tailor made item just falls as it has to be. And mares the ill effect of a ready to use product/service which comes with its own inbuilt features and limitations.
Tailor made courses, tailor made parents, tailor made couples, tailor menu, and even tailor made kids who just meet the requirements and aspirations of parents,sleep when wanted,eat what's given, study what's told and choose what's offered.Well let me confine my thought process to sheer tailoring of dresses alone as topic of dicussion..
Tailor made goods had/have its own credits,adding value that does not come with ready made goods. We have the option to choose a particular variety, color, fabric and in addition gives us the liberty to fit into our budget, Because to have a ready made dress means affordability ,defined by brands and that we fall under a clan of rich people who are destined for it.
My memory of tailor made dresses goes back to my younger days when Appa and Amma would venture into efforts to make our outfits using a Singer sewing machine at home. Neither of them had any intro into tailoring, cutting and stitching. But it was simple economics that they preferred to labor on this, to save on few rupees spent, if out sourced and of course to minimize on the material wastage that is way too much if given to a tailor.
Amma used to make three frocks out of the same material what the tailor would say is insufficient for even one.They would have laces and frills at appropriate places, which a tailor could never perceive and make. While this was the happy note there were also instances where Appa and Amma would quarrel on the apathetic outcome of certain attempts which would really be disastrous and abandon the process of stitching half way.
Besides this, I have always seen Amma never being completely satisfied with a tailored blouse. It was either too big or too small with respect to the referral piece given. And we are still are at the mercy of the tailors and depend on them. If we are described as a 'style statement' the credit goes to him/her and if we are described as a 'oldie' than again the credit has to be passed over to a tailor. I often jocularly mention that it is ultimately his perception about how you should look. He/She either transforms you to the range of Bollywood divas or takes you to saint hood .
Very recently my daughter was a victim at the trial of a tailor who was supposed to make her formal suit. She was joined by a bunch of class mates of both gender who were now at the mercy of this chosen tailor.He claimed that he could deliver a few dozens of suits in a short time.And all youngsters had lined up
to give their individual measurements and trilled to have their first suit stitched.Each one had imagined themselves in their outfits and been waiting for the piece to be delivered with soaring level of expectations.
As usual she wanted to share her joy with me and with the help of technology at hand, she had sent me the first trial photo wearing it. As usual I made my first sarcastic comment that it looked like a ballooned outfit worn by our classical heroes like Dilip Kumar, MGR or Shivaji, when they were assigned roles of kings and princes.
It was really out of size and more a worry for her, who wanted to maintain her figure. Now the hassle of alterations started. Only my inbox was getting filled up with versions of altered suits. never the one with perfect fitting.To add up to her anxiety .I was told that the photo shoot with their suits on was arranged. And people had to come up with different poses and gestures, some really trying to hold up their pants from slipping down, some to really hold back their breaths to avoid bulging down and many adopted strange postures and accessories to cover up the ill fits.And many of them are planning to redo this job with a different tailor. This is when I just got the clarity on two terms used by us very often, 'skill' and 'passion'.The tailor in this case possessed the skill to stitch and produce output in time, but lacked the passion to perceive how it should fit in. Especially when he had to do it for both men and woman who differ in physical structure.
Amma never had any skill of tailoring but she could produce such wonderful outfits because she could perceive each outfit with her imagination of the child and her passion to see them dresses properly brought excellent results . So can we conclude that great work doesn't turn mean excellent skills alone ,but it has to be done passionately. If baking is the skill, passion is the icing what makes the cake yummy and instills the stimulus to eat.
My memory of tailor made dresses goes back to my younger days when Appa and Amma would venture into efforts to make our outfits using a Singer sewing machine at home. Neither of them had any intro into tailoring, cutting and stitching. But it was simple economics that they preferred to labor on this, to save on few rupees spent, if out sourced and of course to minimize on the material wastage that is way too much if given to a tailor.
Amma used to make three frocks out of the same material what the tailor would say is insufficient for even one.They would have laces and frills at appropriate places, which a tailor could never perceive and make. While this was the happy note there were also instances where Appa and Amma would quarrel on the apathetic outcome of certain attempts which would really be disastrous and abandon the process of stitching half way.
Besides this, I have always seen Amma never being completely satisfied with a tailored blouse. It was either too big or too small with respect to the referral piece given. And we are still are at the mercy of the tailors and depend on them. If we are described as a 'style statement' the credit goes to him/her and if we are described as a 'oldie' than again the credit has to be passed over to a tailor. I often jocularly mention that it is ultimately his perception about how you should look. He/She either transforms you to the range of Bollywood divas or takes you to saint hood .
Very recently my daughter was a victim at the trial of a tailor who was supposed to make her formal suit. She was joined by a bunch of class mates of both gender who were now at the mercy of this chosen tailor.He claimed that he could deliver a few dozens of suits in a short time.And all youngsters had lined up
to give their individual measurements and trilled to have their first suit stitched.Each one had imagined themselves in their outfits and been waiting for the piece to be delivered with soaring level of expectations.
As usual she wanted to share her joy with me and with the help of technology at hand, she had sent me the first trial photo wearing it. As usual I made my first sarcastic comment that it looked like a ballooned outfit worn by our classical heroes like Dilip Kumar, MGR or Shivaji, when they were assigned roles of kings and princes.
It was really out of size and more a worry for her, who wanted to maintain her figure. Now the hassle of alterations started. Only my inbox was getting filled up with versions of altered suits. never the one with perfect fitting.To add up to her anxiety .I was told that the photo shoot with their suits on was arranged. And people had to come up with different poses and gestures, some really trying to hold up their pants from slipping down, some to really hold back their breaths to avoid bulging down and many adopted strange postures and accessories to cover up the ill fits.And many of them are planning to redo this job with a different tailor. This is when I just got the clarity on two terms used by us very often, 'skill' and 'passion'.The tailor in this case possessed the skill to stitch and produce output in time, but lacked the passion to perceive how it should fit in. Especially when he had to do it for both men and woman who differ in physical structure.
Amma never had any skill of tailoring but she could produce such wonderful outfits because she could perceive each outfit with her imagination of the child and her passion to see them dresses properly brought excellent results . So can we conclude that great work doesn't turn mean excellent skills alone ,but it has to be done passionately. If baking is the skill, passion is the icing what makes the cake yummy and instills the stimulus to eat.
