The closer the Tet holiday is, the stronger the cash inflow and outflow are. While some families lamented the ups and downs due to crop failures, and salary cuts from the company… but had to shop, repair, and refurbish many things for the full Tet holiday, some people consider this to be a good time. the key point is “snapping silver”.
During the Tet season, many “seasonal” businesses appear, they seize the opportunity to sell gift baskets, Tet jam cakes, and red envelopes… and also have many jobs such as shoe repair, and clothing repair. … thought “disgraced” was a step “on the throne”.
Running along Le Thanh Ton street (District 1) and a part of Ly Chinh Thang (District 3), everyone is surprised because the times are different – surrounded by shoemakers and sewing machine tables. going in and out, but the clothes and shoes waiting to be repaired were also piled up.
TIME TO REPAIR “TO THE ROLE”
The story of repairing, refurbishing and renewing everything from houses, kitchens… to personal things such as clothes, hair, shoes… is one of the many customs of the Vietnamese New Year. Therefore, the demand for repairing clothes and shoes at the end of the year obviously increases.
On normal days, if this pair of shoes is damaged, they will wear another pair, if these clothes is faulty, there will be a dozen other items to wear, it’s a pity to throw it away, so at the end of the year, clean and repair the house. time. Part of the sudden increase in orders is due to the mentality of having to complete everything before Tet, a neat house to welcome a favorable year, partly because the new year is the time to dress up, because you have to meet many people, have many opportunities to go out, so clothes and shoes also need to be a little more neat.
The customer has repaired more than 5 items this Tet holiday
Ms. Trung Oanh, a customer waiting for her turn to receive shoes: “I know it takes a long time to fix things these days, but I have to accept it. The reason is that there is no opportunity to wear these items during the year, so there’s no need to rush to repair it, so when Tet comes, you need to dress up and visit your relatives’ house.
Sometimes I’m also afraid because it’s too crowded that I won’t be able to fix my things properly, and the price will be slightly higher than usual, but let’s just fix it, or do something lighter to be ready to welcome the new year.”
Ms. Thanh Tuyen shared: “This year is also not rich, so my husband’s and I don’t buy much new clothes, shoes, take old things to refurbish and repair a little, they are like new. Continue to save money and at the same time save the house, because I always leave a pile there.”
SHOE REPAIR CARD MAKES MONEY BECAUSE OF THE HUGE NUMBER OF ORDER AND QUALITY ALL BRANDS
Le Thanh Ton street is inherently bustling because the top is Nguyen Hue pedestrian street, the bottom is right at Ben Thanh market, but at the end of the year, it is even more bustling because of the presence of a large number of guests flocking to stand around the workers. street shoe repair sit here.
Uncle Van, the most famous shoe repairman and also the most crowded on Le Thanh Ton street, said: “I sit here fixing shoes at 8 am to 5:30 pm, but when I go home at night, I have to work until 11 pm. I will be three or four times busier than usual for Tet, because everyone needs shoes to go out for Tet. Shoes now can take a long time to dry, and the glue will come out on its own without needing to use much, so I want to wear it during Tet. Couples that have been left for a long time will have to be repaired.
Here, regardless of New Year’s Day or any other day, every shoe will be repaired, damaged in many ways, wide and tight, worn to replace soles, open glue…depending on how difficult or easy it is. So the repair work is sometimes 30,000 VND, sometimes 500,000 VND – 600,000 VND…”.($1=24,000 VND)
Uncle Van – the most crowded shoe repairman Le Thanh Ton – the “convergence” of many “street” shoemakers
Asked a shoe repairman who was sitting a bit away from Uncle Van, about how many guests were there in the last days of the year, he said: “I can’t count how many pairs I receive a day to repair, because the number is very large, people come to send them. with the person who took the repaired shoes alternately, probably about 200 pairs …”.
The estimated remuneration for the repair price multiplied by the number of orders per day does not stop there, not to mention VIP orders from branded shoes, guests from expensive cars.
Particularly at Uncle Van’s shoe repair place, standing for less than 10 minutes, 3 cars stopped by, lowered their glasses, gave shoes, exchanged and left in less than a minute. Everyone seems to know each other very well, apparently, the super-rich are also regular customers of these “street shoe repairmen”, and every day near Tet, the number of trust applications sent to them is also not small. But everyone knows, the price of the pair of Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel … has the price like, the cost of meticulous repair must also be commensurate.
Many customers of the super rich come to repair Tet shoes
EVERY DAY HUNDREDS OF CLOTHING CLOTHING CLOTHERS, AVERAGE TENS OF MILLIONS OF VND
The owner of a garment repair shop Cuong said: “Usually, customers will be crowded in the late afternoon to evening, and the most crowded is when people get off work. At this time near this New Year, customers come to my shop all the time. clothes, the number of customers is about 200 people, twice as much as usual. I usually get a lot of jeans, dresses, jackets and vests.”
The owner of a garment repair shop Cuong said that although it is not as good as previous years, on these occasions more than a hundred customers come to fix their clothes every day.
The number of things waiting to be repaired is extremely thick
Uncle Hung at a tailor shop on Ly Chinh Thang street shared: “In the afternoon from about 10 am to 11:30 am, and in the afternoon, about 4 pm to 7 pm is the most crowded. This period is 100% of the time. Accepting customers to repair, the cost is unlimited, from about 40,000 VND – 50,000 VND to several million a person, depending on where it needs to be repaired, difficult or easy, the number of items brought more or less … labor to For the shop, there are about a dozen workers.”
It is estimated that for each clothing repair order with the lowest repair price of 50,000 VND, the minimum income a day must also be 10 million, not to mention there are repair orders 10 times, 20 times the price of 50,000 VND and of course ” wages” is even thicker.
Uncle Hung shared about 1 month ago that he received 100% as a customer to fix clothes at the shop
About twenty days before the New Year’s eve, there are a number of newly opened business items that have just started to have customers, some new income earners are flooded with customers, and the job of repairing clothes and shoes is one of them. there. Looking at the current Tet, no one is worried about shoemakers sitting in the sun and rain in the middle of the street, but also relieved when the garment industry is less and less popular in the current fast fashion trend.
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