009 [Insatiable Greed]
No. 23, Yongtai Road, Chai Wan---
"Xingmin Foreign Clothing Store"---
Su Dingxian stood in front of the store and looked up at the signboard.
Obviously, this is not a department store, but a tailor shop with customized suits and clothing.
In fact, from the early 1950s to the late 1960s, basically all suits and clothing were customized in private. The reason is that the prices are low and the styles are novel. Often, private customized suits are more comfortable and more elegant than those bought in department stores.
Why is this?
Because from Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places, many famous tailors went to Hong Kong.
After these people came to Hong Kong, they took root. With their superb tailoring skills, they first made private customizations for wealthy tycoons and rich people; then they became famous and expanded the market, and began to customize clothes for the middle class and the newly emerging social elites.
In this way, these hard-working and skilled veterans quickly forced the department stores to remove wholesale suits and reduce their scale. These private custom tailoring stores rose and quickly occupied the dress market in Hong Kong.
Su Dingxian walked into the tailor shop and found that it was a noisy inside. After a closer look, it was a man in his thirties who was taking his clothes and requesting a return, but the master of the tailor shop refused to return it.
The man had a national face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a very good figure, and was ridged and angular. After that, he became the legendary "stylish man".
But at this moment, the "stylish man" had a bad beard and looked depressed, as if he had encountered something difficult and needed money in urgent need of money, so he wanted to return the dress he had made this week ago.
The old tailor was helpless. After receiving the deposit, the clothes were made, but they could not be returned. After all, the clothes in his store were customized according to the customer's size - each person has one size. If you return the goods, will the finished dress be sold to the side?
Seeing that the two of them became more and more fierce, the young lady who looked like a receptionist next to her was so scared that she didn't dare to say anything.
Su Dingxian patrolled the store with his hands behind his back, and the young lady then made an appointment to come up, her eyes flashing. Although she was a little surprised by Su Dingxian's bitter outfit, she still asked Su Dingxian what she needed with her professional ethics.
Su Dingxian said that he wanted to buy a suit, and then added that the style and texture would be better.
The female receptionist was surprised again and couldn't help but look at Su Dingxian again. However, she had some knowledge and knew that people should not behave like appearance, so she asked Su Dingxian more enthusiastically what style and fabric she needed.
Su Dingxian smiled slightly, then said with his hands behind his back: "You introduce it first!"
The female receptionist was obviously very skilled in business, so she recommended several excellent fabrics to Su Dingxian, and then took out the "dressing album" himself and told him what styles were popular recently.
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The old tailor next to him quarreled even harder with the man with a national face.
"Anyway, this dress cannot be returned! Ala has opened a store in Shanghai for many years and has been in Hong Kong for about ten years. It is a well-known store. It has always been returned only if there are quality problems. If you are like you, you will never return it!" The old tailor said with confidence with his waist.
The man with a national face hummed with a nose, "Uncle, I respect you and call you Uncle. If you don't respect you, I will call you a ghost! Now I will tell you good things and return the deposit to me, otherwise I will let you go with me in the end!"
"What, scare me? I don't care who you are! Even if you are the king of heaven, I will not retreat!"
"His grandma, why are you so ungrateful?" The man with a national-faced face did not expect that the old tailor would not eat the soft and hard, and began to get angry.
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"These styles and the fabrics you just introduced are very good," Su Dingxian said to the female receptionist with a smile, "But I'm in a hurry..."
The female receptionist smiled and said, "No problem, when will you want it? I will try my best to let the master help you do it!"
"tomorrow!"
"Uh---?" The female receptionist doubted whether she heard it wrong.
"Can you do it tomorrow? I have an important date..." Su Dingxian said, "I know doing this may make you embarrassed, but you can add money."
"Ahem, this is not a question of whether you are not rich or not. The problem is that your time is really too fast... My master is not three heads and six arms, and even if you don't eat or sleep, you can't help you with it!"
Su Dingxian shrugged and said helplessly, "Then there is nothing I can do. It seems that I can only buy it somewhere else."
Seeing that Su Dingxian was about to leave, suddenly---
"Friends, please stay!" a voice said.
Su Dingxian turned around when he heard the voice, but saw the man with a national-shaped face taking a dress and walking a few steps in front of him. He said impatiently: "I heard it just now, you said you want to buy a suit?"
Su Dingxian nodded, "Yes."
"You want to buy men's models, right?"
Su Dingxian smiled and scratched his nose: "Do you think I look like a woman?"
The Chinese-shaped face also smiled, "That's good ----How do you think of my outfit?" As he said that, he handed Su Dingxian the suit he was holding.
Su Dingxian took it and looked at it with his eyebrows raised.
The national face stared at him, afraid that he would not be satisfied.
"This fabric is OK; this style is OK..." Su Dingxian said with a picky look on his face.
The face of the Chinese character is busy selling himself: "Of course, it's a full 2,000 Hong Kong dollars in dress!"
He also said: "My suit is made specifically from French fabrics, and the style is the most fashionable this year!---Do you think it is, Master Luo?" The national face turned to Master Luo.
Just now, Master Luo, who had a national character face, immediately smiled and said, "This customer is right. I have spent a lot of effort on this suit, made of good French fabrics. If you are like yours, you will definitely be handsome when you wear it!" He gave a thumbs up.
Su Dingxian smiled, "It doesn't matter whether you are handsome or not, it's mainly for fit."
"Of course it fits well. Look, my physique is similar to yours, and I am so healthy!" I finally found a next home, but I was afraid that Su Dingxian would not buy it, so I hurriedly promoted it actively.
Su Dingxian: "Since you said that, let's try it first!"
"That's that's it! You'll try it, it's definitely suitable!" said hurriedly.
Su Dingxian started to try on his clothes, and his national face was admiring, "Look, how fit it is! If you don't say it, you thought this set of clothes was specially made for you!---Do you think it's right, Master Luo?"
Master Luo was right next to him and was "nodding insect", "Yes! Yes! Very suitable!"
Su Dingxian wore a suit and looked at the mirror. Although his physique was not as strong and strong as the national face, he had a straight waist and tall figure. In this era, he was so outstanding that he did not look particularly abrupt when wearing this slightly wider suit, but instead felt a gentle and kind feeling.
Su Dingxian was wearing a suit and turned around in front of the mirror.
The heart with the national face was almost falling out of my throat.
Suddenly Su Dingxian began to unbutton and take off his clothes.
The face of the Chinese character asked quickly: "How is it, do you want to buy it?"
Su Dingxian: "I like this set of clothes a little bit..."
"How could you like it a little bit? It fits very well!"
"The main reason is that the price is too expensive." Su Dingxian said, "It's two thousand, I don't have that much."
"Ahem, don't take it off first--the price is easy to discuss!"
"Yes, the price is easy to negotiate!" Master Luo was also busy helping, afraid that Su Dingxian would run away, so his national face was entangled with him again.
Su Dingxian smiled and said, "Then how much money do you want?"
"One thousand eight! The lowest is, I will pay 200 yuan!" said the national face.
Su Dingxian continued to take off his clothes, "Too many, I can't afford it!"
"Hey, don't take it off! Why don't I give you another fifty?"
Su Dingxian said nothing and continued to take off his suit jacket.
The national character face was anxious, "Just tell me a price, I'll listen!"
Su Dingxian: "One Thousand Three!" was straightforward.
National face: "…?!"
Su Dingxian originally thought the other party would not agree. After all, he had also seen the fabric of this suit, and there were styles. For those rich people, 2,000 Hong Kong dollars are really not expensive.
Of course, for those poor people who earn only one or two hundred a month, a dress of 2,000 yuan is simply a "sky-high price" - it's their annual salary.
But Su Dingxian guessed wrongly, and gritted his teeth on the national face and said, "His grandma's bear---deal!"
Su Dingxian: “…?!”
Then Su Dingxian saw the leather shoes worn by the Chinese face and the watches worn by the wrist.
So Su Dingxian started taking off his clothes again.
The face of the Chinese character is anxious: "Didn't you agree? Why did you take it off again?"
Su Dingxian: "I heard that when wearing dresses, you need to wear leather shoes and watches, so that they are fashionable! But look at me..."
Su Dingxian lifted his feet and asked the other party to look at his black cloth shoes. "If I buy your clothes, I will have no money to buy shoes. Wearing such dresses but wearing rag shoes will only make people laugh!"
"Stop talking!" The national face began to take off the shoes, and took off the leather shoes to Su Dingxian.
Master Luo and the female receptionist next to him were stunned.
Su Dingxian: “…?!”
Then he pointed to the watch on his wrist with a font face and wrist without hesitation, "And it, it's better to have a set!"
National face: "…?!"
Chapter completed!