Tailoring

It is difficult to imagine that just walking on Iiuliu Maniu Bvd one can have the feeling of being on a runway in Italy. But by stepping inside Mon atelier de creatie vestimentara si retusuri (My shop for creating and retouching clothes) the situation becomes a little different. Here the tailors don’t just retouch your clothes, they also have all the skills to create from scratch suits, dresses, with the client’s fabric, that can easlily run in the capital of fashion. They have been working in Italy for famous clothing brands for more than 15 years, but their dream was to open their own shop and come back to Romania. Now they are hiring another tailor.

Calm, having each day something nice to say and always wearing a shirt at the shop, Mr Marin is for many a surprise because just the pieces of threads forgotten on his jumper say that he is a tailor. He is one of those tailors that see their kraft as a form of art and that treat with respect each step of the making. The shop is located at the ground floor of an apartament building right beghind the Court House, away from the noise of the big bulevard.

In the long history of the Coltei street, many shopes have opened and closed down here, the street being a prefered place for trading for the craftsmen of the time. Besides the remaining furrieries, here we can find the tailor shop of Mr. Vasile. Highly-ranked tailor with a vast experience, he analizes with curious eyes the tailoring of the clothes worm by the customers that step into his workshop.

The tailor shop where Mrs Elena works is the only one left on Stirbei Voda St. Wearing a beautiful smile and all the time ready for starting work, Mrs Elena is that type of a tailor that gets its energy from the moment when the client put his hands on the piece of clothing and is happy with it. “For a tailor, there is no greater satisfaction than that.”

One can make in this tailor shop a wide variety of touch ups, easy and without a big fuss. about it. Although many prefer to throw away than to repair, because it takes too much of their time to go to a tailor, here is not the case, the shop being located in a crowded, transitory area, right “in your way”. A stop at the tailor represents quality time dedicated to sustainable living.

If we take a glimpse at old photos of Calea Grivitei, we see a real uproar. This street has always been visited by all sorts of merchants, craftsmen or petty sellers. The tailor shop with interwar looking facade owned by Mr. Constantin has such image hung inside, which reminds one of a past atmosphere of Calea Grivitei. On the shelves there are fabrics made in Brasov. Mr. Constantin has kept the business in the family and he is working together with his son and daughter in law, nowadays mostly does touch ups and rarely man suits from scratch. He has numerous stories to tell: once you step in this tailor shop you find details about what signs to look for to tell if a jacket suits you well, or about the recent history of the looks of the street.

The tailor shop on Stefan cel Mare Street is a place which follows a grounded method of working that has come from the times when the tailors used to spend the night in the workshop if needed to finish the orders. Tailoring is a craft where if you don’t follow the technical process, errors can easily pop up. The creators of pattern are aware of these details. For the tailors on Șoseaua Ștefan cel Mare number 46, no order is absurd order or hard to make it real.

Taking a stroll on 1 Mai Bvd we find Croitoria Artim which answers the needs of those who live or work in this area. One of the methods to apply principles of sustainable consumption is to buy less and repair, but also to choose the local business. The tailors are doing this job for many years now and they say that very little is surprising anymore. That does not exclude that every tailor has their own preferences.

The tailor shop Artim is located door to door with another Artim tailor shop. When the numer of order was bigger, the tailor shops used to be more specialised. But now the tailor working here receive both any kingd of orders, the client being left with the decision which one to choose, the quality of the servicies being the same.

Mrs Valnetina has learnd to sew and make patterns in elementary school, where they had to make bed sheets and uniforms for kindergarden. She is pasionate about tailoring, finding the work at the sewing table very relaxing, seeing how the fabric gets a shape and can be worn. The shop in Tineretului area has been opened for 6 years. Although she has worked in the past for companies that made clothing for exporting, she now preferes to focus soley on retouching evening gowns and mending clothes.