80 Year Old Tailor "Made Clothes" For A Generation Of People

80 year old Hengshan old tailor Peng Xu five sister sew more than a dozen, jokingly called herself "clothes making" for a generation of people in Hsinchu south area.

According to reports, Peng Shan Xu, five, a 80 year old girl from Hengshan Township, Hsinchu, has been studying Japanese masters since she was 18 years old. Tailor This is a time of more than a week, not only in the south of Hsinchu, but also in the era of underdeveloped garments.

"Before I didn't want to go to the field to work, I said I wanted to learn tailoring." Peng Xu five sisters, by helping old customers, said that the five girls at home were the youngest sister. She was not as good at reading as her elder brothers and sisters nor wanted to work in the field. At the age of 18, she was tailoring to tailors, a talent for the red carpet, and won the teacher's happiness.

Peng Xu five younger sister said, no matter the earliest Japanese style kimono, daily coat, long distance coat, cheongsam Even the traditional bride's Feng Guan Xia can hardly beat her. She turned out yellowing and trimming notebooks, and each page was full, full of styles and details. She said consumers used to buy cloth to find clothes for her, from early to late.

Almost every household in Hengshan has her tailored system. Clothes & Accessories In order to make a dress for a distant child, a mother also ran to find her "apprenticeship". Many married women came back to make clothes with her cloth, and the little tailors accumulated warm stories everywhere.

Chen Huafang, a villager in Hengshan, said that the old mother had several pieces of clothes made by Peng Xu and her five sisters. They still could not bear to lose them. Many old customers queued up everyday to wait for her to cut clothes. The tailor became a common memory of her neighbors.