A Grandmother In Suzhou Custom-Made Children'S Clothes, Little Sister, Dressed In Clothes.

Recently, a grandmother in Suzhou designs a children's dress for a little granddaughter. It has become a hot topic on the Internet. This fashionable grandmother has designed many fashionable clothes for her granddaughter, and her granddaughter does not wear the same clothes for a month.

In the eyes of many young parents, children of the older generation are often synonymous with "woodlouse" and "stereotype", especially in dressing up.

However,

In the Jincheng community of Taiping Street in Xiangcheng District, there is a fashionable grandmother who uses her own 30 years' sewing skills to "tailor" all kinds of clothes to her two year old granddaughter.

The grandmother not only became famous in the neighborhood, but also became a "net red" as a little granddaughter.

In addition to Tibet, almost all other provinces and autonomous regions have her fans.

Net Red Road

The fashionable grandmother named Pan Wenmei, 47 years old, is an ordinary rural woman in Taiping Street, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou.

"She doesn't care much about herself, mainly for children."

Zhao Lei, the daughter of Pan Wen Mei, opened his WeChat friend circle. The reporter saw that although Zhao Lei's daughter had just learnt to walk, she was like a small model. She was wearing a small model, a pair of clothes, shirts, skirts, wide leg trousers, vest, kimono and cheongsam.

Dozens of photos, clothes are not heavy.

Speaking of the experience of daughter and mother becoming "net red", Zhao Lei, the daughter of Pan Wen Mei, said it was quite accidental.

In February 2014, after Zhao Lei's daughter was born, mother pan Wen Mei resigned from the garment factory and went home to be a full-time grandmother to help Zhao Lei bring her children.

About 4 months later, they read news reports. They heard that many children's clothes were tested and the formaldehyde content exceeded the standard, which had an impact on children's health.

"My mother said, since the clothes bought outside are not at ease, why don't you just make some clothes for yourself?"

Originally, as a rural girl, pan Wen Mei was similar to other rural girls in her age. After graduating from junior high school, she did not have many other choices.

Whether to farm or learn a craft.

So pan Wen Mei followed the master to learn to tailor.

However, the tailor's business was not good at that time, and the income was not high.

After about five or six years of tailoring, pan Wen Mei applied for a job at a local garment factory. She stepped on the sewing machine for more than thirty years and resigned in 2014.

Only two hours, the first dress "blockbuster"

At that time, Zhao Lei had no idea of her mother's skill.

Zhao Lei told reporters that although mother pan Wen Mei had been a tailor, but from her memory, pan Wen Mei did not often make clothes for her. "Maybe it was because she was too busy at that time."

Who knows, pan Wen Mei is "a blockbuster".

Until now, Zhao Lei still remembered that her mother, pan Wen Mei, first made a small dress with a cool and simple style to her daughter.

When she put on her daughter, she took a picture and sent a circle of friends. I didn't expect many young mothers to ask her where she bought the skirt. They also wanted to buy one for their daughter.

"I told them that it was made by my mother.

As a result, they said, "I hope my mother can help them."

Zhao Lei told reporters that she and pan Wen Mei went to a cloth store in town to buy the cloth for the dress, which was pure cotton and the price was very cheap.

Style is what Pan Wen Mei thinks of herself.

From imagination to tailoring to sewing, it took about two or three hours to complete.

"Just last summer, my mother made more than 20 clothes for my daughter."

Behind every WeChat friend circle, full of other young mothers' praise and messages, full screen "envy, jealousy, hate", some simply leave messages directly, asking for help to customize clothes.

"Last summer, my mother made about 500 clothes for them."

Zhao Lei told the Yangtze Evening News reporter that at present, apart from Tibet, more than 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions all have pun Wen Mei's customers and "fans". The farthest Hainan and Xinjiang have also courier.

Career path

Granddaughter as a model, daughter is responsible for promotion.

Every time her daughter puts on the new clothes made by her grandmother, Zhao Lei always takes a picture and shows it in a circle of friends.

After seeing many friends and netizens, I hope that Pan Wen Mei can do the same and help her own children, especially the young mothers.

With more and more people asking, Zhao Lei and pan Wen Mei felt that they had the chance to seize the opportunity and start selling on WeChat.

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Zhao Lei promoted, pan Wen Mei was responsible for making clothes. Zhao Lei's daughter was equivalent to a small model.

At ordinary times, pan Wen Mei and Zhao Lei together at Taobao store or shopping malls counters, look at the styles of children's clothing, then go to the wholesale market to buy cloth. After coming back to Zhao Lei's suggestion, pan Wen Mei herself conceived, using more than 30 years of accumulated design experience and skills, to design and make various clothes for her granddaughter.

Pan Wenmei is able to do the work for the children, such as conjoined clothes, shirts, skirts, wide leg trousers, down garments, cotton padded clothes, vest, kimono and even cheongsam.

The cloth was bought at a local textile mill, and it was pure cotton.

"We are acquaintances, know the roots, buy the cloth of their home, the quality can be assured, and the price will be a little more favorable than the outside."

Of course, the mothers of the buyers will also put forward some requirements for changing the colors and lace details of the same style clothes, and Pan Wenmei can also satisfy them.

The possibility of completely reloading the same style clothes is not high enough. "Exclusive" has become a big selling point for tailor's grandmother.

Production of spring, summer and autumn clothes, the most expensive is 100 yuan.

Because the cost of winter clothing is relatively large, and the process is also very complicated. At present, pan Wen Mei mainly makes clothes in spring, summer, autumn and the three season, especially in summer.

Every year from May to August is the peak season for orders.

Now there are more than 2000 netizens and 1/3 customers in Zhao Lei's WeChat, about 1/3 from Jiangsu, and others mainly from Beijing, Shandong and Sichuan.

Zhao Lei told the Yangtze Evening News reporter that all of these netizens were brought up by word of mouth, and they all wanted to buy clothes.

"On the one hand, there are relatively few handmade clothes now, and the cloth we buy is safer, and on the other hand, the price is reasonable."

Zhao Lei said that one of their most expensive clothes is more than 100 yuan, which is cost-effective and fashionable.

In the summer of 2014, pan Wen Mei could make two or three clothes a day on average.

In 2015, as orders grew more and more, pun Wen Mei wanted to do five to six things a day from morning till night, but this is the limit.

"In 2014, on the first day, we can arrange express delivery in second days.

But in 2015, it usually takes a week to deliver. "

Speaking of clothes for children, pan Wen Mei said that there was still some pressure.

"Far away children, such data as height and leg length are all reported by parents. Some of the requirements for clothes are also orally spoken. I am afraid they will not get the clothes they like and feel that they are not looking good."

But, to her great joy, such worries have never been fulfilled.

Road of bitterness

She is an "occupational disease" and does not want her daughter to inherit skills.

Zhao Lei told the reporter of the evening news of the Yangtze, because they were all handmade and finished a piece of clothes, usually two or three hours, very hard.

Now, pan Wen Mei has also left a whole body of "occupational disease", aching back, neck and shoulders are not very good, often painful.

"I had thought that mom would always be old and unable to make clothes one day.

I like to do children's clothing very much, I intend to inherit my mother's skills, but my mother feels that it's too hard to make clothes, and there will be a lot of occupational diseases, so she has always been reluctant to let me learn.

Perhaps that is why Zhao Lei said that at the moment, they did not plan to make this business bigger and stronger. They just did it by hand and earned some pocket money.

Zhao Lei told the Yangtze Evening News reporter that they did this mainly to achieve the value of mother pan Wen Mei and to satisfy a little vanity and a sense of accomplishment.

"I am happy and proud to look at other people's children, wear their own design and make clothes, and get compliments from others."

Some netizens questioned that children grow fast and make so many new clothes.

In this regard, pan Wen Mei said that now

The condition is much better than before. Why don't you want to spend a little money to dress up the children and have a good memory for the children?