OP, thanks for reminding me. There is this tailor i gave a job and paid him more than half the amount he charge but he still messed up.

Am still looking for a Sango priest to take there since law enforcement agents dont move tailors this days anymore.

those guys are just heartless.

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most tailors are not lazy.
some are just so greedy that they take many works that they can't finish within a short time

Tovot:
@op its the type of tailors you hv been patronizing. Not all tailors are unreliable. I am a tailor and I know my onions, if you bring a material to me to make for and I know I am too busy, I ld tell you to come back. But some customers are so sturbon ,they like emergency work. They ld bring a cloth today and want to collect it tomorrow, pls am not a magician na, I have other dresses to make too na. So consider the situation the tailor is in atimes.

You sounded exactly the same way the last tailor that disappointed me sounded after telling him im not in a haste,let him take his time to do a good job for me. I paid him well and the job were just seven natives, its been two months now, the courtesy to call and apologies is not there.

GREED......GREED......GREED.
D only reliable Nigerian tailors are the OBIOMAs...
They stay put, work and handover your clothes to u...directly..

bro i tried it.. But its saying i dont have sufficient credit to perform dis transcation or somfin like dat.

StealthyMe:
Blame it on the situation of things
They take on more than they can sew cos of the extra cash


Best advice,want to use your cloth in December, tell them it should be ready by June and you'll get it by Sept/Oct...
Right on time for your occassion

Exactly..and also u tel dem u usin it 4 an occassion lyk wedding nd so on..dey kn be vewi annoyin sha..na onli God go help us 4 whr dem dey..

even when they do not have much work, they must tell you stories

silvoice:
Nigerian Tailors & Disappointment: Work Hazard Or Laziness?

Since I was born, now I'm getting old, I've never given a local fashion designer (tailor) a material and had the clothing delivered on time without one or two stories. What's your experience with them? Is it the nature of the work or are most of them lazy?

Ahh. It's only the gods thaat can answer this question

Hariyorh:
it's not even just fashion designers
artisan = disappointment #synonym
don't bother checking your dico

For your very small mind, abi? what's impressive about the words you used? I learnt these words in primary 3.

When next you feel like stroking your down-to-the-dust ego, try bigger words. Garygoyle.

Hariyorh:
it's not even just fashion designers
artisan = disappointment #synonym
don't bother checking your dico

you are very correct friend all artisan are the same been it carpenter, tailor, shoe maker, dry cleaner name them the simple cause is lack of professionalism

Only the Yoruba Tailors are Unreliable, because they are lazy. Igbo tailors can even cut and sew your cloth before your eyes.

Here in Ilorin, Ibo traders will open thier shops as early as 7:00am bt Yoruba will open thiers by 9.30am, when people have already bought what they need by 8.00. Later, they will acuse the igbos of syphoning their wealth because 'they too like money'

PS: I am neither Yoruba nor Ibo, am Just saying the truth

one disappointed me two saturdays ago,na on d day i wan use d cloth d guy just dey sew am,d guy make me late go d wedding sote i no c gift collect na by luck i c food chop self

silvoice:
Nigerian Tailors & Disappointment: Work Hazard Or Laziness?

Since I was born, now I'm getting old, I've never given a local fashion designer (tailor) a material and had the clothing delivered on time without one or two stories. What's your experience with them? Is it the nature of the work or are most of them lazy?

Which Nigerian profession workers are reliable?

ChurchillStorm:


For your very small mind, abi? what's impressive about the words you used? I learnt these words in primary 3.

When next you feel like stroking your down-to-the-dust ego, try bigger words. Garygoyle.

Must you quote me?...i see you're up for something i will NEVER do *Diss*... just so you know I owe you no explanation for whatever I put up there, nevrtheless, I will be humble to learn from you.
WHAT SHOULD I HAVE SAID/WRITTEN?

silvoice:
Nigerian Tailors & Disappointment: Work Hazard Or Laziness?

Since I was born, now I'm getting old, I've never given a local fashion designer (tailor) a material and had the clothing delivered on time without one or two stories. What's your experience with them? Is it the nature of the work or are most of them lazy?

I share in your plight dear. I ve had terrible experiences with tailors in naija.. They will take your measurement, cut your fabric, bundle it together and dump it somewhere until you show up and harass them. It's even worse if you pay upfront!
I can sew and I sketch all my designs, so I can't understand why a tailor would do the work of 3 hours in 1 year. I give my fabrics to tailors to sew in order to encourage them and also when I'm very busy and don't have sufficient time.
Almost all the time, they cut the pattern of a strange design, not even the design I sketched and explained for them. Till date, 3 different tailors ran away with my fabrics and money. One is a camerounian, one a Senegalese and the other a Birom boy from Jos, plateau state.
I have resolved to either pay for express work, cut the pattern before hand and sit with the tailor till my work is done (I never pay a dime till the work is completed), or I sew it myself (at night, because I will have more time for that).
Ready-made clothings are a better option, although there's a chance of someone appearing for the same event looking like your co-wife, spouse or twin.
Nigerian tailors, una dey fall pesin hand die! All Nigerian artisans are the same.

jesuslovesme123:
It's not a problem relating to tailors only - it's one of artisans in general, and it is because service standards in general are poor. People only improve their service when a better competitor comes along and threatens to kick them out of business. Thanks to the multinationals / foreign owned companies in this country, many local companies have had to improve their standards. Those that haven't improved have been relegated to the backseat or have been totally kicked out (fast food industry, for example).

Absolute fact. A very large number of artisans in Nigeria have similar blood of lies and bad work ethics flowing in them. If you are a fiery client, you could easily do to them the unthinkable. Such a disheartening workplace attitude!

mendobass:
you are very correct friend all artisan are the same been it carpenter, tailor, shoe maker, dry cleaner name them the simple cause is lack of professionalism

The hard to believe truth is that..not all of them follow this trend of insincerity.

Hariyorh:
it's not even just fashion designers
artisan = disappointment #synonym
don't bother checking your dico

your username looks like Harlot

My tailor is good

igbo2011:
My tailor is good

One day na one day! Monkey go go market, e no go return. Your tailor will show you shege one day and you will remember what I said and water will run away your eyes!

IYANGBALI:
your username looks like Harlot

...Explain

too much shakara dey do dem

Hariyorh:

...Explain

the spellings now

As if the OP knows what happened to me 2days ago. Gave this guy cloth to sew Senator 4me. Dude gave me 15days to come pick my cloth.
On the D-day I traveled all d way frm PH to ABA to pick my cloths. With smiles allover that am going to pick my "xmas" cloths , this guy did not even know where he dropped my cloth. I wan run mad. I didnt know whether to be slapping him, carry my cloth back to PH n sew infact I was just looking at dis guy. Right there n then he started working on d cloth. Got to PH around 11pm . I was really really mad.


Well on a side note, I took the time out to go round and check out some nice places to chill out. Lahero Hotel caught my fancy. I had to even wish it was a weekend so as to club small cuz d DJ there seems to know why hez there .

Tailors- most unreliable people on earth. But wen I look at the guy work eeeh , I go come 4get d trouble. Cloth was sewed on point. Very lovely meeeen. Going back 4 another very soon.

ALL artisans in Nigeria come from the "same womb"....

This may come as a surprise but my tailor never disappoints me. He's a yoruba man and he always keeps to his word. It always surprises me sef

Being Unreliable is the first skill most Nigerian tailors acquire before the tailoring skill itself.

Being unreliable is in their tailoring curriculum.

Few are sold out to excellence. My neighbour does it so I do.

Three7Ty9:
GREED! They keep taking clothes from customers, hoping they'll find time to sew it. Unfortunately, they never meet up.

This issue is not jst abt tailors alone. It's abt all artisans/craftmen. I gave a fone to a repairer to change d screen nd flex on tuesday. He told me to com collect it on wednesday. I tell u dat till now, it's been one excuse afta anoda and I'm yet to get it.

silvoice:
Nigerian Tailors & Disappointment: Work Hazard Or Laziness?

Since I was born, now I'm getting old, I've never given a local fashion designer (tailor) a material and had the clothing delivered on time without one or two stories. What's your experience with them? Is it the nature of the work or are most of them lazy?

get ur well tailored wears sewn and delivered withong 72hrs. Frm a reliable tailor in aba. Call 08038409958