How to Grow your Tailor Shop Business?

A lot of tailor shop owners nowadays are looking to expand their business whether locally or overseas and this article will give some advice on how to expand your tailor shop business. The article will discuss four main points from scaling your fabric business from retail to wholesale as well as from increasing your tailoring production output. The fabric business is mainly concerned with textile sales while the tailoring business is relevant to capacity and a high quality sewing output.

For starters, let us start with the basics of the tailoring business. A tailor shop operates by offering a sewing service to its customers who either have fabric they want to sew or would want to purchase fabric to sew based on their body measurements. Most tailors avoid purchasing fabric as they do not want to put their finances or capital in products when their business is a service. While other tailors avoid having fabric since they are not textile or fabric experts themselves.

The major divide between a fabric and tailor shop happened due to the overall specialization of each shop within itself as well as due to other reasons. Most fabric shops are giving sewing or tailoring orders to tailors nearby as a means to sustain a successful business relationship. Tailor shops in Kuwait are dependent on fabric stores to give them orders and fabric salesmen are also being rewarded based on their sales which depends on the tailor shop’s capacity to accept orders.

Many fabric salesmen do not want tailor shops to have fabric in their stores as this causes a conflict of interest for the fabric shop owner because fabric sales might go down. Therefore it is critical to discuss with the fabric salesman to see whether a relationship between the tailor shop can be established beforehand. The rewards or commissions are typically distributed in the night or the next day. All the fabric salesmen and sewing tailors in the fabric market are participating in this scheme.

Another way to grow your tailoring business is to have multiple methods to take body measurements. At Khamco Tailor, we have introduced three different ways to take your measurements at home. The first method is to watch the Youtube video on how to take your measurements and take your body size using measuring tape by yourself, however the risk is high that inaccuracies might occur. Therefore we recommend submitting a tailored garment that matches your size to the shop.

A new method we recommend is to download the mobile application cloudzet which takes your 3D body measurements at home using the mobile camera. This method is precise and can be correlated with our database to cross check the sizing. The last method if all else fails is to have the tailor visit you at home to take your measurements. The tailor home visit can be performed at your home or the tailor can bring the tailor truck where you can enter inside to have your measurements taken.

The most obvious method to increase sales is to purchase wholesale fabric from textile shops as a means to advertise their fabric to customers. These tailor shop owners have an agreement with fabric shop owners to market their fabric in exchange for having the fabric be sold within the tailor shop as a credit system, so the tailor doesn’t necessarily have to purchase such fabric at a high retail price. The difference between wholesale and retail fabric prices is a high margin for tailor shop owners.

The last way to increase your tailoring business is to speed up tailoring production. You can increase the sewing production by having efficient sewing machines, using laser or roller cutters, have a better work station, and implement a tailoring management system. At Khamco Tailor, we have performed almost all the recommendations you have read above and we also plan to purchase a 3D body scanner to simplify the body measurement taking process for our future customers in Kuwait.