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Day 27 – Out and about – People doing their stuff – Road side seamstress

All over Sukhumvit (where the course is and I tend to hang out) there are these ladies making the modifications to your finery that you require.  No changing rooms, no niceties, just a tape measure, some pins and a sewing machine.  This one’s electric but (and I will try to get a photo) I have seen one of the old singer foot powered one on the side of the road.  Really it doesn’t require a shop front in a major shopping centre filling Westfield’s pockets (not the shop keepers’ pockets).  In this respect the Thai’s have it nailed.

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