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Chapter 175 The Flare Trousers Storm

After Bai Zirui finished providing them with logistics support services, he began to check their work progress. These master craftsmen have worked for decades with rich experience. In the past two days, 300 pairs of flared pants have been modified. The craftsmanship and quality are excellent. There is nothing to say.

According to their work progress, it is not a problem at all to remake tens of thousands of bell mouths in a month.After checking that there was no problem, he left the tailor shop. First, he went to Zhongguancun Good Day Restaurant and arranged for the store manager Zhou Shengtian to deliver three free meals to Liu Hongwei's tailor shop on time every day.

After solving their eating problems, he came to the COSCO store and asked Cai Lijian to install exhaust fans and ceiling fans for the tailor shop for free.After solving their logistics support, let Cai Lijian do market research on bell-bottom pants in Beijing.

Cai Lijian quickly fed back the research results to him, and the conclusions he got were basically consistent with what he thought. Bell-bottom pants are rare in the capital, and the bell-bottom pants that appear on the market are basically shipped from Guangdong and Fujian.

Cai Lijian is now a qualified manager. Bai Zirui asked him to do a market research on bell-bottoms in Beijing. He not only investigated the market conditions, but also counted the market prices of bell-bottoms in the capital. The average price reached 25 yuan. Each piece, including the best flared trousers made of gabardine fabric, costs 30 yuan a piece in state-run department stores.

We must know that in the early 80s, the average monthly salary of people in Beijing was about 30 yuan, and the price of a pair of bell-bottom pants was worth a person's monthly salary. This is not a small sum.

You have to know how to buy clothes and cloth in state-run department stores in this era, but you need a cloth ticket. His batch of flared trousers are made of high-quality silk, and the price will definitely not be cheap even if you don’t need a cloth ticket. The price of pants is set at 27 yuan per piece.

Wear flared pants with pointed leather shoes, a pointed collar shirt, and McHarris sunglasses. If you are more particular, you need to add a windbreaker, and you can play disco with a tape recorder.He has already asked Cai Lijian to purchase all these items from Yangcheng. Everything is ready, and the only thing left is Dongfeng. They will start selling the first batch of 1000 flared trousers when Liu Hongwei and the others complete their remanufacturing.

A week later, Liu Hongwei had someone inform him that all 1000 bell-bottom pants had been changed.Bai Zirui ordered Cai Lijian to bring someone to spread the modified flared trousers evenly to several COSCO stores.

And he came to the Sixth Textile Factory in Beijing again to pick up 4000 pairs of trousers at a time. He sat in a truck arranged by him and drove directly to Liu Hongwei's tailor.

Liu Hongwei looked at the unloaded 4000 pairs of trousers, and said with some embarrassment: "Comrade Bai, the 1000 pairs of trousers you shipped last time, we worked day and night to help you change them within a week, but this time 4000 pairs of trousers is too much, and we are simply understaffed."

Bai Zirui smiled and said, "Master Liu, if you are short of manpower, you can invite someone! I believe that there are many retired masters like you in the other textile factories. You can ask them for help. I can also support you with 20 sewing machines for free."

Liu Hongwei said solemnly: "Comrade Bai, don't worry! We will work overtime to complete your order on time."

On the second day, Bai Zirui invited a few well-figured female educated youths, whose figures became slimmer after wearing flared trousers, and asked them to act as models at the entrances of various COSCO stores, which immediately attracted the attention of many young men and women. Causing them to rush to buy.

So far, it has led the fashion trend of flared trousers in the capital, attracting many young people in the capital to fight wildly for them. If you wear a pair of flared trousers and walk on the street, you will be so cool that you have no friends.

When Bai Zirui was on the campus of Yenching University, he even saw someone openly wearing toad mirrors with bell-bottomed trousers. Shi Qingzhang in their dormitory was showing off to them in a pair of bell-bottomed trousers.Bai Zirui was thinking strangely in his heart, wondering how Shi Qingzhang felt when he knew that the flared pants were planned by him!
The fashion trend of bell-bottom trousers led by Bai Zirui swept across the entire capital like a "hurricane". Some small workshops even started to produce bell-bottom trousers openly. Big sunglasses, with wavy curly hair, shuttled through the streets.If you have a four-speaker tape recorder in your hand, the rate of returning is absolutely 100%.

Bell-bottom trousers were born in Beijing like lightning, and they were not regarded as fashion, but as a shocking "extraordinary costume".

As a result, some people linked flared trousers with morality, and regarded them as evil things that are "neither male nor female, and the world is upside down", and they were boycotted and condemned.It even led to a vigorous "encirclement and suppression" bell-bottom trousers movement in the capital.

Those young people who "didn't do their job properly" didn't care about it, and put on bell-bottom pants that stretched their entire buttocks round, and ostentatiously walked through the market.

As if the bell-bottoms weren't enough, they also wore black sunglasses (also known as "Mike's shades", named after the American TV series "The Man From the Bottom of the Atlantic").It doesn't matter whether it's cloudy or sunny, even if you go to the dance hall to dance, you have to take it with you.Moreover, the stickers on the sunglasses cannot be removed to show that they are authentic "imported goods".

Boys wear floral shirts and pomade; girls wear black high-heeled shoes and have big, wavy hair.This dress is undoubtedly the "male hooligan" or "female hooligan" in the eyes of the old people.

But the road to fashion has a price to pay, and the discipline teacher at the school gate is waiting for you with big scissors!Which young man's trousers are too fat is found, a click is a pair of scissors, ruining your fashion path.The school ordered that students who wear flared trousers will be disciplined; the factory announced that wearing bell-bottomed trousers is not allowed to enter the factory, and wages will be deducted...

Enthusiastic readers of "BJ Daily" could not see these young people degenerate, so they wrote a letter to the newspaper: Readers are extremely dissatisfied with young men and women wearing bell-bottom pants, and suggest that the newspaper should strengthen publicity and guidance in this regard to help these young people improve. Ideological knowledge and moral standards, but also to purify the air.

The aunts and uncles also took full action, catching young people wearing flared pants on the street, and even sang a popular song called "The Story of Yanfen Street":

"One day a big brother with long hair walked by Yanfen Street,
His flared trousers are stylish and special,

He got himself into trouble because of this,
He was escorted by the street aunt to parade him..."

Bell-bottom trousers, which represent the trend of clothing, have encountered many resistances in the capital. Nevertheless, they are still "flying against the wind". More and more young people would rather be regarded as "ruffians" and "hooligans" and still wear them.In the end, young people won out, and bell bottoms became popular in the 80s.

When Bai Zirui's "encirclement and suppression" bell-bottom trousers campaign started, he had already sold out tens of thousands of bell-bottom trousers in his hand.Tens of thousands of bell-bottom pants earned 270000 yuan. After deducting various costs and expenses, the net profit was 195000 yuan a month, which was a good sign for 1981.

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