World Children's Story Classics: Family Stories

Chapter 82 Tailored
It is said that in the Qing Dynasty, there was a very clever tailor in the capital. The clothes he cut were always fit and just right, especially according to the wishes of the customers.Whenever the tailor cuts clothes, regardless of whether the customer is male, female, old or young, high-ranking officials or ordinary people, he treats them equally. , position, etc. are not tired of asking, before tailoring.

Once, a person took a piece of satin material in his hand and asked a tailor to make an official uniform for his master. When the tailor asked about the situation of the master, the person who came was puzzled and said in bewilderment, "You know how tall, short, fat and thin you are." Now, it’s not filling in the resume, why do you ask this and that? The tailor didn’t get angry, and he explained the truth slowly: cutting clothes and measuring the size are important, but if you don’t pay attention to other factors, it’s difficult to do it for everyone. It is comfortable to wear. For example, the body length and sleeve length of an impatient person should be slightly shorter so that he can move quickly; the sleeves of the slow person's clothes should be made wider to make him look more graceful. Generally, a person is young Zhongju and being an official often have a bright future. Therefore, they are full of ambition, high-spirited, and walk with their heads held high. For such people, the cut should be long in the front and short in the back, so that they can fit well; I have been studying hard for decades, racking my brains, and exhausted, so I must be depressed and hunched over. For these people, the front body should be short and the back body long. As for the size, it is just a dead rule, and there is no need to use your brains. .

(End of this chapter)