MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS

READY-MADE CLOTHES

Of late tailoring shops in most of the towns in the district are facing a severe competition from dealers in ready-made clothes. The importance of the latter is revealed by their constantly growing number. Whereas in 1921 there were 577 persons (including men, women and dependents) engaged in this occupation, in 1961 their number had gone over 2,000.

The shops of ready-made garments are situated in the market place of a town in line with other cloth-merchants. Occasionally they also form a part and parcel of tailoring shops or big cloth shops. Generally, they are of two types: those that prepare the garments and sell them and those that purchase garments from wholesalers and sell them to customers. In Bhir district most of the shops belonged to former type. Such shops require sewing machines and other tailoring equipment. The earnings of these shops varied between Rs. 250 and Rs. 325.