Namaste, As-salamu alaykum friends. I'm here at Liberty Bazaar in Lahore. I'm here to get 2 salwar-kameez stitched.
So imma take you into the store and I'm gonna show you how you can get a salwar kameez or a kurta stitched here in Pakistan.
And it's the same process for India, as well. Exactly the same.
Alright, bro. So I'm looking for 2 salwar kameez. I wanna get one made from this grey fabric.
My friend gave me this, my friend in Sahiwal and he said make this into a salwar kameez and send me a photo.
And then I wanna get a white salwar kameez.
Similar fabric? YEAH, WELL. WHAT FABRICS ARE AVAILABLE, ACTUALLY?
We have pure cotton. OKAY. And, the other one is a similar.
This is the white.
This is pure cotton or something else synthetic?
It's a synthetic.
Which is more expensive? What are the prices?
This synthetic is more expensive than cotton?
Yeah, little bit.
Really, okay?
This synthetic feels more smooth actually. This feels nice.
This is 80% polyester and 20% cotton.
I think I'll go for cotton. 100% cotton. We'll keep it natural, okay?
Oh wow. There's a huge difference in color here. This is more cream than white.
Both are very fine but this is Lattha fabric.
It's different this is different, right?
Yeah. It's pure Pakistani made.
And where's this one made?
It is imported.
Oh yeah. Italy. China. Okay.
I'd rather get stuff obviously made in Pakistan. We should be supporting Pakistani goods.
So I'm definitely not gonna take the imported fabric. I don't want no Made in China stuff, you know?
I also want to promote our fabric.
That's what we have to do man.
This is also our fabric.
Nice. I want this one. I like the cream color. This color is good.
The white is very tough right? Okay, this cream one.
And what kind of salwar kameez can we make them? I think there's 2 styles, right?
With the collar or without collar. HAAN. SO THERE'S COLLAR AND THERE'S BAND.
You want embroidery on it? EMBROIDERY? NO, SIMPLE. I LIKE IT SIMPLE.
I wanna look like aam-admi. Common man.
I don't wanna look fancy. MANGO MAN?
Mango man. You don't say aam-admi in Pakistan? Meaning, common man?
Mango is aam. THAT'S A LITERAL TRANSLATION, YEAH.
This is 2 patterns of salwar kameez. SO THIS IS A BAND COLLAR. IT'S CIRCULAR.
And then we have, you know, a normal kind of European collar as well. I'm gonna take one of each.
So, let's do the band collar with the grey okay? That grey fabric we have because I know grey looks kinda professional and so does this band collar.
For everyday style we're gonna go with the normal kind of shirt collar here and we're gonna get this one done in this cream fabric. 100% Made in Pakistan.
7000 rupees for all. For the fabric and the stitching as well.
How much is stitching around for? 1600. 1600 rupees, okay.
Now we're gonna go for the measurement phase. So this salwar kameez is gonna be tailored to me and the fit is gonna be absolutely perfect.
So when I got this done in India last time it didn't go so well. They took the measurements and it came out super super slim fit.
And I couldn't wear the three kurtas that I got made there.
But here you can tell them what you want. Regular or slim fit. Here in Pakistan.
And I'm not gonna go for slim fit. The style on the street is definitely regular shirt. Right? YES.
So we won't go slim fit. In India I wear the slim fit type of kurta actually.
I've put on weight since getting to Pakistan. I've to get rid of that weight.
If you wanna buy ready-made...you get a ready-made salwar kameez for about 4000 rupees right?
Around that. For a good quality one. Depending if it's plain or if it's quite extravagant with a lot of embroidery, but.
Obviously paying a bit more you get it stitched and customized according to your body type. So fit is gonna be good.
When you buy the ready-made, usually, it can be a bit long on the arms and bit long on the legs as well. That's what I've noticed, so.
It kind of, sometimes my old salwar kameez, they hit the ground and get a bit dirty. But the sizing will be perfect doing it this way.
So it's gonna take a week to get them stitched. Okay.
How much is final bill? So, 8600 rupees all up for one completely stitched salwar kameez made from Pakistani cotton, right?
100% pure cotton from Pakistan and 1600 just for the stitching of this grey material that I was gifted from my lovely friends in Sahiwal.
And I can come and pick it up after one week. They need little bit of time to give it to the darzi (tailor) and get it stitched.
And do I pay now or do I pay later?
Okay pay upfront. That usually freaks me out to pay upfront but we're in quite a nice store, so. I don' think we're gonna have an issue.
And we'll come back, in like, a week and meet and I'll try them on. Cool. Thank you so much bro.
Allah Hafiz.
I just wanna add one more point on not paying full upfront.
Like if you don't know the store is good quality and if you don't know their tailors are great...
Then, man try not to pay upfront, if you can. Say, 'I'll pay you if you do a good job. I'll pay you after I've tried it on.' Okay?
That's honestly the best thing that you can do. If you're in a store which is not like a really nice store, like that one behind me there I went into okay?
If you're at, kind of, roadside tailor. Do not pay upfront. Pay after you've tried it on to make sure it fits.
Because if it doesn't fit, the guy hasn't done his job right and you should not have to pay. You can't even wear it anyway so what's the point?
But I'm confident because my friend has had many many salwar kameez stitched here. So I know it's gonna be fine.
We'll find out if it's fine and if it's not...you know...then we'll have a fight. That'll be fun.
Chalo. We'll come back in one week. I'm gonna go explore other parts of Pakistan right now and come back.
Alhamdulillah.
We're back now and we're just gonna go and pick up my two new suits and I'll show you what one looks like as well.
We'll go to the changing rooms. I hope they got the sizing right.
As-salamu alaykum ji. Wa alaykumu s-salam.
So here we go.
Look at this. This is the band I was talking about. I'm gonna go try this one on.
And this is the other one we got. Nice.
It's really cool and it's double stitched as well. So bit stronger than the normal, single stitching they usually do. You can see this.
So these are huge right? Look how big that is. My butt is not that big. You know that's huge.
So they're really really baggy. And you stick this azarband through and tie it.
And the azarband which he's putting through now with a pen...it's basically a belt.
And you tie it and you tuck it around or else it sticks out.
You kind of fold it into the waistline.
When I first bought a salwar kameez I didn't have the azarband as well and I was tryna work out once I got it how to get it through.
Just like he's done here and this is exactly what I came up with.
I didn't Google it I'm just like I just attached it to a pen and put it through the waistband there.
Awesome.
Cool. We'll try it on.
Okay I'll be back in a sec.
Look at this guys. Look at that. It's come out so nice and I'm looking quite elegant you know? It's this round collar.
And it's, just cuz it's little bit more fitted, right? The Pathan style is a little bit more looser and you got the collar.
It's a little more casual I find. But this is looking a lot more, kind of, professional, right?
Like, it's the color too. It's the grey and we don't have...it's not rounded at the bottom of the kurta, right?
It's a straight one so I like this style as well. You find this a lot in Punjab here.
This is what most of my Punjabi friends wear this kind of rounded collar. Then we have the normal Pathan style which I love as well. In off-white color.
And the fitting is perfect. So the sleeves are not too long, right? When you buy it ready-made they can be a few cms too long.
And the legs...it's not too long either. This is not gonna be falling on the ground, okay. It's just right for my body.
And just a little bit fitted you know. Tiny bit fitted. It's a little bit more fitted than normal. So, yeah.
Looking good I'm really really happy with what I got here.
So that's that. Look at my suit. Come and get your own suit stitched. Just one thing like...
If you want it nice and loose like the Pathans wear it, tell them you want Pathan style nice and loose.
I was a bit shocked that how tight this was but actualy it looks really good. It's very professional very (what's the word)
Slim fit fitting. It looks pro. I'm looking good in this thing so, yeah. I'm pretty happy.