Too tight, too late: Tailor sued for sloppy stitching

Petitioner demands Rs240,000 as damages, legal fees.

LAHORE: A petitioner sued his tailor on Monday for stitching his clothes late and too tight and requested the court to make the tailor pay him Rs240,000. A consumer court issued the tailor a notice for a reply on June 1.

Petitioner Hafiz Umar Farooq said he had visited Naveed Ilyas’s shop, Ammaz Dullha Dress Fabrics and Tailors in Wapda Town, on December 3, 2014, to get a suit stitched.  He said he was told to collect it on December 15. “But when I went to the shop to collect my suit they said they hadn’t stitched it yet and told me to come back a week later.”

Farooq said when he returned to the shop after a week, the suit had been stitched did not fit him right. He said the jacket’s arms were too tight and the trousers barely slipped passed his thighs.  He said he had complained about the bad tailoring and Ilyas said that he would fix it in a week. However, when he went back, the suit still did not fit, he said.

Farooq said that he had demanded a refund of the money he had paid Ilyas because the “suit was ruined and beyond repair” but Ilyas refused to do so.

He requested the court to direct the respondent to pay him Rs25,000 for the cloth, Rs200,000 for the anguish he had suffered because of the incident and Rs15,000 as legal fee.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 14^th, 2015.