Versatility need of the hour, says record-holder tailor

Gurvinder Singh

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 1

To put less pressure on natural resources by increasing the utility and versatility of clothes people wear, all clothes should be made reversible or made in a way that these can be worn in multiple ways, says Pawan Kumar Kailey, a district-based tailor, whose name was enlisted in the Limca Book of Records in 2003 for making a jacket that can be worn more than 900 variations.

He claimed that another ‘Book of Records’ has enlisted his achievement during his visit to the UK last month.

He said making clothes that can be reversed and worn in multiple ways would not only reduce the resources needed for making clothes, but also make wardrobes smaller. Moreover, lesser clothes would require lesser pressure on natural resources and ecology for making clothes as well, he said. This would also mean lesser amount of water used for cleaning clothes as water is already become a scarce resource, he said.

He has not only made a ‘versatile’ jacket, but makes reversible suits for women, men’s shirts, trousers, that can be reversed and worn as new.

“So it is time “smart clothes” are made for wearing them differently every time you wear these,” Kailey says. \ Kailey, who made the jacket which he claims can be worn in more than 900 combinations of colours and designs, has a penchant for making unusual things, including a miniature book, miniature clothes etc. He visited the UK recently and showcased his creativity and skills there as well.

Other accomplishments

Not only trousers that can be worn in 22 different ways including shorts and shirts, Kailey has made pyjamas that can be worn in six different ways. Unlike a tailor next door, he has been able to make the world’s smallest ‘night suit’ comprising one-inch shirt, inch-long pyjama and half-inch jacket, in addition to making a micro-kite that he passed through an eye of a needle, in addition to passing 1854 threads from the eye of a needle.