This village tailor was stunned by the modern tailoring machine and technology ! Tribal People 

Handmade does NOT automatically equate to well made.....

@@killinglonliness88 Well, we are of course talking about professional tailors.

Babu's polite way of saying 'Lol, your shit's primitive, bro, look at this!'

Agreed. There's something to a fully handmade product that makes it more unique than factory-made stuff.

People pay good money for handmade stuff these days

Um. He does that already ffs.

@@deltalima6703 No, hes a village tailor who make commisioned work. - People go there with their needs, when they need it. What OP is on about is something in the direction of a clothing-line. Pre-made off the shelf products, with the twist that everything is handmade. Everthing have a certain style to it, determined by his personal touch. Ad a fancy logo, a website and mail a cap to Snoopdog and hope he wears it in a vid. - A tailor makes tailored clothes. Its awesome, but the nature of the businessmodel makes it limited to face-to-face orders..

@@deltalima6703 you do understand my nuance was intended for perhaps marketing to a bigger market dont you? Sorry if you missed that small point

That's true of most of the best ideas, once it exists it seems like it was always obvious. But beforehand it wasn't, not because it's a difficult idea but because most people's imaginations are limited to what they already know. People believe that the way we do a particular thing must be the best way otherwise why would we do it like that. They'll be willing to optimize the current system to make it better but never stop to question if the system itself is optimal. Most people believe what they do because it's what they were taught and are used to not because they've sat down and really thought about whether it's right. A good example is rent control. Most economists dislike rent control because they point out it reduces the efficiency of the rental market. What they fail to understand is that's the whole point, rent control exists to put landlords out of business because campaigners believe landlords are a detriment to society. Your average economist never considers this as economics is the study of the economy as it currently exists thus anything that damages the fundamentals of that economy is bad, it's not equipped to question whether those fundamentals are actually good or not. I'm not taking a side on that particular debate merely pointing out that one side completely misunderstands the other, their deep knowledge of the subject leaves them ill equipped to question it's fundamentals. The reality is that every system in our society is an accident of history, whilst we may have optimized that particular system over the years that doesn't mean the idea at it's core is optimum. When new ideas first start they're chosen based on convivence not efficiency, the idea becomes more optimized over time but it'll always be limited by it's foundations which were chosen because they were easier not better. That's why if you want to improve something, say a business it's best to consult someone with little knowledge of the industry, they won't have the same baggage you do and will be able to pick holes in the foundational ideas that you are to deep in to see. For example Raeen no doubt works on how he can make clothes faster, he'll work on optimizing the way the currently do things, i.e. can we sew faster, can we get better tools, better materials etc. But he won't question whether the way they do things is actually the right way as that's what he was taught, it's what he knows and hence will take it as gospel. Everyone works on their own piece from start to finish as that's how we were taught to do it hence it must be the best way, when in reality it's that way because when humans first started making clothes that was the easiest way. But now with modern organizational techniques you can easily create a production line and it ends up being far more efficient. But he's deep familiarity with the previous technique leaves him unable to imagine a different one and it's only once he sees it in action that it's obvious benefits become clear. There are plenty of things in our modern world just like this, simple changes that'd change the world completely but we're too wrapped up in how our ancestors did things to ever consider them.

It's about quantity. If you are a tailor for a village, you have to scale it down and that means you are the one making all the steps. I hope he got some ideas of the production that can make his own work faster and easier.

Surely they have assembly lines, in the kitchen or something like that.

​@@JonCombo​Within the country of India? Surely they do. Within Raeen's local area? Apparently not.

@@JonCombo The assembly line was one of the most important inventions of the modern world. We think "they surely have it since it´s an obvious way to optimize work", but the reality is that humanity spent basically all of its existence without thinking about it. Division of labor and assembly lines are not the same thing.

It is true that the majority of the factory workers are not tailors or even sewers. They would not know how to make a set of clothing from scratch just based on their factory skills. Mr. Raeen can actually make a custom suit for anyone, and likely with far more flexibility and materials than the factory machines could (taking into account the time it would take to re-program and re-configure them).

Raeen's work must also be more satisfying, as doing everything by hand takes long enough that workers can socialize to a degree while doing it. When you work an assembly line in a factory where every step takes only seconds you don't have time to think, let alone converse, and there are often prohibitions against socializing and people whose job it is just to supervise the workers. When Raeen completes a piece that he has done 100% of the work on, he can sit back and say, "Look, this is my creation." He doesn't have a basket of bits that get handed off to the next person in the process. Having spent years doing tedious physical work on a farm and other years doing "every second is monitored" type corporate jobs I can say with authority that being able to see your progress makes a huge difference in morale and job satisfaction. "Look at all I got done! That's finished now and I will do something else next." vs, "I've done X 100 times, so now I'll go home and rest so I can come back and do it 100 times tomorrow (and the next day, and the next). Hard to keep that up long-term.

@@Peatingtune Studies have traced a lot of corporate environment burnout due to never having those "this is finished" moments.

Most of the people working in that factory will know how to use many of those machines after many years in the job. Even though it's mechanised working in the textile trade is still a highly skilled job.

A factory job cannot be taught in hours, each worker is skilled and it takes years to learn it. I trained for 5 years as a cutter and the machinists train for 3 years.

Exactly!

That really depends on the tailor

Yeah, it's not expensive. He would need training on that machine, i think.

Before we send them all our cool machinery, consider that electrical service in their community may be problematic. One should learn about their power situation first, before one's fine modern equipment becomes a pile of useless junk.

Does he have electricity to power the machine though ?

@@figfox2425 If either of you had been listening he clearly talks about having a sewing machine but that it is a pedal machine.

@@figfox2425 i remember seeing a comment like this. Something about the amount of electrical output to even power a sewing machine is not commonly available in India. If Raeen can get some American grade solar panels or generator of some sort he would have a lot of success

They clearly mean a modern machine.

The foot pedal machines work great without electricity, that is what my grandma used all the time for sewing everything from quilts to clothing. I know many who have gotten their fingers caught in the electric sewing machine.

And an electric sewing machine. I didn't think anyone used foot powered ones anymore. My grandpa had a manual Singer, his father was a tailor, but I don't remember it ever used in my lifetime at least.

That there are non-steam irons is a revelation to me.

​@@grabble7605 my godmother had a old pre electric iron that she use to have on the wall... It was.. let's say big and heavy... no steam funktion.

I grew up in the Philippines, and I remember when I was very young my parents still had relatively little income we used a coal-fired iron instead of an electric one. I imagine their village in India likely uses something similar since such irons are still being used in more remote parts of my own country. So I can see how a steam iron would be a revelation.

This tailor sounds like he's used to a setup little different from the way men like Elias Howe and Singer worked out vaguely modern sewing machines in the first place, of course he wouldn't be used to a steam iron.

exactly; machines don`t have pride in their work, or want to make it the best they can.

@@TheCentralScrutinizerAgain Machines don't have to "want" or have pride. They'll make it the best they can anyway.

I'm not quite sure that is correct. Most of them could probably make a decent pair with a normal machine. My mother in law use to work in a factory just like that

There are many folks who would prefer a handmade suit, but far fewer folks willing to pay for it.

Oh yes, that would be fabulous. Is it possible to crowd fund a sewing machine for Raeen? It has been said by others that in the west we have a real appreciation for bespoke handmade clothing and pay a premium for it too. I bet that would blow Raeen's mind!

@@RetirementVille Crowd funding, or perhaps the channel could ask Raen to make some garments and present them in a video and talk about his work, and then viewers could bid on those garments.

Id think the issue might be reliable electricity depending on where he lives. Having a wonderful machine counts for nothing if there is no power to run it.

Does he have electricity?

@@OP-1000 He most likely does, but whether it is reliable or not is the question. There can be a power cut at any time in rural areas.

Indian rupee 20,000,USHA TAILORING MACHINE, USD 244.66

A steam iron would be a game changer for him. I remember my mother used to sprinkle a little water on the clothes from a little bowl beside her before she ironed them. Then steam irons came along and made the process faster and it also worked better.

I he has reliable electricity that might be a good idea. The alternative is pressing with a dampened cloth between the clothes and the iron, however he heats that.

​@@philipmervin6967 does he even have electricity. Its not everywhere in India where that is common place. Sounds like he lives in a area where that is a bit less common. It's easy to forget. But electricity in hours have only been common for about 100 years in the west. Prior to that towngas and hydrolic power was what was used.

@@matsv201 sorry, I am from southern side of India,Kerala state not much idea about Raeen's locality and other facilities like electricity.

These are clothes made for the masses. Not everyone can afford a handmade suit. Not everyone has skills to make their own clothes. When I grew up in the 70s, it was cheaper to make your own clothes. We did it a lot. But now fabric can be so expensive so it’s not always as cost-effective as it used to be and it is time consuming but enjoyable for those of us who like to sew.

He's using the type of sewing machine that my grandmother used to use and I'm 60!

@@j.h.3777 I remember those. I’m 57

@@j.h.3777 Nothing wrong with using those food pedal machines. I've found them to be very reliable. They're easy to maintain and even repair at home, they work much quieter than modern electric machines and if you just clean and oil them every once in a while they'll continue working just fine for at least another 100 years to come, most probably longer. That being said, I ditched my electric sewing machine for the foot peddled one of my partner's great grand mother 4 years ago and never looked back.

Machines are expensive. I think that in the cities people are aware. There is more money there.

You may be mistaken. I‘m a hobby dressmaker of many decades. I don‘t like putting in zippers by machine, so I do it by hand, if I have to (most of my clothes have not zips anyway). The machines we saw in the video can be so fast, because the number of stitches is optimised for this pair of trousers and the operatives have gauges to help them be quick. If you sew different garments all the time, perhaps you have only one sewing machine used by several tailors, programming a zipper or a buttonhole etc. might take far longer than doing it a bit slower.

My grandfather came over from Ukraine in the 1910s and worked as an "(sewing machine) operator" in the garment district in NYC. He had an electric machine,

It's kind of ironic. Over hear the last factories closed down 30 years ago because they could not afford to pay the machine operators.