Run on tailor shops

Better cheap alterations than expensive new purchases

Master seamstress Petra Schumich pinning with her customer Alice Gaber(Bild: Petra Klikovits)

Inflation and climate change are boosting business for tailors in Burgenland. 

There are 91 tailor shops in Burgenland. These include 55 active dressmakers and 36 alteration tailors. The latter are currently experiencing a pleasing increase in customers, says Petra Schumich, regional chairwoman of "Frau in der Wirtschaft". The 50-year-old master tailor from Oslip has observed this trend not only in her own business, but also among colleagues throughout the country, "who are literally being overrun by customer inquiries".