Thursday, November 12, 2015

She can make a dress in 30 minutes

"Did you find a good tailor?" I ask. The choir needed new outfits making up in record time. Thirty of them. They'd chosen the fabric. But each choir member wanted a slightly different style.
That didn't faze the tailor.
"We took the material to her on Thursday. She had no electricity all day so she couldn't start the sewing machine until Thursday night."
Zimbabwe's power woes aren't over. Some of the enterprising -- including teachers in the rural areas, so I hear -- work at night to take advantage of a few hours of electricity.
"She'd finished them by Friday morning. She just needs half an hour on each dress."

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