{"id":405930,"date":"2024-02-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=405930"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Virtue-Tailor-Shop-offers-expert-dressmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Virtue-Tailor-Shop-offers-expert-dressmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtue Tailor Shop offers expert dressmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion Week is virtually every day at Virtue Tailor Shop in San Antonio as its owners are expert seamsters from Saipan&#8217;s old garment industry.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Qian De, a native of Fujian, China who first came to Saipan in 1997 to work in a garment factory, said their business specializes in making dresses, gowns, and suits for all occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Virtue Tailor Shop also makes curtains and does digital T-shirt printing, embroidery, or any other customized clothing, including hats. They also sell jewelry and bags on the side.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from him and his wife Hong Mei being veterans of the garment industry, Virtue Tailor Shop is also equipped with a professional custom machine.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment allows them to craft or make any type of clothes or garment from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>They also don&#8217;t scrimp on materials as all fabrics they use come from Guangzhou, China.<\/p>\n<p>Customers also have the option of bringing their own fabric for them to customize.<\/p>\n<p>As for the cost, Qian said their price range is based on the style and fabric customers want customized.<\/p>\n<p>Qian said he established Virtue Tailor Shop in May 2011 after the last of the garment factories on Saipan closed down, as he no longer had work and had a young family to feed.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing that making good quality clothes were in such high demand on island that Virtue Tailor Shop had no trouble carving its own niche in the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 13 years since and even through super typhoons Soudelor and Yutu, COV-ID-19, and the ensuing economic crises, Qian and his wife have persevered with the business because, in own his words, &#8220;our customers need us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for calling their tailoring business Virtue Tailor Shop, Qian said the name is actually derived from combining the Chinese meanings of his and his wife&#8217;s first names.<\/p>\n<p>Virtue Tailor Shop is located across Royal Crown Insurance in San Antonio and is open Monday-Saturday from 9:30am to 8:30pm and Sunday from 9:30am to 8pm. For more information, call (670) 235-5511\/ or WhatsApp (670) 483-7762.<\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/a5b2283bc65ae93f0e8ab13188e0d734.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Virtue Tailor Shop is located across Royal Crown Insurance in San Antonio and is open Monday-Saturday from 9:30am to 8:30pm and Sunday from 9:30am to 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>-MARK RABAGO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/c9b8d95a64d94b7f6701e043299ded3a.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Virtue Tailor Shop owners Qian De and Hong Mei with daughter, Li Men.<\/p>\n<p>-MARK RABAGO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/d790ed38aa5b046e400d3a9b440b15a9.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Virtue Tailor Shop specializes in making dresses, gowns, and suits for all occasions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Virtue Tailor Shop also sells jewelry and bags on the side.<\/p>\n<p>-MARK RABAGO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion Week is virtually every day at Virtue Tailor Shop in San Antonio as its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}