Sewing of Uniform at Beach Road
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I went to the Beach Road Army Market to sew my rank, formation patch and the collar vocation badge. The auntie charged me S$6.50. $3 for rank and formation patch respectively and $0.50 for the vocation badge.
Is this the normal price? I find it very expensive, I hope the auntie didn't con me or something. When I complained that it's expensive, she asked me to sew them myself the next time.
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wait till u have other badges to sew..normal lor..suck it up...i used to pay 25 bucks for 4 uniforms...rank...formation..vocation...marksmanship...CSB....Originally posted by waves:I went to the Beach Road Army Market to sew my rank, formation patch and the collar vocation badge. The auntie charged me S$6.50. $3 for rank and formation patch respectively and $0.50 for the vocation badge.
Is this the normal price? I find it very expensive, I hope the auntie didn't con me or something. When I complained that it's expensive, she asked me to sew them myself the next time.
correct wat..u say expensive...then sew ureself lor..... -
Yah true lah, if expensive i sew myself. Just disgusted by her attitude.
But any place that offers cheaper sewing or any particular store in the Army market that's reasonable in pricing? -
army market 133 lorOriginally posted by waves:Yah true lah, if expensive i sew myself. Just disgusted by her attitude.
But any place that offers cheaper sewing or any particular store in the Army market that's reasonable in pricing?
i like the place....pay more pay lor.....no diff one... -
Wah liao, you really went down only for that? Next time, check the tailors in your neighborhood central first, lah. If their prices are also too expensive, then ask (or get your Mum to ask) those around in your block.
Or you can DIY by buying one of them mini handheld sewing machines in Bugis or Chinatown or at a pasar malam .... -
Got mini handheld sewing machine one ar?
Yah lor, I went down just for that cos I dun really know the actual measurement for placing those patches and was told by my friends those Beach Road aunties know best.... -
True. "Extra service" payment, then ~lol~ I only sewed rank patches in my time.
Cannot check the appropriate measurements on your friends' No.4, meh?
Those mini machines like this one. Usually no-name brand & quite cheap ($10?), but can last a while if used carefully & sparingly.
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Wah didn't know got this thing. Easy to use anot.
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Well, if your girlfriend or mother does sewing for a hobby, ask them lah.
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ya some shop owners there can be quite rude to customers. i have personally encountered a few myself.
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One of the shops in Beach Road has this really nasty old lady.Originally posted by Gordonator:ya some shop owners there can be quite rude to customers. i have personally encountered a few myself. -
ya loh, eat nsf $$$ nia...
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Golden Mile Tower second floor got a sewing place, not bad also, price i think almost the same but less waiting time compared to those at the army market..
I think if erect an arcade or billard shop confirm make $$$$, cos beach road sew rank very time consuming...
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Oh yah try to get the ranks, patches and those skills badges at E-mart using your credits if your unit never issue you. Cos those aunties charge absurb $$$ for them too.
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ya some shop owners there can be quite rude to customers. i have personally encountered a few myself.
Yeah, some of them got quite cutthroat after the '80s. I'd grown up nearby there in the '70s. One-room flat, but a corner one on the highest floor with a spectacular view of Merdeka Bridge/National Stadium.
When younger, my dad had once saved the old lady who used to run the stall at the extreme right end of the floor, next to the staircase into the estate. (He'd piggybacked her home in the rain after she fainted -- really melodramatic stuff ~lol~) So I usually got a good deal from her whenever I went back, though I usually reciprocated by buying something from the hawker centre below. Some people knew her in the '90s as the one always sitting in the rocking chair but, the last time I was there, her daughter-in-law had taken over the business &, pleasantries aside, it became just like any other stall. -
Which stall is that?
Oh anyway I usually try to go to this store with an uncle and auntie probably in their 40s, the auntie wears specs and has short wavelength hair. Think her store is called 'Emily 123 or something'. She always agrees when I bargained. Something like $5.50 can drop to $4. And somemore they are very nice people.
Once, I went to this old auntie's store and just casually asked her for the price of an item and she just shouted at me, 'What?! You wanna compare price is it?!' Like wth.
Think the most popular there should be the malay auntie. -
exactly, there is bound to be a tailor shop in the neighborhood.Originally posted by blitzonic:Wah liao, you really went down only for that? Next time, check the tailors in your neighborhood central first, lah. If their prices are also too expensive, then ask (or get your Mum to ask) those around in your block. -
my camp emart can use credit....1.02 per item sewed.
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Eh emart got provide sewing service meh?
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Which stall is that?
Haven't been there for a few years now. Beyond what I've described, I also remember her side of the floor is quite airy, with public benches around. Most of the other stalls are sited in narrow alleyways.
Most of the prices at Beach Road are more or less the same, lah. They're petty traders, & it's a dying business even more E-Marts was introduced. Their equivalents would be the old-style gift shops (inside army camps or outside the old SBMT at Nee Soon) or the mama shops in the HDB estates. A lot of other retail businesses have also imported stuff that used to could only buy there, like prickly-heat powder, ziplog bags, camping items & waterproofed gear.
Sidetracking: The chilli noodles on the first floor is famous too, though they've increasingly cooked it prawn-mee style over the years. If you can persuade the owner to sell you his special chilli ($3 in a container), mix some with shreads of fried taupok before adding to the regular tah mee & you've got the original stuff. The version I grew up on anyway. The original hawker used to ply his pushcart nearby in Kampong Glam, in front of the Chong Cheng School (hence the Chinese name for his noodles). Boy, I'm hungry now as I type .... ~lol~ -
there's a shop. i forgotten what.. but the name of the shop is some numbers
by a old chinese couple. i feel that their prices most reasonable, IMHO -
what i did was...
buy rank,
cut a border of 0.5 cm around the rank.
fold inwards so the rank edges won't fray.
UHU glue the fold.
wait till it dries.
UHU glue the entire back of rank
paste rank
wait for 2 mins
lay flat, place weight over uniform and rank for few hours.
Price of rank : $emart credits
Price of UHU tube, $1.1
The feeling of not being ripped off at beach road : $priceless. -
Velco strips? ~lol~