"If you're in a hurry, making a new set will actually be much faster. You can use your own cotton and pick the fabric from my stall. A complete set takes about two hours to make, though the price for a new set is a bit higher—between the fabric and the labor, it'll probably come out to a little over four yuan!"
Anyone who doesn't know tailoring might think altering clothes is simpler, but for a seamstress, alterations mean picking apart the seams first and then making adjustments. The process is much more tedious and actually more troublesome than making a new set from scratch—at least that way, you don't have to spend time ripping out old stitches.
Even though Sheng Xia had mastered tailoring, altering a garment still meant starting with the unpicking, which would certainly take a long time. Making a new set from scratch was much simpler for her.
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