Clever Entrepreneur

[smoooth2]

Motorcy hawker came down my soi this arvo, beeping his horn. He was "selling" shirt dyeing.

For 80 baht per shirt, he would dye any shirt into colour black. All done on his motorcy sidecart. Little wood burning fire keeping the cauldron hot. 15min immersion of shirt .... and hey presto .... your best white shirt is now fashionably black.

I thought it was a wonderful example of entrepreneurship. Good luck to him.

Check out the attached photos.

[mahdam]

Motorcy hawker came down my soi this arvo, beeping his horn. He was "selling" shirt dyeing.

For 80 baht per shirt, he would dye any shirt into colour black. All done on his motorcy sidecart. Little wood burning fire keeping the cauldron hot. 15min immersion of shirt .... and hey presto .... your best white shirt is now fashionably black.

I thought it was a wonderful example of entrepreneurship. Good luck to him.

Check out the attached photos.

Indeed, good luck to him, he deserves to get on.

[Starman]

This is actually an old trade. They have been around for years.

[urleft]

I am impressed.  Thai ingenuity continues to amaze me.  I have yet to see that service come to our store. 

Too bad the forum know it all idiot could not say a positive about it. 

[nookiebear]

I have to agree with Starman ,These people have been going around for as long as I remember ,Black is the current popular colour but they do other colours as well in normal times.Used to be one chap went around on his push bike pulling a cart.

[davureborn]

I am impressed.  Thai ingenuity continues to amaze me.  I have yet to see that service come to our store. 

Too bad the forum know it all idiot could not say a positive about it.

I owe you a beer, I just remembered.

I think I saw this guy going around the villages a year ago, my wife said dyers were much more common years ago, clothes that could no longer be cleaned (organic stains, blood...) were given a new lease of wearability.

[Starman]

I am impressed.  Thai ingenuity continues to amaze me.  I have yet to see that service come to our store. 

Too bad the forum know it all idiot could not say a positive about it. 

Ahhhh. The art of reading between the lines and critical thinking. Lost on some people.

The OP's pleasant post was nice to read. It did seem though, with the fact that we are currently in a period of mourning and the use of the word "entrepreneurship", that it might have been thought that this was a new trade. I just pointed out that is was actually an old trade. A helpful post.

I was rather surprised that the said chap was "blowing his horn". This type of tradesman usually use a small drum, like below, to announce their arrival.