{"id":59207,"date":"2020-09-02T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meet-the-nyc-street-tailor-mending-clothes-from-a-pushcart\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T20:37:00","slug":"meet-the-nyc-street-tailor-mending-clothes-from-a-pushcart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meet-the-nyc-street-tailor-mending-clothes-from-a-pushcart\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meet the NYC street tailor mending clothes from a pushcart"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Meet the NYC street tailor mending clothes from a pushcart<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 2, 2020 |<\/span> 4:37pm <\/p>\n

\n Call her Tailor Swift.<\/p>\n

Makayla Wray, 29, an East Village tailor, works in Chinatown for an upscale designer during the day.<\/p>\n

But in the evenings on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 p.m. until dark, she\u2019s a street seamstress working out of an old cart stationed at the corner of East Houston and Mulberry streets.<\/p>\n

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Makayla Wray<\/span>Stefano Giovannini<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIn the morning I make runway clothes, then I come in at night to hem the little guys,\u201d she told The Post.<\/p>\n

The pandemic has created a throwback<\/span> economy \u2014 and Wray represents an updated version of the old-timey merchants who used to barter and haggle downtown in the early 1900s.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say to me, \u2018You\u2019re keeping [the spirit of] New York alive,\u201d said Wray, who offers onsite mending, as well as alterations.<\/p>\n

Her cart \u2014 a retro-fitted nut-roasting app<\/a>aratus \u2014 is one she inherited from her old boss, Byron Kaplan, at Peddler. In 2018, she worked at the \u201cmobile coffee shop\u201d slinging joe in the mornings before heading to TV and movie sets to earn money doing quick fixes on costumes.<\/p>\n

\u201cByron used to say, \u2018You should work full days,\u2019 and I told him, \u2018If you put a sewing machine on this cart I could,\u2019\u2009\u201d said Wray. \u201cIt was kind of a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

But after her freelance gigs dried up when the pandemic hit, Wray struck a deal with Kaplan to take over his old coffee rig at the beginning of June.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to weld an ironing board onto it and make a clothing rack,\u201d said Wray, who also outfitted the cart with vintage Abraham & Strauss and Singer sewing machines, along with spools of thread, a mini-iron and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was originally going to park it [one block west] under the Calvin Klein ad to create a contrast between me and the fast-fashion billboards,\u201d said Wray. \u201cBut there\u2019s not as much foot traffic there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Makayla Wray<\/span>Stefano Giovannini<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She currently works three evenings a week, weather permitting, and accepts cash and Venmo.<\/span><\/p>\n

While she\u2019s sewing, by hand or with her machine, she\u2019ll send customers to nearby bar Botanica for a drink. More time-intensive projects can be picked up the following day.<\/p>\n

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Makayla Wray\u2019s cart<\/span>Stefano Giovannini<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Pittsburgh native charges a range: two bucks for an on-the-spot button, $15 for a hem, and $60 for an old pair of trousers that a friend requested be made into a new bucket hat. And she\u2019ll make custom wares out of old clothes, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI use every inch of material that I can, and I\u2019ll turn scraps into teddy bears,\u201d said Wray, whose favorite projects are ones where she gets to use her tiny workshop to update a beloved family hand-me-down.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome guy wanted me to repair Army pants that had a bunch of holes and tears. The pants were his grandfather\u2019s in the war, and his dad also wore them and passed them down\u201d said Wray.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy I got to save something from being in a box in a storage unit.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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