How to make a longyi and an eingyi in Yangon

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Made-to-Measure Myanmar Traditional Female Dress  (Longyi and Eingyi)
Longyi and Eingyi are traditional and the most popular clothes in Myanmar.
Longyi is a skirt and Eingyi is a blouse for Myanmar women. Myanmar female dress usually consists of a pair of a longyi and an eingyi.
You can choose various fabrics and design to make it like Myanmar women enjoy their unique fashion in their daily life. You can also make only a longyi. Many women in Myanmar mix a longyi with various modern clothes like a T shirt.

Step 1: Chose fabrics

At first you will buy fabrics for a longyi and an eingyi.
We recommend SPRITS Fashion Shop one of the biggest Myanmar fabric shop in Sanchaung, Yangon.
So you can choose various patterns of unique design with fabrics. 
The price range of fabrics is about between 5,000 Kyat and 20,000 Kyat.
The price differs with the complexity of weave or embroidery of fabrics.

SPRITS Fashion Shop:
Room No.18-21 Padonmar Stadium, Bagayar Road, Sanchaung Township, Yangoan

Tips: Chose a similar color or a same pattern to be good a combination with a longyi and an eingyi you will make.

Step 2: Select the design you like and take a measurement

After choosing fabrics you go to a tailor shop and select the design.
You can order your dress to Princess Tailoring Shop which is one of the most highly skillful and reliable tailor shops in Myanmar. The staff will take your measurement for your one and only dress.

Princess Tailoring Shop:
No.8 Ground Floor, Nyaung Tone Road, Sanchaung Township, Yangon
[ 2 doors left from Xi Yang Yang (喜洋洋) restaurant ]
They moved to the place above from 8th March 2017.

The cost of made-to-measure is about 15,000 Kyat for a longyi and 20,000 Kyat for an eingyi. The price might be changed by the design you selected.

Step 3: Wait finished products and get it

It usually takes 3 business days to finish products from the day of measurement.
The days to complete differ from the back order they have.

Price and Design Table

Longyi about 15,000 MMK

Wrap-Skirt

Zip-Skirt

Eingyi about 20,000MMK

Side Button

Front Button

Back Cetner-Zip

The fabric price is excluded above tailoring prices.

Princess Tailoring Shop is run by AAR Japan, a NGO supporting persons with disabilities in Myanmar by providing vocational training such as tailoring course to be independent socially, economically and psychologically.

AAR Vocational Center

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