Why I detest using tailors?

I often watch fashion makeover shows. The stylist in those shows often recommends getting a good tailor that would retouch clothes that would not fit. I did agree with their opinions. However, my bad experience with tailors has made me love ready wear too much to even want to use a tailor.

In the past, I have had many tailors often recommended by my parents. They would sew anything from traditional clothes to European ones. All I had to do is find a cloth and a pattern I like and take them to the tailor. Then he would take my measures, discuss the price and make the clothes I wanted. It should be as simple as that.

In reality, it is not. I find many wrongs with the Senegalese tailors. First of all, they are never serious. They do not keep their words. For example, when you ask them when they think the garment would be finished; they give you a date and time. Yet, when you come that day to take your clothes, you often find them not finished. And before you can ask why, the tailor would invent some excuses. The ones I often hear were: “I had a funeral in the family I had to attend” or “There was no electricity lately. The company has been cutting the energy. Therefore I could not work”.
Second, the tailors never tend to sew the exact thing you asked them. The clothes never turn out to be the think you have envisioned. I had a tailor once who would add 3 to 5 inches to the hem of a skirt I commanded. When I asked him why, he would respond that a longer hem is more decent. I guess he was so religious that he would put his beliefs in making my clothes. However, I did not need his beliefs, I just needed his skills to make me a beautiful skirt.
Finally, I find them expensive. Now that the fashion industry is in full bloom in my country and that every tailor is trying to become a designer by invited really pretty clothes, it is very costly to have a garment made. Back in the days, the tailor would only reproduce a model you gave them. The country had seldom designers. But since the 2000s, the Senegalese fashion industry has been developing. What boosted this industry is the development of the media. The country, which used to have only one TV, has several now. They all have shows featuring designers. Moreover, many fashion and people magazine are emerging, also showcasing those designers. With all this attention to fashion, people find themselves more and more investing (sometimes from $100 up) to have a beautiful garment made.
With all these hassle, I really do hate to have to deal with a tailor. I prefer to shop for ready wear clothes. It can be hard to find the exact thing you want but at least, I would waste less time arguing about why my garment is not exactly like I have commanded it, or going back and forth to the tailor, and less money to have something cute…

Nevertheless, being someone who aspires to become a fashion designer, I do need to see a tailor for him to create pieces that I have designed. It is such as beautiful thing when you find a competent and trust worthy one who would do exactly what you asked him to do. Once I find him, I guess I would detest tailors less and maybe my designer career can take off.