PLEASE DO NOT GO ALONE IF YOU ARE A WOMAN!!!
I have a clothing brand & I was working with him for tailoring and pattern making since april 2022 because his dad has a manufacturing company in turkey. Long story short he did not live up to what he was telling me, always increasing the price on me, & he would always tell me he's busy when I needed to speak w him.
One day i went to show him some clothing I had sewn for my brand & i needed him to adjust/tailor before I got it manufactured. I wore the clothing; it was a crop top. He quickly made a sample of the same thing while i was there & pinned it to my sports bra & then he pinned the clothing to my sports bra which was fine because tailors have to get close & touch you somewhat. He was cutting the fabric exactly how the my original crop top was & he said "Oops don't want to cut your bra". Inappropriate... Then, he started squeezing my waist and would tell me come closer. He went behind me & started squeezing my arms pretty aggressively telling me not every girl is small like me because we were talking about sizing. Inappropriate because he could have told me that without touching me. Then he started squeezing my stomach again from the front, he told me to suck in & then starting pressing the back of my thigh while he was sitting down in a chair. Once he touched my thigh I was like what are you doing and he immediately stopped and said "I'm seeing how you would fit in that dress" (pointing to a dress on his mannequin that has been there since the 1st time I came). And then he said "I wanna give it to you as a gift. Do you want to try it on?" I was so confused & just said no. Then he gets up & asks me for a hug with his arms out & his eyes closed. Mind you the cloth he made was still pinned to my body. I said "no that's weird. You're weird". And he said "okay" and put his arms down.
My question is, was it necessary to touch & aggressively squeeze my thigh, stomach & arms? Nope not at all. One time prior to this, I had brought my dad to his store & would the tailor ever do that if my dad was there? Nope, probably not.
Overall extremely inappropriate & unprofessional. Super disappointed because of this. Not only did he basically sexually assault me & mess me up mentally/emotionally, he also wasted 5 months of my time & it has affected my clothing brand. read more