Meet the tailor who fled Afghanistan for a better life and has now opened his own shop
By Deborah Bowyer 2nd Feb 2025
Twenty-three years ago talented tailor, Bashir Rahim, fled Afghanistan to start a better life in the UK.
Now many years later, the creative needleman is running his own business in Alsager and just two or so weeks after opening, business is flourishing.
Bashir, 41, has opened Magnific in Lawton Road, offering tailoring and alterations and already people are queuing up to use his services, not only from Alsager but also from other towns such as Congleton, Sandbach and Crewe.
And Bashir couldn't be happier, for the talented tailor, who has worked in the Netherlands, Chester and Wilmslow, always wanted to run his own business.
"I love Alsager. It's a beautiful town and a great place to open a business. I looked at several properties but each time they had been let and then this one came up," said Bashir who lives in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
"It's a great location and I am very happy with the business. I worked near Rotherdam as a tailor but then came back to the UK and worked in Chester, Altrincham and Wilmslow. I always wanted to own my own shop."
Bashir has bought all the equipment he needs to run his business which offers the full range of services from shortening and lengthening sleeves, hems, replacing zips, taking clothes in and letting them out to making them bigger.
He has a press iron from Italy, a flat machine, bottom stitching machine, a blind hem machine and a heavy material machine to name a few.
Threads in every colour imaginable adorn a wall while a rail of carefully hung clothing covered in plastic wrappers await their owners for collection, including a pilot and a bride to name a few.
"I love what I do. It makes me happy to see people able to wear garments as they want to because they have been altered to fit."
And Bashir, who arrived in the UK in 2002 from his war torn country to start a better life has certainly found a new thread to follow here - right in Alsager.
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