<p>A total of 570 metres of blue and white cloth, eight rolls of thread measuring 300 metres each and three rolls of 500 metres is what it took to create a chudidhaar measuring 118.8 feet in length. <br /><br />This is the largest chudidhaar sewed up by a tailor in the city in an attempt to make it to the Guinness records.<br /><br />Tailor T G Prakash Rao and his assistants B S Roopesh and L R Ravi took nearly seven hours and 15 minutes from 11 am on Thursday to ready the gigantic dress. <br /><br />The dais of the big hall at Sri Chikkammaniketana Choultry at Kuvempunagar here had been turned into a temporary shop, with Prakash and other tailors busy sewing, matching the speed of a machine to accomplish their task.<br /><br />Before beginning the daunting job, Prakash said he intends to break the previous record held by Lomar of Saudi Arabia, who stitched an 111 feet and two-inches-long and 60 feet and eight-inches-wide chudidhaar in February 2010.<br /><br />Prakash had unsuccessfully tried entering the record book in 2008, but he was disqualified due to technical flaws. <br /><br />Learning from the previous experience, Prakash fulfilled all the formalities, before trying his luck again. <br /><br />Prakash finished the arduous job at 6.15 pm. An elated Prakash told Deccan Herald, had he not opted for the design, he would have completed it much earlier. <br /><br />Barring breakfast before starting with his mega stitching work, he didn’t even take a lunch break. “The top part of the dress alone is 69.8 feet long and trousers is 49 feet,” Prakash added.</p>
<p>A total of 570 metres of blue and white cloth, eight rolls of thread measuring 300 metres each and three rolls of 500 metres is what it took to create a chudidhaar measuring 118.8 feet in length. <br /><br />This is the largest chudidhaar sewed up by a tailor in the city in an attempt to make it to the Guinness records.<br /><br />Tailor T G Prakash Rao and his assistants B S Roopesh and L R Ravi took nearly seven hours and 15 minutes from 11 am on Thursday to ready the gigantic dress. <br /><br />The dais of the big hall at Sri Chikkammaniketana Choultry at Kuvempunagar here had been turned into a temporary shop, with Prakash and other tailors busy sewing, matching the speed of a machine to accomplish their task.<br /><br />Before beginning the daunting job, Prakash said he intends to break the previous record held by Lomar of Saudi Arabia, who stitched an 111 feet and two-inches-long and 60 feet and eight-inches-wide chudidhaar in February 2010.<br /><br />Prakash had unsuccessfully tried entering the record book in 2008, but he was disqualified due to technical flaws. <br /><br />Learning from the previous experience, Prakash fulfilled all the formalities, before trying his luck again. <br /><br />Prakash finished the arduous job at 6.15 pm. An elated Prakash told Deccan Herald, had he not opted for the design, he would have completed it much earlier. <br /><br />Barring breakfast before starting with his mega stitching work, he didn’t even take a lunch break. “The top part of the dress alone is 69.8 feet long and trousers is 49 feet,” Prakash added.</p>
