Making, shaping and fitting garments, including suits and coats, as well as altering finished clothing.
Tailoring uses cutting, stitching and fitting to give garments their shape and proportions. It is especially associated with structured clothing such as suits and coats. Fabric can be pinned and marked to establish the required shape, then stitched and trimmed as construction progresses. Fitting allows the tailor to assess how the garment sits and where adjustments are needed. The term also covers alterations to finished clothing. A tailoring role may therefore concern garment construction, fitting or alterations, and the word alone does not identify a bespoke service.
In job listings
Harrods’ Fashion Fitter role in London included supporting the Tailoring team with basic alterations and helping sales colleagues develop basic fitting skills. The fitter also needed to understand how the tailor would carry out an alteration, charge for it correctly and set realistic timelines for the customer. Search local jobs for “tailoring”.
