Tailor and Cutter

Job overview
Tailoring is a skilled job, and the experienced tailor usually combines it with being a cutter.

What do people do in this job?
Tailors design, cut and make clothing according to specific requirements.

Clothes in a small business enterprise are manufactured on a much smaller scale than in a factory.

Tailors usually make most of the outfits themselves.

In large production concerns, the manufacturing process is divided into different tasks, and a different person performs each task, but in a small industry, the tailor performs most of the tasks.

What kinds of people are suitable for this career?
Tailors must enjoy working with clothes, have an interest in fashion, colour and style and have dexterous fingers and good eyesight.

They must also work quickly and accurately so that their high-quality, hand-made to measure, “bespoke?”? garments can have a chance of competing with the mass-produced, machine-made “off the peg?”? clothes most commonly worn today.

What qualifications are needed?
There are no specific qualifications.