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
Harry Rosen’s Tailoring Supervisor role in Vancouver required knowledge and expertise in altering and tailoring luxury menswear, including jackets, pants and shirts. The requirement covered several garment types and explicitly included alterations, making it a concrete example of tailoring skills applied to finished clothing in a menswear business. Search local jobs for “tailoring”.
