Southern Cross Campus
Tailor/Dressmaker Kaihanga Kākahu
Tailors/dressmakers design, make, alter and repair clothing.
Tailors/dressmakers may do some or all of the following:
- discuss customers' clothing requirements
- take customers' measurements and fit clothing on customers
- estimate how much the clothing will cost to make
- source materials
- mark and cut the material according to the design
- sew clothing
- do alterations or add details such as padding to clothing
- design or alter patterns.
Physical Requirements
Tailors/dressmakers need to have good hand-eye co-ordination, normal colour vision and good eyesight (with or without corrective lenses).
Useful Experience
Useful experience for tailors/dressmakers includes:
- community or night courses in dressmaking
- work as a sewing machinist
- work in a clothing factory or workroom.
Personal Qualities
Tailors/dressmakers need to be:
- creative, with an eye for colour
- quick and neat
- accurate, with an eye for detail
- able to work well under pressure
- able to be honest with their clients about how clothes look on them
- good at customer service
- good communicators and listeners, with the ability to interpret a client's requirements.
Useful Experience
Useful experience for tailors/dressmakers includes:
- community or night courses in dressmaking
- work as a sewing machinist
- work in a clothing factory or workroom.
Subject Recommendations
A minimum of three years of secondary education is recommended. Useful subjects include design and visual communication (graphics), digital technologies, mathematics and processing technologies.
Tailor/Dressmakers can earn around $19-$20 per hour per year.
Tailors/dressmakers may progress to set up their own business, or with further training become garment technicians, patternmakers or fashion designers.
Tailors/dressmakers may specialise in:
- alterations
- wedding and special occasion gowns
- suits
- corporate wear
- work wear.
SchoolPoint by Inbox Design SCHOOLPOINT129, Rendered 0.99MB in 0.0520 seconds with 12 queries.
----