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A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew menswear style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them.

Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers, and similar garments, usually of wool, linen, or silk.

The term refers to a set of specific hand and machine sewing and pressing techniques that are unique to the construction of traditional jackets. Retailers of tailored suits often take their services internationally, travelling to various cities, allowing the client to be measured locally.

Traditional tailoring is called bespoke tailoring in the United Kingdom, where the heart of the trade is in London's Savile Row, and custom tailoring in the United States and Hong Kong. This is unlike made to measure which uses pre existing patterns. A bespoke garment or suit is completely original and unique to each customer.

Famous fictional tailors include the tailor in The Emperor's New Clothes and The Brave Little Tailor. A more recent title is John le Carre's The Tailor of Panama.

Related terms

Sewing Professional is the most general term for those who make their living by sewing, teaching, writing about sewing, or retailing sewing supplies. They may work out of their home, a studio, or retail shop, and may work part-time or full-time. They may be any or all or the following sub-specialities:
  • A Custom Clothier makes custom garments one at a time, to order, to meet an individual customer's needs and preferences.
  • A Custom Dressmaker specializes in women's custom apparel, including day dresses, careerwear, suits, evening or bridal wear, sportswear, or lingerie.
  • A Tailor makes custom menswear-style jackets and the trousers or skirts that go with them, for men or women.
  • An Alterations Specialist, or Alterationist adjusts the fit of completed garments, usually ready-to-wear, or restyles them. Note that while all tailors can do alterations, by no means can all alterationists do tailoring. (Some alterationists call themselves "custom tailors": those who order suits from them are typically surprised by the product of their work.)
  • Designers think up combinations of line, proportion, color, and texture for intended garments. They may or may not have sewing or patternmaking skills, and may only sketch or conceptualize garments. They need to work with people who know how to actually construct the garment, or else the sketch will remain a sketch.
  • Patternmakers flat draft the shapes and sizes of the numerous pieces of a garment by hand using paper and measuring tools or by computer using AutoCAD based software, or by draping muslin on a dressform. The resulting pattern pieces must comprise the intended design of the garment and they must fit the intended wearer.
  • A Wardrobe Consultant, Fashion Advisor, or stylist recommends styles and colors that are flattering for a client. They are often employed by actresses and others who wear haute couture clothes.
  • A Seamstress is someone who sews seams, or in other words, a machine operator in a factory who may not have the skills to make garments from scratch or to fit them on a real body. This term is not a synonym for dressmaker. Seamstress is an old euphemism for prostitute.

References

  • Deckert, Barbara: Sewing for Plus Sizes: Design, Fit and Construction for Ample Apparel, Taunton, 1999, Appendix B: How to Find, Select, and Work With a Custom Clothier, pp. 142-143.

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The 18th Century lasted from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.

Historians sometimes specifically define the 18th Century otherwise for the purposes of their work.
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suit of clothes — and its variants: the lounge suit, business suit, three-piece suit, and two-piece suit — is a garment made from the same cloth comprising:
  • A coat (also: suit jacket).

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coat (a term frequently interchangeable with jacket) is an outer garment worn by both men and women, for warmth or fashion. Coats typically have long sleeves and open down the front, closing by means of buttons, zippers, hook-and-loop fasteners, toggles, a belt, or a
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Trousers (or pants in Canada, South Africa and the United States, and sometimes called slacks or breeches — often pronounced /bɹɪtʃɪz/
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Wool is the fibre derived from the fur of animals of the Caprinae family, principally sheep, but the hair of certain species of other mammals such as goats, llamas and rabbits may also be called wool. This article deals explicitly with the wool produced from domestic sheep.
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Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant.'''

Flax fiber

The term "linen" refers to yarn and fabric made from flax fibers; however, today it is often used as a generic term to describe a class of woven bed, bath, table and kitchen textiles because
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Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The best-known type of silk is obtained from cocoons made by the larvae of the silkworm Bombyx mori reared in captivity (sericulture).
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Bespoke is usually a British English term for tailored clothing made at a customer's behest, and exactly to the customer's specification. Bespoke clothing is created without use of a pre-existing pattern, differentiating it from made to measure, which alters a standard-sized
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Trade is the voluntary exchange of goods, services, or both. Trade is also called commerce. A mechanism that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and services.
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London
Canary Wharf is the centre of London's modern office towers
London shown within England
Coordinates:
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Constituent country England
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Savile Row occupies a quiet corner of Mayfair in central London near Bond Street and is famous for its men's bespoke tailoring.

Many of the greatest, most famous or most infamous men in history have patronised the many tailors that occupy this street; men such as Winston
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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Anthem
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Made to measure typically refers to clothing that is sewn from a standard-sized base pattern. A tailored suit is a common example of a made-to-measure garment. The fit of a made-to-measure garment is expected to be superior to that of a ready-to-wear garment because ready-to-wear
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The Emperor's New Clothes (Danish: Keiserens nye Klæder [original spelling]) is a Danish fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen and fi<includeonly></includeonly>rst published in 1837, as part of
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suit of clothes — and its variants: the lounge suit, business suit, three-piece suit, and two-piece suit — is a garment made from the same cloth comprising:
  • A coat (also: suit jacket).

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Woolen (British spelling woollen) is the name of a yarn and cloth usually made from wool.

Commercial manufacture

The woolen process entails that the wool be opened and subsequently carded (often several times to obtain prerequisite homogeneity).
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Tweed may refer to:
  • Tweed (cloth), a type of fabric using the twill weave
  • Harris Tweed, a luxury twill, handwoven on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
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Coat can refer to any one of the following:
  • Coat (clothing), an article of clothing for humans.
  • Coat (animal), the fur coat of an animal.
  • Coat of arms, a heraldic design used to identify a nation, city, family, or individual.

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A skirt is a tube- or cone-shaped garment which hangs from the waist and covers all or part of the legs.

In Western culture, skirts are usually considered women's clothing. However, there are exceptions.
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The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It succeeded the Victorian period and is sometimes extended to include the period up to the sinking of the RMS Titanic
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twentieth century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000, according to the Gregorian calendar. Some historians consider the era from about 1914 to 1991 to be the Short Twentieth Century.
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Cut in clothing, sewing and tailoring, is the style or shape of a garment as opposed to its fabric or trimmings.

The cut of a coat refers to the way the garment hangs on the body based on the shape of the fabric pieces used to construct it, the position of the
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The word trim can mean:
  • Adjustment of sails on a ship or boat
  • Adjustment of the angle of a ship to the water by shifting cargo or ballast.
  • Adjustment of airfoils on an aircraft
  • Adjustment of a variable resistor or capacitor
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Finish may mean:
  • Finishing].
  • Finished good, a good that is completed as to manufacturing but not yet sold or distributed to the end-user.
  • Wood finishing, the process of embellishing and/or protecting the surface of wooden objects.

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A dressmaker is a person who makes custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns. Also called a mantua-maker (historically) or a modiste.
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