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Custom Tailors

Description

Design/make tailored garments, applying knowledge of garment design, construction, styling, and fabrics.

Experience

A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Tasks

Draws individual pattern or alters existing pattern to fit customer's measurements.
Presses garment, using hand iron or pressing machine.
Measures customer for size, using tape measure, and records measurements.
Alters garment and joins parts, using needle and thread or sewing machine, to form finished garment.
Confers with customer to determine type of material and garment style desired.
Develops design for garment, adapts existing design for garment, or copies existing design for garment.
Assembles garment parts and joins parts with basting stitches, using needle and thread or sewing machine.
Sews buttons and buttonholes to finish garment.
Fits basted garment on customer and marks areas requiring alterations.
Positions pattern of garment parts on fabric, and cuts fabric along outlines, using scissors.

National Average Salary

$23,670.00/year

Average Salary in Maryland

$22,560.00/year

Important Abilities

   1. Arm-Hand Steadiness
   2. Originality
   3. Visualization
   4. Finger Dexterity
   5. Fluency of Ideas

General Work Activities

   1. Handling and Moving Objects
   2. Thinking Creatively
   3. Communicating With Persons Outside Organization
   4. Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
   5. Performing for/Working With Public

Important Skills

   1. Product Inspection
   2. Operation and Control
   3. Equipment Selection
   4. Mathematics
   5. Active Listening

Frequent Work Context

   1. Provide a Service to Others
   2. Indoors
   3. Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
   4. Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
   5. Objective or Subjective Information

Related Careers

Related Majors (A) Associate (B) Bachelors (C) Certificate (D) Doctor (M) Master

No Related Major Found

MarylandMentor Institutions Offering Related Majors

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