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A tailor is a person who makes custom dress for women, like dresses, blouses, and evening gowns. The tailor is also called mantua-maker (historically) or modiste .

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Top Tailor

• CristÃÆ'³bal Balenciaga
• Pierre Balmain
• Coco Chanel
• Christian Dior
• David Emanuel
• Jean Muir, a fashion designer (although he himself preferred to be a tailor)
• Anna and Laura Tirocchi, Providence, Rhode Island
• Isabel Toledo
• Madeleine Vionnet
• Charles Frederick Worth

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Related terms

• Tailor shows tailor-made clothes, often in terms of tailor detail that include ruffles, frills, ribbons or braid braids. The Tailor is in contrast to the customized and has not been used since the emergence of casual wear in the mid-twentieth century.
• Mantua Maker , in the eighteenth century a maker of mantuas, or in general a tailor.
• Modiste , clothing makers and fashionable accessories, with the implication that the articles made reflect the current Parisian fashion.
• Professional sewing is the most common term for those who make a living by sewing, teaching, writing about sewing, or sewing equipment. He or she can work outdoors, studios, or retail stores, and can work part-time or full-time. He or she may be any or all of these or sub-specialties:
  • special clothing make custom clothing one by one, to order, to meet the needs and preferences of each customer.
  • Special tailor specializes in women's clothing, including day dresses, sportswear, clothing, evening dress or bridal attire, sportswear, or underwear.
  • A tailor makes custom-style gowns and skirts or trousers suitable for them, for men or women.
  • An alteration specialist or alterationist adjusts a ready-made garment match, usually ready for use, or fixes it. Note that while all tailors can make changes, it is unlikely that all alterationis can adjust.
  • Designer selects a combination of lines, proportions, colors, and textures for the clothing in question. They may not have the skill of sewing or patterning, and may just sketch or make a clothing concept.
  • Patternmakers flat draft shapes and sizes from many pieces of garment by hand using paper and gauges or by computer using CAD software, or by streaming muslin on a dressform.
  • A wardrobe consultant or fashion advisor recommends styles and colors for clients.
  • A tailor is someone who sews stitches, or in other words, machine operators in factories who may not have the skills to make garments from scratch or to adapt them to the original body. This term is not a synonym for tailor . Before the Industrial Revolution, a tailor made a hand gesture, especially under a blackout system. The old variant is seamster and sempstress .
  • Sewist is a relatively new term, combining the words "sewing" and "artist", to describe someone who creates stitched artwork, which can include clothing or other items made with stitched elements.

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See also

• Bespoke
• Fashion design
• Haute couture
• Sew
• Swap

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References

• Butterick Publishing Company: "Art Cutting, Installing, and Making Clothes", 1894.
• Deckert, Barbara: Sewing Plus Size: Design, Fit and Construction for Enough Clothing , Taunton, 1999, Appendix B: How to Find, Choose, and Work with Custom Clothier , pp. 142-143.
• Kirke, Betty: "Madeleine Vionnet", Chronicle Books, 1998.
• Picken, Mary Brooks: Fashion Dictionary , Funk and Wagnalls, 1957.

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