// Unit group · 7531

Tailors, Dressmakers, Furriers and Hatters

Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and hatters fabricate, fit, alter and repair tailored or hand-made clothing. They produce made-to-measure clothing such as suits, overcoats and dresses from textile fabrics, light leather, fur and other material, or make hats or wigs according to customer’s and clothing manufacturer’s specifications.

7 Craft and Related Trades Workers / 75 Food Processing, Woodworking, Garment and Other Craft and Related Trades Workers / 753 Garment and Related Trades Workers / All level 4

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making overcoats, suits, skirts, shirts, blouses, lingerie, corsetry, hats, wigs and similar garments, often to clients' individual requirements

selecting textile fabrics, leather or fur pelts matching the desired size, colour, texture, and quality of the garment; cutting to shape them to garment pattern and arranging them on pattern according to the design of the garment

making garment style changes, such as tapering trouser legs, narrowing lapels, and adding or removing padding

selecting and modifying commercial patterns to customers' and clothing manufacturers' specifications and fit

fitting, altering and repairing tailored clothing, dresses, coats and other made-to-measure garments according to customers' requests

making and caring for costumes used in theatrical, television and motion picture productions

folding, twisting and draping material, such as satin or silk, or sewing ribbon or cloth in the form of artificial flowers or bows around crown and brim to shape and decorate hats

sewing, and fastening together materials and hair strands to make wigs

blending shades of hair to give natural appearance to wigs and arranging woven hair in specified position and sewing hair together to form hairpiece

making, altering, restyling and repairing fur garments and other fur articles

reclaiming furs or skins from old coats, gluing fabric to interior of fur coats and trimming fur garments.

Included occupations

Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Dressmaker
- Fur grader
- Furrier
- Hatter
- Milliner
- Tailor

Excluded occupations

Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Textile handicraft worker - 7318
- Sewing machine operator - 8153

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