7531-Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and hatters

Tasks include

• 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.