Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a tailor can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a tailor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Tailors design, make or fit, alter, repair tailored, bespoke or hand-made garments from textile fabrics, light leather, fur and other material, or make hats or wigs for men. They produce made-to-measure wearing apparel according to customer's or garment manufacturer's specifications. They are able to read and understand size charts, details surrounding finished measurements, etc.

Also known as seamstress, suit maker, alterations sewer, seamster, couturier, custom sewer, cloakmaker, sartor, garment maker, garment worker, couture alterations dressmaker, tailoress.

Craft and related trades workers 41 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: clothing sample machinist, 79%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
clothing sample machinist 79% covered sewing machine operator 78% covered embroidery machine operator 76% covered digital prototyper 72% covered protective clothing apparel m… 69% covered tailor You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from tailor, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a tailor already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A tailor needs 28 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • manufacture male suits handling and moving
  • e-tailoring engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • make made-to-measure garments handling and moving
  • fabric spreading in the fashion industry arts and humanities
  • measure the human body for wearing apparel information skills
  • design wearing apparel communication, collaboration and creativity
  • marker making arts and humanities
  • buttonholing engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • grade patterns for wearing apparel handling and moving
  • history of fashion arts and humanities
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a tailor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Tailor is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a tailor’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.