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Tailor/Dressmaker

Tailor/Dressmaker . Written by G ricel T orrez . Classes you need for 11 and 12 grade. 11 grade  English/Language Arts III Algebra II Chemistry • World History • Sociology  Personal Care Services. 12 grade English /language art IV

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Tailor/Dressmaker

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  1. Tailor/Dressmaker Written by Gricel Torrez

  2. Classes you need for 11 and 12 grade 11 grade •  English/Language Arts III • Algebra II • Chemistry • World History • Sociology •  Personal Care Services 12 grade • English /language art IV • Accounting or Statistics or Other math course • Physics or Anatomy and Physiology • Psychology • Economics or Personal Finance • Practices in Personal Care Services

  3. Type of School you need to Attend • Fashion/apparel Design • Apparel and textiles, general • Fashion and fabric consultant

  4. Personality you need to have. • Clean • Quick • Kind • Understanding • Calm • Patient

  5. What types of skills do you need? • Time management • Active listening • Speaking • Judgment and decision making • Coordination • Reading Comprehension

  6. Daily Tasks • Fit and study garments on customers to determine required alterations. • Sew garments, using needles and thread or sewing machines. • Measure parts such as sleeves or pant legs, and mark or pin-fold alteration lines. • Take up or let down hems to shorten or lengthen garment parts such as sleeves. • Let out or take in seams in suits and other garments to improve fit. • Assemble garment parts and join parts with basting stitches, using needles and thread or sewing machines. • Remove stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades. • Record required alterations and instructions on tags, and attach them to garments. • Examine tags on garments to determine alterations that are needed. • Fit, alter, repair, and make made-to-measure clothing, according to customers' and clothing manufacturers' specifications and fit, and applying principles of garment design, construction, and styling. • Maintain garment drape and proportions as alterations are performed

  7. Working conditions • People work In tailor shops, design stores, and clothing stores • You work 40 hours including week days and over time might be necessary • This job could make you be calm, patient, and clean.

  8. Earrings and Benefits • Most people earn 8 and $15 an hour. For those who work regular full-time hours $17,000 to $31,000 a year • tailors and dressmakers is $11 an hour, or around $23,000 a year. • a lot of experience earn can make up to $18 an hour, or $37,000 a year. • Self-employed tailors and dressmakers earn $25 an hour.

  9. Relative jobs • Bookbinder • Clothing manufacture • Costume designer • Craftsperson • Dry cleaner

  10. Career path • Entry level • Intermediate • Master • Self-employed

  11. Advantages • Can make your own clothing • Meet new people • Work with different fabrics • Work by your self • Earn your own money • Make different designs

  12. Disadvantages • Be in a rush • Can get cut • Can get burned • working on cheaply made fabrics • Working with fussy customers or designers

  13. The End!!! .

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