Tailors--Ladies'

Look for information on ladies’ tailors under this  heading in Yellow Pages®. Tailors specialising in ladies’ clothing and costumes adopt a planned approach to making dresses as per customers’ specifications. Tailors may create special occasion wear such as ball gowns, bridal outfits as well as everyday clothes such as tops, skirts and jackets. After taking accurate measurements, they create costumes and regular wear by combining manual sewing and mechanised sewing techniques. Yellow Pages® contains a comprehensive list of women’s tailors.

The job of a tailor is to create made-to-measure clothing for customers. Tailors may make everyday clothes as well as special occasion wear such as ball gowns and bridal outfits, theatrical costumes and couture fashion. Whatever the customers’ style and other specifications, tailors make the entire garment from start to finish. Tailors specialising in ladies wear discuss the client’s requirements first. They stock magazines, brochures, and pattern books in order to give clients a wide range of design ideas to choose from. Their next step is to sketch the ideas using existing patterns. It is imperative for a tailor to take clients’ measurements accurately.

Modern tailors use CAD packages to design women’s costumes. The creation of clothing combines manual sewing, particularly during the tacking stage, with machine stitching. In the final stage, fastenings and decorative trimmings are added and the garments are pressed into shape using a heavy iron. Tailors generally make jackets, trousers, skirts, dresses, and tops for women. Some tailors also specialise in handmade creations using their own designs for individual customers. Tailors also make period costumes by adapting designs from specific ages in history. Every costume is thoroughly planned, made, and finished according to specifications.

See also Dressmakers or Tailors–Men’s or Clothing–Custom Made or Ladies’ Wear–Specialised Fittings