Tailors' Trimmings

Look for information about tailors’ trimmings under this heading in Yellow Pages®. Tailors’ trimmings are haberdashery items usually used in dresses and other clothing for special occasions. These trimmings range from buttons to canvases, pads, pockets, and sleeve linings. Several suppliers and retailers specialise in supplying tailors’ trimmings to fashion designers, tailors and dressmakers, interior designers, dry cleaners and hobbyists who like making clothes. Yellow Pages® contains a comprehensive list of tailors’ trimmings suppliers.

The buttons on your shirt, the sleeve lining on your jacket and the pockets on your trousers and overcoats are garment fittings generally referred to as tailors’ trimmings. Tailors usually make suits, coats, and jackets for men and women. They also tailor special occasion wear like couture fashion, ball gowns, or bridal outfits. Tailors need trimmings such as canvas, pads, pockets, lining, and buttons for the clothes they make. Most clothes are incomplete without trimmings.

Several wholesale and retail outlets supply tailors’ trimmings to dressmakers and tailors, fashion designers, interior designers, dry cleaners, and many creative people. These outlets also supply trimmings for school projects and to hobbyists who design their own clothing. Wholesalers have two price structures. The first price structure provides trimmings at normal retail prices and the second structure offers trimmings in bulk quantities at attractive discounts.

Types of trimming to be used depend on the clothes and the occasion. Trimmings range from canvas, pads, buttons to pockets, and lining. Buttons are made from different material including imitation horn, imitation bone and imitation pearl as well as genuine horn. Different types of pads include stitched pads, fused pads, and foam pads. Linings such as sleeve lining, satin, as well as taffeta lining are available in plenty.