DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA
51-6052 Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers
Occupational Description:
Design, make, alter, repair, or fit garments.| Percentiles | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geography | Employment | Emp SE* | Mean | Mean SE* | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
| Minnesota | 370 | 179 | $16.26/hr | $2.29/hr | $9.73/hr | $10.81/hr | $13.65/hr | $17.88/hr | $23.24/hr |
| U S | 24,870 | 1,244 | $14.21/hr | $0.26/hr | $8.68/hr | $10.05/hr | $12.81/hr | $17.12/hr | $22.29/hr |
| *SE = Standard error, a measure of the statistical reliability of the estimate. | |||||||||
Tasks for Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers
- Repairs or replaces defective garment parts, such as pockets, pocket flaps, and linings.
- Expands or narrows garment parts, such as waist or chest.
- Resews garment, using needle and thread or sewing machine.
- Raises or lowers garment parts, such as collars or lapels.
- Presses garment, using hand iron or pressing machine.
- Records required alterations and instructions.
- Inserts or eliminates padding in shoulders while maintaining drape and proportions of garment.
- Removes stitches from garment, using ripper or razor blade.
- Studies garment on customer and measures pieces, such as sleeves, pants, and hems, using tape measure.
- Fits garment on customer to determine required alterations.
- Examines tag on garment to ascertain necessary alterations.
- Shortens or lengthens garment parts, such as sleeves or legs.
- Measures and marks alteration lines.
- Pins altering folds or marks on cloth at seams, darts, or necklines to indicate alterations to be made.
- Develops design for garment, adapts existing design for garment, or copies existing design for garment.
- Assembles garment parts and joins parts with basting stitches, using needle and thread or sewing machine.
- Alters garment and joins parts, using needle and thread or sewing machine, to form finished garment.
- Draws individual pattern or alters existing pattern to fit customer's measurements.
- Sews buttons and buttonholes to finish garment.
- Presses garment, using hand iron or pressing machine.
- Confers with customer to determine type of material and garment style desired.
- Positions pattern of garment parts on fabric, and cuts fabric along outlines, using scissors.
- Measures customer for size, using tape measure and records measurements.
- Fits basted garment on customer and marks areas requiring alterations.