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  2. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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    A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing. Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers, and similar garments, usually of wool, linen, or ...

  3. List of sewing occupations - Wikipedia

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    Tailor; Taxidermist; Upholsterer This page was last edited on 11 August 2024, at 10:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...

  4. Tailor - Wikipedia

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    A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing. [1] The Oxford English Dictionary dates the term to the thirteenth century. [2]

  5. Bespoke - Wikipedia

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    A bespoke tailoring coat The bespoke shoe lasts of Queen Victoria from 1898 and Earl Mountbatten of Burma at John Lobb Bootmaker in London. Bespoke (/ b i ˈ s p oʊ k / ⓘ) describes anything commissioned to a particular specification (altered or tailored to the customs, tastes, or usage of an individual purchaser).

  6. Textile arts - Wikipedia

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    Construction methods such as sewing, knitting, crochet, and tailoring, as well as the tools employed (looms and sewing needles), techniques employed (quilting and pleating) and the objects made (carpets, kilims, hooked rugs, and coverlets) all fall under the category of textile arts.

  7. Bespoke tailoring - Wikipedia

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    Fitting of a bespoke jacket. Bespoke tailoring (/ b i ˈ s p oʊ k / ⓘ) or custom tailoring is clothing made to an individual buyer's specifications by a tailor.Bespoke garments are completely unique and created without the use of a pre-existing pattern, while made to measure uses a standard-sized pattern altered to fit the customer.

  8. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    one employed to design, build or repair equipment practitioner of engineering: one who operates an engine, esp. a locomotive (UK: engine driver) entrée: starter (q.v.) of a meal (traditionally, the course served between the fish and the joint, but now used for any starter) (usu. "the entrée") right of entry, insider-type access main course of ...

  9. Clothing terminology - Wikipedia

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    Its drab design and uniformity was a reaction to pre-Revolution class distinctions of clothes, with elites dressing in elaborate silks, while poor laborers wore very rough clothes. The Nehru jacket is a uniform jacket without lapels or collars, popularized by Jawaharlal Nehru , the first Prime Minister of independent India.