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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]
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 ...
A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally. Tailor may also refer to: Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix), also known as tailors; The Tailor, or Scissorman, a bogeyman character from Heinrich Hoffman's Struwwelpeter; The Tailor, a painting by Giovanni Battista Moroni; late Renaissance period
The word bespoke is most known for its "centuries-old relationship" with tailor-made suits, [2] but the Oxford English Dictionary also ties the word to shoemaking in the mid-1800s. [7] Although it is now used as an adjective, it was originally used as the past participle of bespeak. [2]
The word bespoke derives from the verb bespeak, to speak for something, in the specialised meaning of "to give order for it to be made." [1] Fashion terminology reserves bespoke for individually patterned and crafted men's clothing, analogous to women's haute couture, [2] as opposed to mass-manufactured ready-to-wear (off-the-peg or off-the-rack).
In British English, a haberdasher is a business or person who sells small articles for sewing, dressmaking and knitting, such as buttons, ribbons, and zippers; [1] in the United States, the term refers instead to a men's clothing store that sells suits, shirts, neckties, men's dress shoes, and other items.
Mannequin comes from the French word mannequin, which had acquired the meaning "an artist's jointed model", which in turn came from the Flemish word manneken, meaning "little man, figurine", [4] referring to late Middle Ages practice in Flanders whereby public display of even women's clothes was performed by male pages (boys). Fashion shops in ...
The name sartorius comes from the Latin word sartor, meaning tailor, [7] and it is sometimes called the tailor's muscle. [3] This name is likely in reference to the cross-legged position in which tailors once sat. [ 3 ]