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Tailor vs. Seamstress — What's the Difference?

Tailor vs. Seamstress — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tailor and Seamstress

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Tailor

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 properly refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers, and similar garments, commonly of wool, linen, or silk.

Seamstress

A woman who sews, especially one who earns her living by sewing.

Tailor

A person whose occupation is making fitted clothes such as suits, trousers, and jackets to fit individual customers.

Seamstress

A woman who sews, especially one who makes her living by sewing.

Tailor

Another term for bluefish
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Seamstress

A woman who sews clothes professionally.

Tailor

(of a tailor) make (clothes) to fit individual customers
He was wearing a sports coat which had obviously been tailored in London

Seamstress

A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.

Tailor

Make or adapt for a particular purpose or person
Arrangements can be tailored to meet individual requirements

Seamstress

Someone who makes or mends dresses

Tailor

One that makes, repairs, and alters garments such as suits, coats, and dresses.

Tailor

To make (a garment), especially to specific requirements or measurements.

Tailor

To fit or provide (a person) with clothes made to that person's measurements.

Tailor

To make, alter, or adapt for a particular end or purpose
A speech that was tailored to an audience of business leaders.

Tailor

To pursue the trade of a tailor.

Tailor

A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
He works as a tailor on Swanston Street.

Tailor

(Australia) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

Tailor

(ambitransitive) To make, repair, or alter clothes.
We can tailor that jacket for you if you like.

Tailor

(transitive) To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
The website was tailored to the client's needs.

Tailor

(transitive) To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.
A narrowly tailored law

Tailor

One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's tailor.

Tailor

The mattowacca; - called also tailor herring.

Tailor

The goldfish.

Tailor

To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
These tailoring artists for our laysInvent cramped rules.

Tailor

A person whose occupation is making and altering garments

Tailor

Make fit for a specific purpose

Tailor

Style and tailor in a certain fashion;
Cut a dress

Tailor

Create (clothes) with cloth;
Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?

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