1. Written by Gricel Torrez
Tailor/Dressmaker
Written by Gricel Torrez

2. Classes you need for 11 and 12 grade
 English/Language Arts III
Algebra II
Chemistry
• World History
• Sociology
 Personal Care Services
12 grade
English /language art IV
Accounting or Statistics or Other math course
Physics or Anatomy and Physiology
Psychology
• Economics or Personal Finance
Practices in Personal Care Services

3. Type of School you need to Attend
Fashion/apparel Design
Apparel and textiles, general
Fashion and fabric consultant

4. Personality you need to have.
Clean
Quick
Kind
Understanding
Calm
Patient

5. What types of skills do you need?
Time management
Active listening
Speaking
Judgment and decision making
Coordination
Reading Comprehension

6. Daily Tasks
Fit and study garments on customers to determine required alterations.
Sew garments, using needles and thread or sewing machines.
Measure parts such as sleeves or pant legs, and mark or pin-fold alteration lines.
Take up or let down hems to shorten or lengthen garment parts such as sleeves.
Let out or take in seams in suits and other garments to improve fit.
Assemble garment parts and join parts with basting stitches, using needles and thread or sewing machines.
Remove stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades.
Record required alterations and instructions on tags, and attach them to garments.
Examine tags on garments to determine alterations that are needed.
Fit, alter, repair, and make made-to-measure clothing, according to customers' and clothing manufacturers' specifications and fit, and applying principles of garment design, construction, and styling.
Maintain garment drape and proportions as alterations are performed

7. Working conditions
People work In tailor shops, design stores, and clothing stores
You work 40 hours including week days and over time might be necessary
This job could make you be calm, patient, and clean.

8. Earrings and Benefits
Most people earn 8 and $15 an hour. For those who work regular full-time hours $17,000 to $31,000 a year
tailors and dressmakers is $11 an hour, or around $23,000 a year.
a lot of experience earn can make up to $18 an hour, or $37,000 a year.
Self-employed tailors and dressmakers earn $25 an hour.

9. Relative jobs Bookbinder Clothing manufacture Costume designer
Craftsperson
Dry cleaner

10. Career path
Entry level
Intermediate
Master
Self-employed

11. Advantages Can make your own clothing Meet new people
Work with different fabrics
Work by your self
Earn your own money
Make different designs

12. Disadvantages Can get cut Can get burned
Be in a rush
Can get cut
Can get burned
working on cheaply made fabrics
Working with fussy customers or designers

13. The End!!! .