RESPONSIBILITIES
Fit and study garments on customers to determine required alterations.
Measure clients to ensure proper product fit.
Sew garments, using needles and thread or sewing machines.
Operate sewing equipment.
Measure parts such as sleeves or pant legs, and mark or pin-fold alteration lines.
Measure materials to mark reference points, cutting lines, or other indicators.
Make garment style changes, such as tapering pant legs, narrowing lapels, and adding or removing shoulder pads.
Let out or take in seams in suits and other garments to improve fit.
Take up or let down hems to shorten or lengthen garment parts such as sleeves.
Assemble garment parts and join parts with basting stitches
Record required alterations and instructions on tags, and attach them to garments.
Mark products, workpieces, or equipment with identifying information.
Remove stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades.
Repair or replace defective garment parts such as pockets, zippers, snaps, buttons, and linings.
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.
Press and smooth garments using hand irons.
Maintain garment drape and proportions as alterations are performed.
Trim excess material from workpieces.
