Clothing Trades Workers

What the job involves

• Conferring with customers to determine material, styles and designs of garments

• Interpreting designs, sketches and samples to determine pattern specifications

• Cutting out master patterns

• Laying up and cutting fabric

• Pinning, basting and draping garment parts

• Sewing garments

• Fitting basted garments on customers and marking areas requiring alteration

• Sewing buttonholes, and sewing on buttons, hooks, eyes and press fasteners to finish garments

• Pressing and finishing work