ROLES AND DUTIES
Typical duties of a Tailor include:
- Making sure clothes are neatly folded
- Ensuring the store is kept clean at all times
- Discussing design, alteration, or repair requirements with customers to ensure that their specifications are met.
- Taking customers’ measurements using a tape measure.
- Accurately recording customers' measurements, instructions, and preferences.
- Attaching labels to customers' Items to prevent any errors.
- Modifying garments according to customer instructions, which includes tapering pant legs, reducing the size of items
- Altering garments to improve comfort and fit, which includes shortening sleeves or straps, narrowing lapels, as well as taking in or letting out seams.
- Repairing customers' garments, which includes patching or sewing tears and holes.
- Designing garments for customers based on their design ideas, specifications, and preferences.
- Providing customers with cost estimates for the construction of customized garments.
- Should be responsible for all the machines in the store
KEY SKILLS FOR RETAIL TAILOR
- Proven experience working as a tailor.
- Sound knowledge of fabrics as well as clothing design and sewing.
- The ability to use a sewing machine (both Industrial and Domestic).
- Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and time management skills.
- Outstanding sewing skills.
- Effective communication skills.
- Exceptional customer service skills.
- Good hand-eye coordination.
- Detail-oriented.
PREFERRED SKILLS
- Experience operating a cash register
- Experience operating point-of-sale (POS) transactions
- Experience in maintaining and troubleshooting tailoring machines
