tailoring
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- noun
- /ˈteɪlɚɪŋ/
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- My friend does custom tailoring, so he does my uniforms.
It's this beautiful play on like men's tailoring and it just it's just stunning.
- It's this beautiful play on like men's tailoring and it just it's just stunning.
- Moving on to two stars, quite a few guests leaned onto the literal meaning of tailoring.
- Because you can do the most extraordinary blazer tailoring, the most extraordinarily draped gown, but if no one sees it, it's a secret.
Examples
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That's pretty good tailoring.
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Thank God for bespoke tailoring.
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In the tailoring trade, one learned to notice how people carried themselves.
Fiction book (1993) -
The suit was wonderfully comfortable; was it the fine stuff, the fastidious tailoring, or what?
Fiction book (1998) -
Impeccable tailoring.
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Rhea's clothing was, she knew, the result of superlative tailoring and, on his part, demanding perfectionism.
Fiction book (1991) -
At Pendel and Braithwaite you get Savile Row tailoring... ...with 400 years of tradition behind it.
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The daily routine begins with house cleaning, fetching drinking water, dishwashing, laundry, care of children, tailoring, and sewing clothes.
Academic text (2014) -
In wooden cases hung samples of dressmaking, sewing, tailoring, and millinery crafted by dexterous women students.
Blog text (22) -
The skilled tailor demonstrated his expertise in tailoring by altering the dress to fit perfectly.
Synonyms
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Joining cloth or other material with stitches made by a needle and thread
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tailoring comes from the old word tailor, which meant 'to cut' cloth and shape it into clothing. So tailoring is the skill of making, repairing, or changing clothes so they 'fit' a person.