| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Fashion Tailor and Dressmaker |
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
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- Measure parts such as sleeves or pant legs, and mark or pin-fold alteration lines.
- Maintain garment drape and proportions as alterations are performed.
- Let out or take in seams in suits and other garments to improve fit.
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| Fashion Designer |
- Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
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- Design custom clothing and accessories for individuals, retailers, or theatrical, television, or film productions.
- Confer with sales and management executives or with clients in order to discuss design ideas.
- Examine sample garments on and off models; then modify designs to achieve desired effects.
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| Fashion Patternmaker |
- Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
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- Position and cut out master or sample patterns, using scissors and knives, or print out copies of patterns, using computers.
- Create a paper pattern from which to mass-produce a design concept.
- Examine sketches, sample articles, and design specifications to determine quantities, shapes, and sizes of pattern parts, and to determine the amount of material or fabric required to make a product.
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