| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Fashion Designer |
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
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- Confer with sales and management executives or with clients in order to discuss design ideas.
- Develop a group of products and/or accessories, and market them through venues such as boutiques or mail-order catalogs.
- Direct and coordinate workers involved in drawing and cutting patterns and constructing samples or finished garments.
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| Fashion Patternmaker |
- Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
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- Draw outlines of pattern parts by adapting or copying existing patterns, or by drafting new patterns.
- Draw details on outlined parts to indicate where parts are to be joined, as well as the positions of pleats, pockets, buttonholes, and other features, using computers or drafting instruments.
- Compute dimensions of patterns according to sizes, considering stretching of material.
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| Fashion Tailor and Dressmaker |
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
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- Examine tags on garments to determine alterations that are needed.
- Assemble garment parts and join parts with basting stitches, using needles and thread or sewing machines.
- Take up or let down hems to shorten or lengthen garment parts such as sleeves.
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