About Me

Extensive experience of * years in developing, copying, or adapting designs for garments, design patterns to fit measurements

Applying knowledge of garment design, construction, styling, and fabric; in a timely and efficient determines customers’ tailoring requirements by engaging them in conversation

Skilled in producing a pattern, either by hand or using computer-aided design; excellent tailoring skills, including both hand and machine techniques

Demonstrated exceptional experience in the manufacturing of both period and modern menswear / women’s-wear/child wear

EDUCATION

Fashion Designing, Completed, July 2018

African tailoring institute

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Work Experience

December 2018

Tailor

African tailoring enterprise

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Press garments, using hand iron

Record required alterations and instructions on tags, and attach them to garments

Remove stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades

Assemble garment parts and join parts with basting stitches, using needles and thread or sewing machines; confer with customers to determine types of material and garment styles desired

Fit, alter, repair, and make made-to-measure clothing, according to customers' and clothing manufacturers' specifications and fit, and applying principles of garment design, construction, and styling; fit and study garments on customers to determine required alterations

Let out or take in seams in suits and other garments to improve the fit

Maintain garment drape and proportions as alterations are performed

Make garment style changes, such as tapering pant legs, narrowing lapels, and adding or removing padding; measure parts such as sleeves or pant legs, and mark or pin-fold alteration lines

Position patterns of garment parts on fabric, and cut fabric along outlines, using scissors

Put in padding and shaping materials

Repair or replace defective garment parts such as pockets, zippers, snaps, buttons, and linings

Sew buttonholes and attach buttons in order to finish garments

Sew garments, using needles and thread or sewing machines

Take up or let down hems to shorten or lengthen garment parts such as sleeves

Trim excess material, using scissors

Estimate how much a garment will cost to make, based on factors such as time and material requirements; examine tags on garments to determine alterations that are needed

Measure customers, using tape measures, and record measurements

Skills

Measurement Protocols

Dress Fitting

Alterations

Pattern Positioning

Garment Cost Estimates

Garments Parts Assembly

Design Adaptation

Style Changes

Sewing Machine Operations

Fabric Shaping

Vendor Relations

Made-to-measure

Clothing

Computer Proficiency

Window

Microsoft office

Languages

English

Krio

Themne

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