Dressmaker vs. Tailor

Dressmakernoun

A person who makes tailor-made women's clothes.

Dressmakernoun

A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.

Dressmakernoun

someone who makes or mends dresses

Dressmaker

A dressmaker is a person who makes custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns. Dressmakers were historically known as mantua-makers, and are also known as a modiste or fabrician.

Tailornoun

A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

Tailornoun

(Australia) The fish Pomatomus saltatrix.

Tailorverb

(ambitransitive) To make, repair, or alter clothes.

Tailorverb

(transitive) To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.

Tailorverb

(transitive) To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.

Tailornoun

One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.

Tailornoun

The mattowacca; - called also tailor herring.

Tailornoun

The goldfish.

Tailorverb

To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.

Tailornoun

a person whose occupation is making and altering garments

Tailorverb

make fit for a specific purpose

Tailorverb

style and tailor in a certain fashion;

Tailorverb

create (clothes) with cloth;

Tailornoun

a person whose occupation is making fitted clothes such as suits, trousers, and jackets to fit individual customers.

Tailornoun

another term for bluefish

Tailorverb

(of a tailor) make (clothes) to fit individual customers

Tailorverb

make or adapt for a particular purpose or person

Tailor

A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing. Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now properly refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers, and similar garments, commonly of wool, linen, or silk.