TRADES

Tailoring Academy

A complete tailoring course in English and French – and how to open your own tailoring business: 5 parts, 20 modules and 120 lessons. The trade, tools and machines, fibres and cloth, measuring and ease, hand sewing and machine sewing, patterns and grading, trousers and skirts, tailored jackets with canvas and lining, shirts, dresses and traditional wear, fittings and reading wrinkles, alterations and repairs, pressing, quality control and handover – then choosing a business model, registration, insurance, consumer rights and client data, the workroom and fitting room, machines and suppliers, pricing alterations and bespoke work, deposits, break-even and tax, branding and marketing, staff, uniform contracts, classes and your own label, and handling problems. Every lesson has three readings, a worked example, common mistakes, on-the-job checks, key terms, self-checks and a quiz. Look things up in a tools and materials library, a problem solver, reference tables and a glossary; practise with 17 calculators (alteration price, bespoke price, cloth needed, ease, cut length, grading, hourly rate, break-even, capacity, deposits, start-up budget, uniform contracts, lead time, tax set-aside, client value, classes, margin), 20 client decisions, 10 checklists and an exam.

Ready to try · A complete tailoring course in English and French – and how to open your own tailoring business: 5 parts, 20 modules and 120 lessons. The trade, tools and machines, fibres and cloth, measuring and ease, hand sewing and machine sewing, patterns and grading, trousers and skirts, tailored jackets with canvas and lining, shirts, dresses and traditional wear, fittings and reading wrinkles, alterations and repairs, pressing, quality control and handover – then choosing a business model, registration, insurance, consumer rights and client data, the workroom and fitting room, machines and suppliers, pricing alterations and bespoke work, deposits, break-even and tax, branding and marketing, staff, uniform contracts, classes and your own label, and handling problems. Every lesson has three readings, a worked example, common mistakes, on-the-job checks, key terms, self-checks and a quiz. Look things up in a tools and materials library, a problem solver, reference tables and a glossary; practise with 17 calculators (alteration price, bespoke price, cloth needed, ease, cut length, grading, hourly rate, break-even, capacity, deposits, start-up budget, uniform contracts, lead time, tax set-aside, client value, classes, margin), 20 client decisions, 10 checklists and an exam.