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Craft and related trades workers · code 7531

Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and hatters

Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and hatters fabricate, fit, alter and repair tailored or handmade clothing. They produce made-to-measure clothing such as suits, overcoats and dresses from textile fabrics, light leather, fur and other material, or make hats or wigs according to customers’ and clothing manufacturers’ specifications. Tasks include - (a) making overcoats, suits, skirts, shirts, blouses, lingerie, corsetry, hats, wigs and similar garments, often to clients’ individual requirements; (b) selecting textile fabrics, leather or fur pelts matching the desired size, colour, texture and quality of the garment; cutting to shape them to garment pattern and arranging them on the pattern according to the design of the garment; (c) making garment style changes, such as tapering trouser legs or narrowing lapels, and adding or removing padding; (d) selecting and modifying commercial patterns to customers’ and clothing manufacturers’ specifications and fit; (e) fitting, altering and repairing tailored clothing, dresses, coats and other made-to-measure garments according to customers’ requests; (f) making and caring for costumes used in theatrical, television and motion picture productions; (g) folding, twisting and draping material such as satin or silk, or sewing ribbon or cloth in the form of artificial flowers or bows around crown and brim to shape and decorate hats; (h) sewing and fastening together materials and hair strands to make wigs; (i) blending shades of hair to give a natural appearance to wigs, arranging woven hair in specified positions and sewing hair together to form hairpieces; (j) making, altering, restyling and repairing fur garments and other fur articles; (k) reclaiming furs or skins from old coats, gluing fabric to the interior of fur coats and trimming fur garments. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Dressmaker - Furrier - Fur grader - Hatter - Milliner - Tailor Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Textiles handicraft worker - 7318 - Sewing machine operator - 8153

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 71 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • costume maker
  • milliner
  • tailor
  • hide grader
  • wig and hairpiece maker
  • dressmaker

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

85.4
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 14.6 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 14.6 = 85.4

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

47.4
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

34.2
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 55.4 · hand skill 46.4 · cramped spaces 0.8 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 47.4 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 30, while the average is 14.6. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 30

    Selecting and modifying commercial patterns to customers' and clothing manufacturers' specifications and fit

    Low
  2. 15.5

    Selecting textile fabrics, leather or fur pelts matching the desired size, colour, texture, and quality of the garment; cutting to shape them to garment pattern and arranging them on pattern according to the design of the garment

    Very Low
  3. 15

    Making garment style changes, such as tapering trouser legs, narrowing lapels, and adding or removing padding

    Very Low
  4. 14.5

    Reclaiming furs or skins from old coats, gluing fabric to interior of fur coats and trimming fur garments.

    Very Low
  5. 13.8

    Making and caring for costumes used in theatrical, television and motion picture productions

    Very Low
  6. 13.5

    Making overcoats, suits, skirts, shirts, blouses, lingerie, corsetry, hats, wigs and similar garments, often to clients' individual requirements

    Very Low
  7. 13.5

    Folding, twisting and draping material, such as satin or silk, or sewing ribbon or cloth in the form of artificial flowers or bows around crown and brim to shape and decorate hats

    Very Low
  8. 12

    Sewing, and fastening together materials and hair strands to make wigs

    Very Low
  9. 12

    Making, altering, restyling and repairing fur garments and other fur articles

    Very Low
  10. 11.3

    Fitting, altering and repairing tailored clothing, dresses, coats and other made-to-measure garments according to customers' requests

    Very Low
  11. 9.5

    Blending shades of hair to give natural appearance to wigs and arranging woven hair in specified position and sewing hair together to form hairpiece

    Very Low

11 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
60
AI does it for you
27

Helping wins by 33 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 3932

Compared with similar jobs

There are 65 jobs in the “Craft and related trades workers” group, averaging 83.4. This one is above that.