When Your Fashion Designer Is Actually A Tailor

Have you ever bought an expensive and really beautiful fabric and being so excited you give it to a dress maker who prides herself/ himself to be a fashion designer? 

After dreams of how you plan to slay in the dress everything turns into a nightmare when the exquisite creation you dreamt of instead becomes a misshapen dress bordering on the macabre.

This is the narration of most people who have been deceived by people who like to attach grand names and hype to their trade. In this day and age, dress makers who are actually tailors find it infra dig to own the title rather they call themselves fashion designers.

There have been tear-filled tales of victims whose dresses have been ruined because the tailor decided to change their status without the necessary upgrade.

Although both may have some tools in common like the basics needed to make a dress, their skills are different.

A fashion designer is someone who is inspired by ideas and creates a design while a tailor takes measurement of a client and cuts and stitches the dress based on the design given, custom made to the desire and taste of the client

The fashion designer creates how every piece of the apparel will be, the cut to make a unique apparel while the tailor just puts the pieces to make the end product. Of course there will be an apparel at the end of it all but it is not the tailor’s ultimate creation.