dress making and tailoring exploratory course for grade 7 and 8. [Music] dress making and tailoring exploratory course for grade seven and eight lesson one our topic is basic concepts in dress making dressmaking refers to the crap of sewing clothes and dresses it is the art of soothing beautiful dress from a fabric since dressmaking plays an important role in one's life this module helps you become more competitive by developing your skills and competencies in a living here are some examples of common dressmaking tailoring products the difference of dressmaker and taylor the difference between a dressmaker and a tailor is that the dressmaker specializes in clothes for women including dresses and blouses suits evening wear wedding and bites made gowns and sportswear while a tailor makes clothes for men such as suits jackets and coats tailors and dressmaker can both perform simple alterations from adjusting hem lines in repairing a split seam on any garment that requires repair history of dress making during the ancient times some people did not able to consider dressmaking as one of the areas in livelihood education for the reason that they did not have the idea as to what the things that can contribute to themselves in some other way as what they have observed that some people who were already engaged in this learning area find a way on how to earn a living thus through learning some skills and tourists about it it can contribute a lot to the development of oneself since dressmaking is an old profession some historians argue that its history goes back upon the invention of the needles finally dressmaking as a career became very popular and common in their place once woven fabrics like lenion and silk became the norm history of tailoring tailoring is the art of designing fitting fabricating and finishing garments the word taylor comes from french word taylor meaning to cut the latin word for taylor was sartor meaning someone who patches or men's garments then the english word sartorial which is related to tailored garments is derived from this word today the word taylor generally refers to someone who creates custom men's clothing and performs some repairs a time to remember this is maelin thank you for watching