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  Tailor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew clothes custom-fit to individuals, and to repair clothes.
As an adjective, tailor-made (from the second half of the twentieth century usually simplified to tailored) refers to clothing made by or in the style of cothes made by a tailor, characterized by simplicity of cut and trim and fine (often hand-)finishing; as a women's clothing style tailored is opposed to dressmaker.
Rodeo tailor is a term for a creator of the flamboyant costumes typical of country and western musicians, characterized by extensive hand embroidery, an abundance of rhinestones, and 'cowboy' details such as pearl snaps and arrowhead pockets.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tailor   (318 words)

  
 Tailor's Bunion - FootPhysicians.com
Tailor's bunion, also called a bunionette, is an enlargement of the fifth metatarsal bone at the base of the little toe.
Tailor's bunions are not as common as bunions, which occur on the inside of the foot, but both are similar in symptoms and causes.
Often a tailor's bunion is caused by an inherited faulty mechanical structure of the foot.
www.footphysicians.com /footankleinfo/tailors-bunion.htm   (635 words)

  
 Tailor
Tailors had very young customers, too, because tailors made stays – the boned body supports that gave structure to the bodices of the clothing of women and children.
Tailors also made cloaks, Newmarkets, hunting coats, great coats, wrapping gowns, and banyans – a type of loose fitting coat with origins in India – which men often worn at home, or in a tavern or gentlemen’s club.
There is one reference in Williamsburg to a female tailor who was paid for her work, but she never advertised as being a tailor, and no other reference was made to her, leading historians to surmise she was likely the widow of a tailor who took up his trade when he died.
www.history.org /Almanack/life/trades/tradetai.cfm   (782 words)

  
 The Valiant Little Tailor. Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. 1909-14. Household Tales. The Harvard Classics
But the little tailor was much too weak to hold the tree, and when the giant let it go, it sprang back again, and the tailor was hurried into the air with it.
When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had given the grasshopper his finishing stroke.
When the boar perceived the tailor, it ran on him with foaming mouth and whetted tusks, and was about to throw him to the ground, but the active hero sprang into a chapel which was near, and up to the window at once, and in one bound out again.
www.bartleby.com /17/2/11.html   (2665 words)

  
 Conservation of Fish Species - Tailor (Pomatomus saltatrix) , Department of Fisheries, Western Australia, Fish for the ...
Tailor runs along the beaches generally start in November or December, as water conditions warm up, but late January and February are often peak fishing times.
Tailor take between two and three years to reach spawning size at between 28 and 33cm, but may survive over 14 years to reach in excess of 8 kilos.
Tailor are serial spawners, ie they release eggs and milt on a number of occasions during the season.
www.fish.wa.gov.au /rec/broc/fishcard/tailor.html   (616 words)

  
 Tinker, Tailor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tinker Tailor is a counting game traditionally played in England, similar to the American Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
The tinker, tailor is one part of a longer counting game, often played by young girls; it runs as follows:-
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich-man, poor-man, beggar-man, thief.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tinker,_Tailor   (261 words)

  
 UO Stratics - Professions - The Tailor
Tailoring has been changed to require you to have the materials within your pack and hides are very heavy.
Tailoring is now skill based which means that you will only see those objects that you have any hope of making.
The problem with tailoring is that you can't stay in one place and expect to market your goods in volume; leastwise not in a timely manner.
uo.stratics.com /content/professions/tailor/tailor.shtml   (5555 words)

  
 Napoleon's Tailor -- Home
Napoleon's Tailor opened in 1994 to provide the shorter man the opportunity to obtain clothing that fits them proportionately.
The concept of Napoleon's Tailor came from the inability of the shorter man to find properly fitting clothing.
Napoleon's Tailor carries a full line of casual and dress wear for men 5'8" or under.
www.napoleanstailor.com   (162 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Tailor of Panama: Books: John Le Carre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Tailor of Panama is something else entirely: a spy novel with no spies in which the bad guys reap most of the rewards.
Tailor of Panama is brilliant; it's only defect is that, being very good, it became the source of a very bad movie.
Harry Pendel is a tailor fit for the job...the perfect plant in a city filled with danger and corruption.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679454462?v=glance   (2390 words)

  
 WHI Kid's Zone Bedtime Stories: The Brave Little Tailor
Once upon a time, a little tailor was sitting at his workbench sewing, when he heard a woman's voice in the street below.
Then the tailor pulled the bird from his pocket and threw it in the air.
The tailor was truly enjoying the ride and soon fell asleep cradled in the branches.
www.yesicankids.gov /bedtime/tailor.html   (666 words)

  
 english cut: bespoke savile row tailors
I'm pleased to announce that a super tailor of Savile Row, and once again a very good friend of mine, Ravi Tailor of Anthony J Hewitt, is coming to New York this weekend.
I do love telling you what we tailors on Savile Row are up to, but we wouldn't be tailors if we didn't have customers, and Thank God, I've a plenty to look after at the moment.
Bespoke tailors in cluttered workshops on this famous London street have been handsewing suits for royals, statesmen, film stars and men of distinction and style for almost two centuries.
www.englishcut.com   (7338 words)

  
 The Brave Little Tailor
But the little tailor was much too weak to hold the tree, and when the giant let it go, it sprang back again, and the tailor was tossed into the air with it.
When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good.
When the boar perceived the tailor, it ran on him with foaming mouth and whetted tusks, and was about to throw him to the ground, but the hero fled and sprang into a chapel which was near, and up to the window at once, and in one bound out again.
www.fln.vcu.edu /grimm/schneider_e.html   (3097 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - John Paul's longtime tailor pays tribute to the pontiff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Tailor holds the "zucchetto," or white silk skullcap, that late Pope John Paul II never had the chance to wear, in the window of the tiny shop that served the pontiff.
When the new pope is elected, after the cardinals begin their conclave April 18, he will choose the cassock that fits best and then step out onto the balcony over St. Peter's Square.
Inside, generations of tailors have made religious robes by hand, down to the silk-covered buttons.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-04-07-Pope-tailor_x.htm   (1100 words)

  
 Tailor, Pomatomus saltatrix
The Tailor has a moderately elongate, compressed body that is covered with small ctenoid scales.
The Tailor occurs in oceanic waters as well as estuaries and inshore waters.
In Australia it is known from southern Queensland, around the temperate south of the country and north to the central coast of Western Australia.
www.amonline.net.au /fishes/fishfacts/fish/psaltatrix.htm   (187 words)

  
 Tailor Made   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Tailor Made is a well established, and high quality tailors located in the Midlands area across two stores.
Tailor Made, since its beginning in 1995, has grown in size and reputation at a remarkable rate.
Tailor Made has also opened another branch in the Rednal area of Birmingham and will soon be opening further branches.
www.tailor-made.uk.com   (166 words)

  
 tailor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It seems that a man had gone to the tailor to have a suit made cheaply, but when the suit was finished and he went to try it on, it didn't fit him at all.
Complaining that the jacket was too big in back, the right arm was too long, one pant leg was too short and three buttons were missing, the man was justifiably upset.
"No problem," said the tailor, "just hunch your back, bend your arm, walk with a limp, and stick your fingers through the button holes and you'll look just fine!" The man contorted his body to fit the suit and feeling duped by the tailor, he left.
goto.bilkent.edu.tr /gunes/tailor.htm   (206 words)

  
 Men's Tailoring and Clothing in Jakarta, Indonesia
Better tailors stock imported fabric from quality Asian sources as well as from the famous fashion houses overseas.
Try to locate a full-service tailor who is more likely to keep up with fashion, have quality fabrics and excellent tailoring skills.
If you find yourself in need of winter clothes during your stay in Indonesia you may be able to find sweaters and coats in your size from the factory outlet stores in Jakarta and Bandung.
www.expat.or.id /info/tailor.html   (980 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Tailor Of Panama (xhtml)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The statement is made by Harry Pendel, a tailor in Panama City, to Andy Osnard, a British spy who for his sins has been posted to this diplomatic dead-end.
The beauty of John Boorman's "The Tailor of Panama" is that the movie has no heroes, either.
"The Tailor of Panama" is a real movie, rich and atmospheric, savoring its disreputable characters and their human weaknesses.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010330/REVIEWS/103300303/1023   (836 words)

  
 WoW.com -> Info -> Professions -> Tailoring
Tailoring allows players to cut and weave various pieces of cloth into armor, bags, shirts, and other cloth items.
Tailors do not require any special equipment to create their items, such as flsmiths require anvils.
Tailors can also create special outfits such as dresses or formal attire.
www.worldofwarcraft.com /info/professions/tailoring.html   (666 words)

  
 NPR : Georges De Paris, Tailor to Presidents
Georges De Paris is the unofficial tailor to the presidents.
It's not a full-time job, just an offshoot of his tailoring business at a small shop a stone's throw from the White House.
It was a love affair with a young lady that brought him to Washington -- but the romance failed and he found himself without a home and without his savings.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=938642   (473 words)

  
 Textile, apparel, and furnishings occupations
Custom tailoring is a highly competitive field, however, and training in small-business operations can mean the difference between success and failure.
Overall, about 11 percent of all workers in textile, apparel, and furnishings occupations were self-employed; however, 54 percent of tailors, dressmakers, and sewers and 27 percent of upholsterers were self-employed.
Outside of the manufacturing sector, tailors, dressmakers, and sewers—the most skilled apparel workers—also are expected to experience declining employment.
stats.bls.gov /oco/ocos233.htm   (3306 words)

  
 VisualStore | E-Tailor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This composition of 200,000 data measurements, including wrist, bicep and neck circumference and slope of shoulders, is electronically communicated to a manufacturing plant, where a perfectly customized suit is produced according to the shopper's style and fabric specifications.
The digital tailoring section is on the third floor of the Madison Avenue store, staffed by four experienced "custom professionals," who guide customers one at a time into a mahogany-paneled dressing room to change clothes.
And, though digital tailoring was originally targeted at younger men (Brooks Brothers assumed that traditional "ceo-types" would stay faithful to hand-customization), the company has found that interest has come from a range of demographics.
www.visualstore.com /nr/vendor/cont/brooksetailor.html   (961 words)

  
 Brad Bradley, SWG Tailor (main)
Basically, the Tailor buys the tissues from a Bio Engineer, uses them (either manually or with a factory) to make customized clothing components, which can then be substituted for regular components in making certain clothing.
This is especially true for tailors who make the same mistake I did of starting with Casual Wear, and who therefore have to use Cloaks for their grinding.
Every Tailor is sooner or later going to need at least one house, a personal crafting station, stacks of harvesters, a solar or fusion power plant, and at least one Wearables Factory.
www.infamousbrad.com /swg/backup.html   (2743 words)

  
 Tailor Of Panama - Blue Haze Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Harry Pendel, an Irish / Jewish tailor in Panama, is recruited by a British spy, Andrew Osnard, who wants him to listen to the conversations of the Panamanian generals and politicians he clothes.
Filming for the Tailor is slowly rapping up now, with the film moving into its final production stages in which the film will be edited.
The first 'Tailor of Panama' Fanart in existence is now up and it's exclusive to Blue Haze Movies, it was proudly created by Daniel Dykes.
www.geocities.com /bluehazemovies/tailorpanama   (2689 words)

  
 5 Tailor Tricks
Your tailor can lop off the bottom of a dated long skirt, shortening it to a flattering knee length.
Ask your tailor to remove any outdated details (such as a neck tie), add princess seams to make the blouse fitted, and shorten the sleeves to three-quarter length.
To soften the look of a boxy jacket, a tailor can add seams along the front and back, nipping it in at the waist and a creating a more flattering, feminine shape.
www.lhj.com /lhj/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/lhj/story/data/5TailorTricks_09222003.xml   (281 words)

  
 Official Site :::AMIGO::: Professional Tailor - Maßschneiderei
We provide our clients with exclusive quality collections of tailored clothing.
We provide true custom tailored clothing — handmade on the premises, with an extensive collection of over 500 fabrics to choose from.
We take great pride in providing exclusive, custom-made tailored clothing that fits everywhere, without exceptions.
www.amigo-int.com   (73 words)

  
 IBM Research | Projects | Context Tailor
The Context Tailor project focuses on an important class of context-aware applications that we refer to as deep context-aware applications.
The goal of the Context Tailor project is to radically simplify the development of DCA applications so that developers are not required to have an understanding of machine learning.
A significant research challenge of the Context Tailor project is to design an API that is machine learning independent but that enables access to the appropriate machine learning functionality within the Context Tailor infrastructure.
www.research.ibm.com /tailor   (435 words)

  
 Black Hole Graphics Software - TAILOR
Tailor is one of the most amazing software applications for NEXTSTEP and Openstep.
Tailor is a true postscript editor that was designed to be as easy to use as a word processor for NEXTSTEP / Openstep.
Tailor Office 2.0 is targeted towards the general user.
www.blackholeinc.com /catalog/software/Software/Graphics/Tailor.shtml   (432 words)

  
 Thailand - The Tailor
Our last plan for the day was to go to the tailor close to the flat at the Indra Hotel and Shopping Arcade.
A tailor made suit and shirt for 150$US is a bargain, so Sandy showed us what they had to offer.
We have the fan going all night and it was blowing right at my stomach, it got myself a bit of a pain from that.
www.geocities.com /wand3ls/tailor.html   (1309 words)

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