AMY SMITH
123 Main Street • Atlanta, Georgia • 30339
Home: (555) 555-1234, Cell: (555) 555-1235
asmith@sample~resume.com
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Objective: Seek the Position of Custom Sewer
SUMMARY: Remarkably gifted Custom Sewer with more than six years experience in provide customized garment alteration services to customers; developing designs and making tailored garments, such as suits, topcoats, overcoats, and other dress clothing, applying principles of garment design, construction, and styling.
Summary of Qualifications
Exceptional ability to be careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
Strong ability to be reliable, responsible, and dependable, and to fulfill obligations.
Profound ability to be pleasant with others on the job and to display a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
Strong ability to accept criticism and to deal calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
In-depth ability to be sensitive to others' needs and feelings and to understand and help on the job.
Exceptional ability to maintain composure, keep emotions in check, control anger, and to avoid aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
Profound ability to establish and maintain personally challenging achievement goals and to exert effort toward mastering tasks.
Great ability to persist in the face of obstacles.
Remarkable knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in making tailored garments.
Excellent listening skill and the ability to take down instructions and clients' statistics.
Professional Experience
Fashion House Inc., Minneapolis, MN 2002 - Present
Custom Sewer
Develop designs and make tailored garments, such as suits, topcoats, overcoats, and other dress clothing, applying principles of garment design, construction, and styling.
Confer with customer to determine type of material and garment style desired.
Measure customer for size and record measurements for use in preparing patterns and making garment.
Develop designs for garments or copy existing designs.
Draw individual pattern for garment or alter standard pattern to fit customer's measurements.
Outline patterns of garment parts on fabric and cut fabric along outlines, using scissors.
Assemble garments, sewing padding to coat fronts, lapels, and collars to give them shape and joining garment parts with basting stitches, using needle and thread or sewing machine.
Fit basted garment on customer and mark areas requiring alterations.
Alter garment and join parts, using needle and thread or sewing machine.
Sew buttons and buttonholes to finish garment.
Press garment.
Supervise activities of other workers in tailoring shop.
Fashion House Inc., Minneapolis, MN 2000 - 2002
Custom Sewer Apprentice (under supervision)
Fitted and studied garments on customers to determine required alterations.
Sewed garments, using needles and thread or sewing machines.
Measured parts such as sleeves or pant legs, and marked or pin-folded alteration lines.
Took up or let down hems to shorten or lengthen garment parts such as sleeves.
Let out or took in seams in suits and other garments to improve fit.
Assembled garment parts and joined parts with basting stitches, using needles and thread or sewing machines.
Removed stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades.
Recorded required alterations and instructions on tags, and attached them to garments.
Examined tags on garments to determine alterations that are needed.
Fitted, altered, repaired, and made made-to-measure clothing, according to customers' and clothing manufacturers' specifications and fit, and applied principles of garment design, construction, and styling.
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