Job Check
Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers
Design, make, alter, repair, or fit garments.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Measure parts, such as sleeves or pant legs, and mark or pin-fold alteration lines.Mostly human for now
- 02Remove stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades.Mostly human for now
- 03Sew garments, using needles and thread or sewing machines.Mostly human for now
- 04Let out or take in seams in suits and other garments to improve fit.Mostly human for now
- 05Measure customers, using tape measures, and record measurements.Mostly human for now
- 06Fit and study garments on customers to determine required alterations.Mostly human for now
- 07Trim excess material, using scissors.Mostly human for now
- 08Assemble garment parts and join parts with basting stitches, using needles and thread or sewing machines.Mostly human for now
- 09Make garment style changes, such as tapering pant legs, narrowing lapels, and adding or removing padding.Mostly human for now
- 10Maintain garment drape and proportions as alterations are performed.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss3%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
9%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 10% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 54% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Measure parts, such as sleeves or pant legs, and mark or pin-fold alteration lines.
- Remove stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades.
- Sew garments, using needles and thread or sewing machines.