Job Description:

• 1) Designs or redesigns custom and commercial fur garments: Analyzes fashion trends and predictions and confers with client or sales and management executives regarding design ideas.

• 2) Sketches design on paper to make or restyle garment, utilizing knowledge of various kinds of fur, techniques for handling fur, and fashion trends.

• 3) Obtains customer measurements, using tape measure.

• 4) Draws pattern on paper according to customer measurements and cuts out pattern.

• 5) Lays pattern on canvas and cuts out material, using scissors.

• 6) Sews together sections of canvas to form mockup of garment.

• 7) Fits mockup on customer and makes necessary alterations.

• 8) Directs workers engaged in cutting and sewing garment.

• 9) Examines completed garments for defects.

• 10) May estimate cost of restyling or of making new garment.