<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=167462.msg7835249#msg7835249">Quote from: Dhi on 06-03-2013, 19:05:39</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">My (possibly incorrect) understanding is that tailors were mostly men and seamstresses were mostly women, and the two occupations, though they deal with different clothes, are functionally identical. Tailors were just afforded much more prestige.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Speaking as someone that regularly tailors mens suits, historical and modern, tailoring and dressmaking are entirely different skills.  Tailoring requires specialized understructures and stitching to hold it in place that most womenswear does not and takes longer to accomplish, as it all has to be done by hand.  Usually, one either did one or the other, and tailoring was done by men because men only wanted to be fitted by other men. Corsetry is also so specialized that historically it was its own profession.<br/><br/>Of course, this is all make believe, so you can have her do whatever you want ;).