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Overview
Clothing alteration machinists alter finished garments so fit, finish, customisation and customer branding match the requested standard.
In job descriptions, look for sewing machines, garment repairs, fittings, hems, seams, stock marking, quality checks, customer instructions and work on finished clothing rather than full garment production.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Clothing alteration machinist work is usually close to finished garments, customer instructions and quality checks. The role may include machine sewing, shortening, taking in seams, repairing damage, adding labels or branding and checking that the altered item can return to stock or to a customer.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes sewing-machine handling, garment construction, fabric behaviour, measuring, neat finishing, alteration sequencing, defect recognition and careful work with customer or brand instructions.
Salary context
Salary context depends on alteration complexity, speed expectations, fabric type, whether the work is retail or production-based, and how much responsibility the role has for final quality approval.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward senior alteration machinist, sample-room sewing, tailoring support, quality control for garments, small workshop coordination or specialist work with delicate fabrics and branded stock.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name garment types, machine types, fitting work, customer contact, quality inspection, branding tasks and whether the role handles one-off alterations or repeated stock adjustments.
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This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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Occupation group
sewing machine operator (8153.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/db55bf08-3ad3-4bf6-bf59-7f9f426a6de5 |
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| ESCO code | 8153.1.1 |
| ISCO group | 8153 |
| Concept type | Occupation |