How to become a Tailor, Dressmaker, Furrier or Hatter

Official title: Tailors, Dressmakers, Furriers and Hatters

Tailors, furriers and milliners make, alter and repair made-to-measure or handmade clothing from textiles, light leather, fur and other materials, or make hats and wigs to the specifications of customers and clothing manufacturers.

Main tasks

• Make coats, suits, trousers, skirts, shirts, blouses, lingerie, corsets, hats, wigs and similar garments to individual customers' needs
• Select textiles, fabric, leather or fur to meet size, colour, texture and quality requirements, cut them to garment patterns, and prepare patterns from designs
• Make and repair tailored garments and coats to customers' measurements and requirements
• Make and maintain costumes for theatre, television and film
• Make wigs by sewing and tying hair to base materials
• Make, restyle and repair fur garments and other fur articles

Ways in

• Technical college: Technician certificate: Women's tailoring. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 048 女裝. Tested at grade A (甲級), grade B (乙級), grade C (丙級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Average pay: NT$516,000 a year
• Demand for Craft and related trades jobs is projected at about 1,519,000 in 2024 and about 1,515,000 in 2030. (-0.3%)
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Garment and Related Patternmakers and Cutters
• Sewers, Embroiderers and Related Workers
• Pelt Dressers, Tanners and Fellmongers
• Shoemakers and Related Workers

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Questions people ask

How do I become a Tailor, Dressmaker, Furrier or Hatter?

Ways in include: Technician certificate: Women's tailoring.

How much does a Tailor, Dressmaker, Furrier or Hatter earn in Taiwan?

Average pay is NT$516,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).

Is a Tailor, Dressmaker, Furrier or Hatter a growing career in Taiwan?

Demand for this job family is projected to change -0.3% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).

Will AI change the work of a Tailor, Dressmaker, Furrier or Hatter?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026