Tailoring Classes | Sydney
Designed for experienced makers, this course introduces the core principles of tailoring. Through the construction of structured womenswear and menswear garments — including tailored jackets, coats and trousers — you’ll learn both traditional hand-tailoring and professional machine-canvased techniques.
What You’ll Learn
Tailored Jackets & Coats
Sew a classic tailored jacket or overcoat using tailoring techniques including hand-worked canvas, machine-finished canvas, or fused interlining methods. A beautifully made jacket or overcoat is a timeless garment, designed to last for years, and worth the care, skill, and attention that bespoke tailoring offers — especially when paired with a quality fabric and a considered fit.
Tailored Pants
Sew classic tailored pants in a flat-front or pleated style for menswear or womenswear. Learn professional construction techniques including interlining, welt pockets, a faced fly, and side-seam pockets, with a focus on fit, structure, and a clean, refined finish.
What to Expect
Tailoring is a detailed, multi-step process and most students should expect to take more than one term to complete their garment. This allows time to develop skills, refine fit and achieve a high-quality result. Students may continue their project across additional terms or progress from pants to a jacket or coat as their skills develop.
Our courses are open to all skill levels and held in our Pymble studio on Sydney’s North Shore. We offer morning, afternoon, full-day, and evening options, running Monday through Saturday.
Classes run once weekly for 3–3.5 hours across an 11-week term. Courses are typically priced in the $900–$1,000 range, depending on the number of hours.
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Tailoring | Course Summary
Bespoke Jacket, Overcoat or Tailored Pants
These project-based tailoring courses are structured around the construction of a single garment—tailored pants, a jacket, or an overcoat. Students work through the full tailoring process for their chosen project, with techniques introduced as they arise and applied directly to the garment being made.
Tailored Jacket or Overcoat
Students focus on the construction of a tailored jacket or overcoat, developing an understanding of structure, fit and professional finishing techniques.
Instruction includes:
Analysis of the features of a well-fitting tailored jacket or coat
Discussion of interlining, canvasing, and finishing techniques
Planning and development of the individual design project
Review of suitable materials and sourcing options
Personal fitting of a jacket toile and pattern refinement
Fabric assessment, layout, cutting, and marking
Underlining or construction of canvases as required
Pocket construction and finishing
Assembly to fitting stage and garment refitting
Sleeve setting and fitting
Buttonhole construction
Creation and attachment of trims
Tailored Pants
Students learn how to construct a well-fitted pair of tailored pants for womenswear or menswear, using professional tailoring methods.
Instruction includes:
Analysis of the features of a well-fitting tailored pant
Discussion of interlining techniques and professional finishes
Planning and development of the individual design project
Review of suitable materials and sourcing options
Personal fitting of a pant toile and pattern refinement
Preparation and sewing of sample pockets and finishes
Fabric assessment, layout, cutting, and marking
Interlining or underlining where appropriate
Construction of fly front and zipper
Pocket construction and finishing
Fitting, refinement, and final assembly
Waistband construction and closure finishing