Авторы:
•Грыгорович Ольга Анатольевна, преподаватель
английского языка высшей категории УО
«Барановичский государственный профессиональнотехнический колледж сферы обслуживания;
•Подолянец Людмила Сергеевна, преподаватель
английского языка высшей категории УО
«Барановичский государственный профессиональнотехнический колледж сферы обслуживания.
The Contents of the Presentation.
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The Title. Slide 1.
The Contents. Slide 2
The Profession of a Tailor. Slide 3.
The Birth of Tailoring. Ancient Times. Slide 4.
Ancient Greece. Slide 5.
The Middle Age. Europe. Slide 6.
The Renaissance. Slides 7-8.
The 17th-18th centuries. Slides 9-10.
The 19th-2oth centuries. Slides 11-12.
The 21st century. Slide 13.
Active Vocabulary. Slide 14.
Some Interesting Facts about Tailoring and Fashion. Slides
15-16. Tailoring and Fashion. Speech Practice. Slides 17-19.
 The List of the Resources. Slide 20.
The Profession of
a Tailor.
 A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters
clothing professionally.
 A tailor must be attentive, accurate, patient.
Usually the work of tailors is connected with people
and they must be able to communicate with their
clients.
Good clothes open
all doors
The Birth of Tailoring. Ancient
Times.
 At first clothes were just a shelter from weather
phenomena such as strong wind or heavy rain.
Ancient people sew parts of fur and leather to
protect themselves from cold and nasty weather.
They use stone needles to do it that became the
first step to creating tiny clothes.
 The next important step of tailoring was
the invention of fabrics.
Ancient Greece.
 In ancient Greece tailors began to work in special
workshops and it was usual to use the work of slaves
for tailoring. A tailor-master was the chief of such a
group and sew clothes himself. The others did the
preparations for the work: producing the material,
cutting and pressing it.
 Despite the warm climate
Greek women wore clothes
that covered most of their bodies.
Greek men wore plain tunics of wool tied at the waist.
The Middle Age. Europe.
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In Europe the knowledge and art of tailoring,
cutting and sewing cloth developed slowly and
gradually between the twelfth and fourteenth
centuries. The Oxford English Dictionary's first
reference to the word "tailor" gives the specific
date of 1297; and certainty by that date tailoring guilds, as well as those of
weavers, and cloth merchants were well established in Europe.
 During the Middle Ages clothing was regarded as a means of concealing
the body and in the 12th and 13th centuries clothes were still quite basic.
Men wore tunics and tights or stockings.
Women wore a nightie-like linen garment. They
wore a long tunic (to their ankles) and over it
another garment, a gown. Women held their
dresses with a belt tied around their waists.
Both sexes wore clothes made of wool but it varied in quality.
The Renaissance
(the 14th-16th centuries).
 With the Renaissance the accentuation
of the human form came. The loose robe
was shortened and tightened, and eventually cut, pieced, and sewn
together in attempts to bring into prominence the contours of the
human form. This was the birth of fashion.
 Master tailors in the growing towns eventually
became responsible for the clothing needs of
the society, and the art and science of tailoring
became a highly specialized, complex, and
jealously guarded craft.
 For the wealthy styles changed rapidly. Clothes
became much more elaborate. Women wore
elaborate hats and men wore long shoes. Poor
people wore practical clothes. If it was wet and
muddy they wore wooden clogs.
The Renaissance.
 The tailoring was respected and it took a lot
of time to get the qualification of a tailor.
Parents give their children to a master tailor for some fee.
They are taught to cope with a needle and a thread. Then
they learnt the art of cutting out.
 After five-seven years they got the qualification of an
apprentice. Apprentices couldn’t
marry but got some money and
could become a pupil of another
master.
 Apprentices got the qualification
of a master when they created a
real costume themselves.
The
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17 -18
centuries.
 In the 17th-18th centuries the art of tailoring continued
to develop.
 In the 17th century in France a new profession
appeared. It was the profession of a milliner and it
was the final division of tailoring into male and
female masters.
 A tailor created clothes for men,
a milliner created dresses and
hats for women and
a seamstress created
underwear.
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17 -18
centuries.
 The arbiter of fashion for Europe of that
time was France.
 In the 17th and 18th centuries men wore
knee length, trouser like garments called
breeches and stockings. Also they wore linen shirts.
 Women in the 17th century wore a linen
nightie like garment called a shift. Over
it they wore long dresses. The dress was
in two parts: the bodice and the skirt. In
the 18th century they wore stays (a bodice with strips of
whalebone) and hooped petticoats under their dresses.
The
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19 -20
centuries.
 The 19th -20th centuries were the turning
point of producing ready-made clothes.
Good conditions for it were created by the Great French
Revolution. At first ready-made clothes were mainly for
men and clothes for women were still created by an
individual order. The first workshops of ready-made
clothes sewed outer-clothes and different accessories
for women.
 In 1820 the first paper patterns appeared that were
produced by the firm “Smith” in London.
 Also in the 19th century the first sewingmachines appeared and the profession of a
tailor became even more popular.
The 19th-20th centuries.
 In the 19th century and at the beginning of
the 20th century men wore trousers, cotton
shirts, waistcoats and coats. But after the
First World War men’s clothes became less
informal and more casual. They often wore
pullovers instead of waistcoats.
 In the early 19th century women wore light long
dresses. In the 1850s they wore frames of whalebone
or steel wire called crinolines under their skirts.
About 1800 women started wearing underwear. But
a revolution in women’s clothes occurred in 1925
when they began wearing knee length skirts.
 In the second half of the 20th century clothes
for both sexes became very varied and fashion
changed very rapidly.
The
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21
century.
 The 21st century is the century of
ready-made clothes. There are a lot
of large factories where any clothes you need are
made. On the other hand tailor-made clothes are
also popular and in any city there are a lot of tailors
who will sew something for your personal taste.
 The profession of a tailor is very
popular and some tailors are very
famous and successful today.
 In the 21st century fashion is
extremely various and every person
can wear anything that he/she likes.
Active Vocabulary.
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Tailoring -портняжное дело
Tailor -портной
Milliner -модистка
Seamstress -белошвейка
Apprentice -подмастерье
Sew -шить
Cut out-кроить
Needle -игла
Thread -нитка
Iron -утюг
Scissors -ножницы
Pattern -выкройка
Fabric -ткань
Workshop -мастерская
Wear (wore) -носить
Garment -предмет одежды
Some Interesting Facts about
Tailoring and Fashion.
 “The supremacy of a needle and scissors”
is considered to begin in the 13th century.
 An iron has been known since the 9th century in
France.
 The first project of a sewing-machine was
offered by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century
but it wasn’t created.
 In 1913 Mary Crosby invented the modern bra.
She used two handkerchiefs joined by ribbon.
The bikini was invented in 1946. In 1965 the mini
skirt was invented by Mary Quant.
Some Interesting Facts about
Tailoring and Fashion.
 The arbiter of fashion in Europe of the 18th
century was France. The main source of information
about fashion was the 1st magazine about fashion
which was called “The Gallant Mercury”.
 Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France,
wanted to become “the queen of fashion”.
She desired to be the most fashionable
woman in Europe and changed her
dresses three times a day. Clothes for her
were created by her milliner, Rose Bertin.
She was called “the minister of fashion”.
Tailoring and Fashion. Speech Practice.
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Remember the information of the presentation.
Speak about the role of the profession of a tailor in
different times.
Speak about changes of fashion in different times.
Speak about some inventions that made tailoring
easier and (or) more popular.
The aim of a profession of a tailor is to make clothes.
Read the statements about clothes and explain
their meanings. Do you agree with them? Give some
facts to prove them.
Clothes do not make a man.
All that glitters is not gold.
Good clothes open all doors.
Tailoring and Fashion. Speech Practice.
 Look at the pictures of people belonging to different
ages and different times and describe their clothes.
Have clothes changed much since the previous times?
To what extent do you think it reflects the values of
different times? What styles (clothes) do you like/
prefer?
 Describe your favourite clothes.
Tailoring and Fashion. Speech Practice.
 Look at the pictures. Role play a possible
dialogue between the tailor and the client. You
may use the following phrases:
-I’d like to order a new...
-I want something for…
-I’d like to choose some fabric
from…
-Will you help me to choose…
-Please, take my measurements.
-Does the colour suit me?
-Can you make it a little bit shorter/ narrower?
The List of the Resources.
 1. Аксенова М, Дукельская Е., Евсеева Т. Мода и стиль. 
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Аванта, 2002.
2. Васильев Александр. Официальный сайт:
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Иллюстрированная энциклопедия моды. - Прага:
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