A chalk-like material used for marking alterations on fabric in tailoring and dressmaking. The marks are brushed or washed off the material when no longer needed
If you tailor something such as a plan or system to someone's needs, you make it suitable for a particular person or purpose by changing the details of it. We can tailor the program to the patient's needs. someone whose job is to make men's clothes, that are measured to fit each customer perfectly dressmaker (tailleur, from taillier , from taliare, from talea ). to make something so that it is exactly right for someone's particular needs or for a particular purpose tailor sth to sth
custom made by a tailor, made-to-order (of clothes); made or adapted for a particular person; tailored, created or adapted for a particular situation or need; (Slang) factory produced cigarette (as opposed to a cigarette that is rolled by hand)
emphasis If you say that someone or something is tailor-made for a particular task, purpose, or need, you are emphasizing that they are perfectly suitable for it. He was tailor-made, it was said, for the task ahead
Tailor-made clothes have been specially made to fit a particular person. He was wearing a tweed suit that looked tailor-made. exactly right or suitable for someone or something tailor-made for
If someone tailor-makes something for you, they make or design it to suit your requirements. The company can tailor-make your entire holiday see also tailor-made