is the word tailor used on both genders, or seamstress should be for female.?

Answer 1

A tailor is "a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, esp. suits, coats, and other outer garments." It is not gender specific.

A seamstress, on the other hand, IS gender specific, but is not the same as a tailor. A seamstress is "a woman whose occupation is sewing."

Answer 2

I have heard tailor used for a woman, although as somebody has already mentioned, the word tailoress exists.

However: these words are not 100% synonymous. A tailor is someone whose profession is to make clothes. A seamstress is someone, [presumed, by the form of the word, to be a woman] who is skilled in sewing, whether or not this is [his or] her profession.

Answer 3

The words 'tailoress' (for a female tailor) and 'seamster' (for a man who sews) exist in English, though they may not be much in common use. Seamster is derived from 'sempster', the original English world.
This is what I found in the Chambers Twentieth Century dictionary (British)!

Answer 4

i believe tailor refers to da males and seamstress are for females.. but we always juz refer to females as 'tailors' as well, dont we..

Answer 5

seamstress is for a female
and tailor is for a male