[See -ISM.] a. Tailor’s work; a tailor-made dress or garment. b. Mode of expression or action characteristic of tailors.
1839. Fraser’s Mag., XIX. 121. Enrobed in the panoply of unpaid-for tailorism.
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiog., I. vii. 288. The paternal and inextinguishable tailorism of old Rapid, in a ‘Cure for the Heart-Ache.’
1904. Westm. Gaz., 14 April, 4/2. A short coat with a short skirt and a long coat with a long skirt,… both being popular tailorisms.
