tailor
A tailor helps make your clothes fit you better. Similarly, when you tailor something to the needs of others, you are adjusting what you do to best suit them rather than taking a general approach.
The word tailor comes from the Latin taliare, meaning "to cut." A tailor is someone who cuts and adjusts your clothing to better fit. When you tailor a jacket, you have it taken in to better suit your physique. But tailor isn't used strictly in reference to clothing. For example, a restaurant might tailor an order for a vegetarian by getting rid of the meat in a portion. A teacher might tailor a lesson plan to the demands of her ESL students.
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a person whose occupation is making and altering garments
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types:
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fitter
someone who fits a garment to a particular person
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type of:
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garment worker, garment-worker, garmentmaker
a person who makes garments
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fitter
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adjust to a specific need or market“tailor your needs to your surroundings”
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synonyms:
orient
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type of:
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accommodate, adapt
make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
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accommodate, adapt
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style and tailor in a certain fashion
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create (clothes) with cloth
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