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I know this is incredibly knit-picky, but in your glossary you list "Seamstress" as "a person who makes the costumes" technically, this is a title for a woman who sews the costumes. More often than not, a seamstress is doing alterations, not creation. More frequently the person who makes costumes from scratch is given the title of Tailor or Key Tailor.You don't include "Stitcher" in the glossary at all which is the more accurate term for both men and women who sew costumes.
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Hi sus,

I'm assuming you are in the film industry and possibly working in costuming, unless you state otherwise.

George Bernard Shaw stated that:
The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.
Likewise, terminology frequently differs between what is used in the film and television industry and common usage outside the industry.

Currently this is what IMDb has on its glossary pages:
http://www.imdb.com/glossary/S
Seamstress A person who makes the costumes.

Various online dictionaries appear to confirm what you wrote.

http://www.onelook.com/?w=seamstress
Oxford Dictionaries - n. A woman who sews, especially one who earns her living by sewing.
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - n. A woman who sews, especially one who makes her living by sewing.

http://www.onelook.com/?w=tailor
Oxford Dictionaries - n. A person whose occupation is making fitted clothes such as suits, pants, and jackets to fit individual customers.
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - n. One that makes, repairs, and alters garments such as suits, coats, and dresses.

I did not find an independent reference for key tailor.

http://www.onelook.com/?w=stitcher
Oxford Dictionaries - n. A loop of thread or yarn resulting from a single pass or movement of the needle in sewing, knitting, or crocheting.
WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper - n. a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps.
Collins English Dictionary - n.
  1. (sewing) a person who sews
  2. a person who binds together the leaves of a book, pamphlet, etc with wire staples or thread
2014-10-17T02:10:09+00:00
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=stitcher
Oxford Dictionaries - n. A loop of thread or yarn resulting from a single pass or movement of the needle in sewing, knitting, or crocheting.
If you check the head of the Oxford Dictionaries page, you will see that the Onelook page links to Stitch, not Stitcher

The online Oxford English Dictionary states :

stitcher, n.
Pronunciation:  /ˈstɪtʃə(r)/
Etymology:  < stitch v.1 + -er suffix1.
 1.  
 a. One who stitches or sews. In literary use as a general term; in technical use, a person employed in some operation specifically called ‘stitching’ (e.g. in shoemaking, bookbinding). †Formerly also a contemptuous term for a tailor.

 b. In combination with to adv. In quot. fig.
a1637   B. Jonson Under-woods xxxiii. 8 in Wks. (1640) III,   The names..Of hirelings, wranglers, stitchers-to of strife.

 2. A tool or machine used for stitching.
2014-10-17T02:59:08+00:00
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Thank you David for finding and correcting my error.
2014-10-17T12:25:46+00:00
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Actually, I consider it more an error on the part of Onelook. Not only does it bring up a different word than the one requested, it (at least in my browser) positioned the page with the heading above the window, so I couldn't see it. It was only because I could not believe that those definitions were in the OED that I scrolled up to see if they mentioned which Oxford dictionary they were using and discovered the problem.

Anyway, since the OP mentioned being nit-picky, I figured it would be right if I picked a nit myself.
2014-10-17T21:02:16+00:00
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Not nit-picky at all. But, if we're going to be...just so you know, sus...nit-picky comes from picking nits, or tiny eggs of lice. So it's not "knit" but "nit."

Sorry, just picking some of my own (so to speak).
2014-10-18T04:34:40+00:00
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bluesmanSF, I specifically ignored the misused of knit. I did not want to remember the time that my oldest daughter and her second grade class mates got nits from someone at school.
2014-10-18T04:37:28+00:00
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Yikes. We got the dreaded warning letter from school, tbat someone in class had them, a couple times but seemed to have lucked out our daughters never got them!

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