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Wig Maker
OFO Code: 683104
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 683104
- Occupation
- Wig Maker
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6831 · Tailors, Dressmakers, Furriers and Hatters
Official description
Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and hatters fabricate, fit, alter and repair tailored or hand-made clothing; they produce made-to-measure clothing such as suits, overcoats, and dresses from textile fabrics, light leather, fur and other material, or make hats or wigs according to customer’s and clothing manufacturer’s specifications.
More official OFO detail
- Making, altering, restyling and repairing fur garments and other fur articles
- Selecting textile fabrics, leather or fur pelts matching the desired size, colour, texture, and quality of the garment; cutting to shape them to garment pattern and arranging them on pattern according to the design of the garment
- Folding, twisting, and draping material, such as satin or silk, or sewing ribbon or cloth in the form of artificial flowers or bows around crown and brim to shape and decorate hats sewing, and fastening together materials and hair strands to make wigs
- Fitting, altering and repairing tailored clothing, dresses, coats and other made-to-measure garments according to customers' requests making and caring for costumes used in theatrical, television and motion picture productions
- Selecting and modifying commercial patterns to customers' and clothing manufacturers' specifications and fit
- Blending shades of hair to give natural appearance to wigs and arranging woven hair in specified position and sewing hair together to form hairpiece
- Reclaiming furs or skins from old coats, gluing fabric to interior of fur coats and trimming fur garments
- Making overcoats, suits, skirts, shirts, blouses, lingerie, corsetry, hats, wigs and similar garments often to clients' individual requirements
- Making garment style changes, such as tapering trouser legs, narrowing lapels, and adding or removing padding
2. Demand status
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned