Tailor vs Customize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between tailor and customize

is that tailor is to make, repair, or alter clothes while customize is to alter to suit individual requirements or specifications.

is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

(wikipedia tailor)

* tailour (obsolete)

(en noun)

A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

(Australia) The fish .

* tailorbird * tailoress * tailor-fashion * tailor-made * tailor's chalk * tailor's dummy

* (fish ) bluefish

(en verb)

To make, repair, or alter clothes.

To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.

To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need

* Australian Fish and How to Catch Them , Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, ISBN 1-86302-674-6.

* customise (mostly British)

(customiz)

To alter to suit individual requirements or specifications