Classifications and hierarchies have always informed our understanding of the long history of making garments and accessories. While specially trained experts represent this technical expertise in the creative field, many skills and tools remain little-known or undervalued. ‘Taxonomies’ offers an inventory of these practices and proposes a reconsideration of certain techniques usually associated with the domestic sphere, like mending, repairing, and altering. It invites us to move beyond the often overly categorical oppositions associated with fashion production and explore with fresh eyes the variety of skills that make up the field – both ordinary and exceptional, now and in the past.