1.
tailoring, sewing, dressmaking
The craft of making or altering clothing, or the quality/style of how a garment is made.
この服は仕立てがいい。
This garment is well-tailored.
スーツをオーダーメイドで仕立てた。
I had a suit custom-tailored.
母は着物の仕立てを長年やっている。
My mother has been doing kimono tailoring for many years.
2.
setup, arrangement, styling
The way something is prepared, arranged, or presented. Used for how things are organized or made to appear.
クイズ仕立ての番組だ。
It's a program set up in a quiz format.
物語仕立てで歴史を紹介する。
Introduce history in a narrative format.
ミステリー仕立ての映画で、最後まで犯人がわからなかった。
It was a movie done in a mystery style, and I couldn't figure out the culprit until the end.
The verb form is 仕立てる (to tailor, to make up). The noun 仕立て refers to the result or quality of the making.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 仕立てがいい (well-tailored)
- 仕立て屋 (tailor, dressmaker)
- オーダーメイドの仕立て (custom tailoring)
- 〜仕立て (in the style of ~, formatted as ~)
Sense 2 is used as a suffix: 〜仕立て means "done in the style of" or "set up as." This usage is common in entertainment, publishing, and food descriptions (e.g., 洋風仕立て, Western-style preparation).