Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140331010739

The purpose of this thread is to reach consensus regarding the translation of the song's title. The only way to 100% confirm this would be for us to have a cover for the Envy novel with the official English translation on it like it was for the Venomania and Conchita books. Since we don't have that luxury, this thread will discuss it. The following information will be presented below:

Our title for the song is: 円尾坂の仕立屋. The main issue is the translation of 仕立屋.

Individually, 仕立 would be tailoring while 屋 would be shop, hence the popular translation of "Tailor Shop". But together, my dictionary has just "tailor; dressmaker". Hence, this creates the dilemma.

Now for The Lunacy of Duke Venomania, the term is used here for Lukana. It uses 仕立屋 for her occupation, so the appropriate translation would be "tailor".

On the other hand, in the actual song, the line "仕立屋の若き女主人" means, "Young proprietess of a [仕立屋]," so in this case, a "tailor shop" would make more sense.

I talked about this in-depth with Mad and her insight was that there was no indication implying that one of the translations was more appropriate than the other; they are both equally viable.

So what do you guys think should be the translation for the title? 