My main is a Tailor/Enchanter while my alt (who's higher level then my main....) is an Herbalist/Alchemist. Combined with Enchanting, Tailoring is definitely not a money-maker since I disenchant most of the items I make to get the components needed to enchant, which I then mostly only use on myself (I repeatedly enchant my items with +5 and such) since I find it very annoying to "sell" enchantments. I should mention I recieve no support from my guild when it comes to green items to disenchant.
Since I work this way, I'm 4 levels away from my horse and only have 8 gold to my name (and I haven't trained from the master enchanter or tailor yet, which cost 4.5-5 each). This pretty much garantees me a life of scrounging to get the money needed to train my new spells and such.
On the other hand, my Alchemist can make quite a lot of money selling potions (if I really tried, I could make 5-10g a day from potions while hunting and questing normally). This made me realize that I should have gone Tailor/Herbalist on my main to double the herbs I'd find for my herbalist. In doing so, I'd be stinking rich by now.
Basically, Tailoring works great as a stand-alone profession, but it won't make you rich. If you want to make decent money, go with a gathering skill as a secondary profession. I suggest mining since there aren't as many Alchemists as Blacksmiths, so you'll have a tougher time selling the herbs.
Edited, Wed Jan 12 08:51:15 2005 by Venil