dressmaking

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Weekdays she hummed arias as she sewed for Westchester County suburbanites in the Mattie Bowe Dressmaking Establishment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dressmaking is a science as well as an art and enough can be learned, by those not apt, to save many dollars—especially in the home that fate favors with children.

From The Colored Girl Beautiful by Hackley, E. Azalia

Dressmaking is somewhat seasonal, and the dressmaker must reckon, to some extent, on slack time.

From The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance by Willison, Marjory MacMurchy, Lady

The emphasis which the Academic and Art Departments have laid upon accuracy, careful work, appreciation of measurements, distances, color, and form has been of great value to the students in the Dressmaking Department.

From The Making of a Trade School by Woolman, Mary Schenck

He held his old position as floorwalker and gave respectability to his good-wife's Millinery and Dressmaking Establishment.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Hubbard, Elbert