dressmaking
Example Sentences
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Knowles, who ran a hair salon Headliners and had learned dressmaking, made costumes for the group, while Mathew Knowles quit his job to manage them.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1934, the daughter of a butcher and a homemaker, Boschet learned dressmaking and tailoring at 14.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025
The Japanese ready-to-wear brand of Mame Kurogouchi delves edgily between past and present, mixing traditional dressmaking with new technologies.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2023
Ms. Hurtado, too, was supposed to be a seamstress but clandestinely studied painting rather than dressmaking when she was in high school.
From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2020
The girls were married, all except Dessie, and she had a successful dressmaking business in Salinas.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
