seamstress
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"I have been a seamstress, I've been a designer. I've been bringing the costumes - the designs of my husband and my daughter - bringing the costumes to life."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
JoelSamuel's mother Juliet, a 41-year-old seamstress, said: "I just can't wait to see him doing the normal things that everybody does at his age."
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Husbands hired Lange and trained her as a seamstress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
But “Dead Lover” hews closer to Laura Moss’ modern medical take, “birth/rebirth,” and even more closely to Zelda Williams’ cute, poppy “Lisa Frankenstein,” in which a young seamstress stitches up a reanimated boyfriend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
She worked as a seamstress, enjoyed quiet times with friends, and hated the mosquito.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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Sorcinelli, aided by 11 seamstresses, displayed the green silk forming the basis of Leo's vestment for Rimini, rolling out the sumptuous fabric onto a long table.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Time and again, the 11th-Century seamstresses who created it - who are believed to have been in England, probably Canterbury - were so skilled that the story they are telling looks like it's in 3D.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, he spent his teenage years in the U.S., growing up in a community of seamstresses and store owners who always found reasons to do more rather than less.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Federal data show the typical annual wage for a dressmaker is about $43,000 a year, but some tailors and seamstresses can make more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
By the time they reached fourteen, many young people were pulled out of school and called upon to earn their keep as messenger boys, door openers, office girls, and seamstresses.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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