dressmaking

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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

It was then rented to a tenant who wanted to use the property to run a bespoke dressmaking business.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 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

Dessie was studying dressmaking, and Mollie, pretty Mollie, would obviously marry some well-to-do man.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck