seamstress
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As more women took traditional corporate jobs outside the home, schools eliminated home-economics programs, which were a steppingstone to becoming a professional tailor or seamstress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Originally from a poor and mountainous district of Bamiyan, Rahesh worked for five years in construction in Iran, where his wife Marzia was a seamstress.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
Tired of wearing the clothes that his seamstress mother made for him, Strachan raised money for shopping by working on a fishing boat, spending weeks at a time at sea.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
Ms Kaur, who lived in Hercules in the San Francisco Bay Area, worked for two decades as a sari-store seamstress and paid her taxes.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025
She thought of Lady Constance Ashton and her seamstress, Madame LePoint, who could fashion a new gown in a day.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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