seamstress

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

"We have invented Mildred, the rebel seamstress from the 11th Century," she says.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

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

“Good,” said the chief seamstress, and the other five had nodded, a synchronized swimming team of flinty approval.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

Most of the seamstresses have been at the atelier for 30 to 35 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

Two weeks before the show, young seamstresses were crocheting floral motifs in mohair and Japanese metallic thread at a south London studio overlooking the Thames river and Big Ben.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

The families of most of the seamstresses had immigrated from country villages in Italy, Poland, and Russia, just as the Irish had come fifty years before, hoping for a better life in America.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell