dressmaking

His mother's small dressmaking business, which she'd run out of the living room, had already gone bankrupt.

After that I knit or do some dressmaking and watch television.

Women initially worked from home in industries such as dressmaking.

Since when does wattage have anything to do with dressmaking, one might ask?

Her husband works as a small subcontractor for a dressmaking company.

Went to college for dressmaking, but there we are!

This season she has finally arrived at the place where dressmaking normally starts.

By the eighteen forties, you just had the beginning of home dressmaking.

However, they could continue working in other duties, such as dressmaking and medicine, until the age of fifty.

Aged 12 she began dressmaking professionally by making clothes for the young children of her mother's friends.

She learned early the importance of unions from poor treatment received at her first job in dressmaking.

For those who couldn't afford such dressmaking, there was always underwear.

The master of intricate dressmaking has taken a walk on the casual side.

They had a dressmaking establishment, I was an apprentice in the workshop.

After her entire family succumbed to the disease, she returned to Chicago to begin another dressmaking business.

She spent a two-year period dressmaking with no pay.

Clementina operated the dressmaking part of the business on the second floor.

"It was this technique and spirit that I wanted to capture in the dressmaking process," he said.

The garment looked like what it was: the work of a rank amateur at dressmaking.

I love dressmaking but can't do so much now as my hands are stiff with arthritis.

She supported herself chiefly by dressmaking and continued to teach in secret.

"I only wanted to stay in my mother's dressmaking shop quietly and sew clothes."

There's nothing much in the boxes really, just cloth scraps and dressmaking patterns.

You cannot expect me to allow my house to be turned into a dressmaking establishment.'

"Tomorrow won't do, not with the dressmaking and other preparations.