dressmaker
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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
Santoyo, the dressmaker, said the latest crisis "does bring the community together, helping each other through these tough times."
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
Bailey Dowery is a dressmaker who harbors a secret in 1950s Oklahoma.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
Ovations at the Met were a long way from small-town Adjud, Romania, where she was born in 1965 to a dressmaker mother and a train operator father.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
Each time was like a tiny jab, till Penelope’s heart felt as full of pins as the lumpy red pincushion carried by Madame LePoint, the dressmaker at Ashton Place.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
For dressmakers and tailors called in for late adjustments, that makes their work on the lace, silk and tulle a high-stakes race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
It is also a nod to London's famous rag trade - the city's fabric merchants, tailors and dressmakers who once dominated the area where the Barbican Centre now stands.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
As a finalist, she had to compete against five other teen dressmakers for votes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
People who have worked at the Lido — from dancers to dressmakers, dressing room staff and backstage technicians — described the club with an unusually personal attachment.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2022
Goldsmiths, jewelers, dressmakers, whatever she wanted I found for her, but it was never enough Bear Island is rich in bears and trees, and poor in aught else.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
