dressmaking
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Weekdays she hummed arias as she sewed for Westchester County suburbanites in the Mattie Bowe Dressmaking Establishment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Order Work for Other Departments: Dressmaking: Machine work on nightgowns, corset covers, drawers, combination suits, petticoats, kimonos, gymnasium bloomers, swimming suits, buttonholes, hemstitching on silk skirts, dresses, waists; Bonnaz embroidery on dresses, waists.
From The Making of a Trade School by Woolman, Mary Schenck
He held his old position as floorwalker and gave respectability to his good-wife's Millinery and Dressmaking Establishment.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Hubbard, Elbert
Dressmaking never should be begun until each needed article required for the work has been purchased.
From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz
She used to make a bare living, with her sign reading "Plain and Fashionable Dressmaking."
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon
