dressmaking
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While female curves and volumes offer her a traditional dressmaking structure, women in the present tense, ego and id, are not part of this vision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Her family was under the impression she was studying dressmaking and following in the steps of her family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Knowles, who ran a hair salon Headliners and had learned dressmaking, made costumes for the group, while Mathew Knowles quit his job to manage them.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
As she bought pearl strings for dressmaking to take to her grandmother in their small Wisconsin town, Janessa Moua said she’s been studying Hmong since she enrolled at a Twin Cities university.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2023
To come to New York City in the 1890s with a background in dressmaking or sewing or Schnittwaren Handlung was a stroke of extraordinary good fortune.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
