dressmaking
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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
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1934, the daughter of a butcher and a homemaker, Boschet learned dressmaking and tailoring at 14.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025
His father owned a dressmaking business, and his mother was a homemaker.
From Washington Post • May 14, 2022
Full disclosure: I have a weakness for any film involving tailoring or dressmaking.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2022
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
