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
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
His father owned a dressmaking business, and his mother was a homemaker.
From Washington Post • May 14, 2022
Every four years, the Twelve Towns had a magic tournament—the Golden Frog Games, where the towns would compete in everything from toad racing to spell casting to enchanted dressmaking.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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