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

This book deals exhaustively with the various stitches and fastenings used in Dressmaking and their applications, Pressing, Making-up Processes, Taking Measurements, Cutting-out; and also contains some notes on Fitting.

From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Hughes, Talbot

Dressmaking is a science as well as an art and enough can be learned, by those not apt, to save many dollars—especially in the home that fate favors with children.

From The Colored Girl Beautiful by Hackley, E. Azalia

Dressmaking: Designing, sewing, buying, machine operating, managing and owning.

From The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance by Willison, Marjory MacMurchy, Lady

The slender columns were defaced by such signs as, "Feather Cleaning and Artificial Flowers,"—"Furniture Upholstered,"—"Plain Dressmaking," etc.

From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein