seamstress

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Skaters make sure the dresses fit OK before McKinnon and her four-person seamstress team add sparkle, which usually means a crystal count in the thousands.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Originally from a poor and mountainous district of Bamiyan, Rahesh worked for five years in construction in Iran, where his wife Marzia was a seamstress.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

The only person to show up on the departure date, however, is Ada, 22, a seamstress and house cleaner who is terrified of polar bears.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Harjit Kaur, who lives in Hercules city in the San Francisco Bay Area, was working as a seamstress at a sari store for the past two decades and pays her taxes.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

As a seamstress, Betty spent much of her time spinning thread, weaving cloth, and tailoring clothes for the Washington family.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis