Some offer services such as dressmaking, cleaning, and bricklaying. From Wordnik.com. [Kiva Loans] Reference
Later they tried dressmaking; later still, boarders. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Millinery, like dressmaking, is partly a factory trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
It was almost like attempting dressmaking in the Subway. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
I worked at it for a spell once, when dressmaking was slack. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Costume sketching for making records in dressmaking workrooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Trade School] Reference
Kendall, now, who kept up her dressmaking after she married Henry. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
"Heard you were having trouble with the dressmaking," he announced. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
Among each 100 workers in dressmaking shops about 13 are head girls. From Wordnik.com. [Wage Earning and Education] Reference
"The boys say he's gone into the dressmaking business, or something.". From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference
"So for the present we can keep her to mind Tommy while I am dressmaking.". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference
Alma likes dressmaking, and does it well, but draws the line at baby clothes. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
Mrs. Hall had been a forelady in a New York private dressmaking establishment. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
You are so clever and can teach the girls so much about sewing and dressmaking. From Wordnik.com. [How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl] Reference
But it is also, like dressmaking, carried on in shops and in departmental stores. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
The general scheme is the one in use in moderate-sized dressmaking establishments. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Trade School] Reference
Custom dressmaking is being increasingly limited to high-class and exclusive work. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
The finish of collar, cuffs, girdle and placket are hallmarks of good dressmaking. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
The small and highly specialized dressmaking factory is affecting the custom trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
Women and girls worked together at home, spinning, weaving, sewing and dressmaking. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
The slanting basting stitch or "tacking" is used in dressmaking for holding linings. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
But girls know that they still have mending, sewing, dressmaking and millinery to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
The student may elect trade dressmaking and millinery during the third and fourth years. From Wordnik.com. [Wage Earning and Education] Reference
It is not necessary to have a knowledge of actual dressmaking to be able to do this work. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Trade School] Reference
Tell of some of your failures in dressmaking and give the reasons for your lack of success. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
If Austen wrote about dressmaking, he says, it's because the sisters made their own dresses. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Sense And Sensibility] Reference
This is an age of good ready made clothes and it is also an age of clever amateur dressmaking. From Wordnik.com. [Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest] Reference
The use of the electric power machine in custom dressmaking establishments is on the increase. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Trade School] Reference
The others laughed, while Inez looked very much puzzled at Jack's juggling of dressmaking terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
It is very difficult for her to do this if she has had no training in dressmaking or in millinery. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
Those who are beginners in the art of dressmaking should select plain designs until skill is acquired. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
She couldn't bear aunt and so she took it and I went to live at uncle's and to learn dressmaking, too. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
My wardrobe had all fitted in appropriately to candy and brass and the laundry, but not to dressmaking. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
In dressmaking, unless the stitching is used for ornamental purposes, it should never show on the outside. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
Every girl knows what a help it is to work with others when sewing, mending, dressmaking and trimming hats. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
It is probable that she may be obliged, when she enters a dressmaking establishment, to act as a messenger girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
Mrs. Sikes, whose work had chiefly been dressmaking and plain sewing, found the new field of labor quite irksome. From Wordnik.com. [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference
Courses should be provided for intensive work in trade dressmaking, power machine operating, and trade millinery. From Wordnik.com. [Wage Earning and Education] Reference
Until in compassion they finally moved me around the corner into the dressmaking quarters, which tried Joe's soul. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
(First Series, p. 1) was written, that the word means exactly what is meant by ‘gore’ in modern dressmaking. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference
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