dressmakers

Among the Italian garment workers of Chicago, the average weekly wage of the dressmakers is go cents, but they work every week in the year.

Revolution 2010

The average yearly earnings of the dressmakers is $37.00; of the pants finishers, $42.41.

Revolution 2010

The average yearly earnings of the dressmakers is $37.00; of the pants finishers, $42.41.

Revolution 1910

Italian garment workers of Chicago, the average weekly wage of the dressmakers is go cents, but they work every week in the year.

Revolution 1910

Today, red-carpet celebrities serve as living billboards to promote big-name dressmakers, shoemakers, and jewelers in borrowed finery at entertainment award ceremonies, only to have it all vanish after midnight like Cinderella back from the ball.

Fashion As Social History: What Makes A 'Refreshingly Unpretentious' Exhibit On Fashion? The Huffington Post News Team 2010

But, even if the cards should be superseded, which seems unlikely, there are unruly powers blowing life into storms, disordering sedulous mornings, and uprooting the stability of the afternoon -- dressmakers, that is to say, and confectioners 'shops.

Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911

A goodly number of enterprises, such as dressmakers, milliners, shoemakers and tailoring "bushelers" carried on their business in the front room of a ground-floor flat and lived, often with families, in the rear rooms.

The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress George Edmund Haynes 1920

Martineau, [214] among those who sit much, such as dressmakers and milliners, those who use the sewing-machine, and those who ride.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

But, even if the cards should be superseded, which seems unlikely, there are unruly powers blowing life into storms, disordering sedulous mornings, and uprooting the stability of the afternoon — dressmakers, that is to say, and confectioners’ shops.

Jacob's Room 2004

'dressmakers' syndicate, 'though this case is the first I've had that involved a death.

The Poisoned Pen 1908