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- noun Plural form of
tailoress .
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Examples
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They decried the "unmanly and ungenerous conduct" of merchant tailors for offering men's work to tailoresses and argued that skilled male workers alone possessed the ability to perform certain types of needlework.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Advertisements for tailoresses 'meetings appeared in the Union, a GTU newspaper and the New Era, a Loco Foco newspaper.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Note 46: The actual threat from tailoresses to the work position of tailors in 1819 is hard to measure, but Howard
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Male tailors traditionally performed more specialized sewing and fitting for men's clothes, while female seamstresses (or tailoresses) made children's clothes, dresses, and simple shirts.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Only 42 women self-identified as tailoresses in the 1825 city directory, but the New York Association of Tailoresses formed in 1831 had upwards of 500 members.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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A.A great many of them buy the cloth, and some of their women are as good tailoresses as you would find anywhere.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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A.A great many of them buy the cloth, and some of their women are as good tailoresses as you would find anywhere.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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A.A great many of them buy the cloth, and some of their women are as good tailoresses as you would find anywhere.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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A.A great many of them buy the cloth, and some of their women are as good tailoresses as you would find anywhere.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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A.A great many of them buy the cloth, and some of their women are as good tailoresses as you would find anywhere.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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