The craft of making dresses

Usage examples of dressmaking.

These were busy days, what with concerts, singing in churches and at funerals, rehearsals, dressmaking and roomers.

She writes that she has found money to set up a dressmaking establishment, and that she is relying upon me to be her forewoman.

I believe I shall come here and buy this shop at an amazingly cheap price, turn these incompetents out on their ear, and make a go of dressmaking myself.

And she seems to have been the boss of the dressmaking concern, done very handsome out of it, too.

Milligan stood before the door of her select dressmaking parlours, meditatively picking her teeth with a needle.

In fact the Misses Graves had already arrived when she left, and no sooner had she gone when Miss Pinhole, who did a lot of dressmaking for Miss Fielding, rang the bell.

Never before has there been such an appeal to the reading public, or such a study of its tastes, or supposed tastes, wants, likes and dislikes, coupled also with the same shrewd anxiety to ascertain a future demand that governs the purveyors of spring and fall styles in millinery and dressmaking.

We discussed fashion houses and fabrics and the frightful expense of dressmaking.

Art said she'd rushed up to his room, donned some of his clothes, and brutally attacked her hair with dressmaking shears, then presented herself, small traveling case in hand, ready to go to the train station with him.