What is "dressmaker"

Usage examples of "dressmaker".

After all, it looked as if the Cheng dressmakers were on their last legs.

She would save the Lemon Street dressmakers, corsetieres and readymade establishments for after nuncheon when, hopefully, she would have bored the steward sufficiently enough to afford herself some privacy while he tended to his business.

No audience at the Abbey has ever marveled at cycloramic landscape, and no audience and no actress has ever been able to take the joy of the dressmaker and the dressed, of the milliner and the millinered, in gown or hat.

But my idea of a sewing woman is a plain-Jane homebody wearing pincushions on each wrist and who spends her nights with one of those dressmaker dealies instead of a date.

And Micky and Edward had assured him that they were not prostitutes but ordinary girls, shop assistants and parlormaids and dressmakers.

And it shared the same entrance with five other specialized placeslittle dressmaker, a little hat designer, a little travel agency, little boutique for Florentine handbags and Perugian sweaters, and a little man for big parties.

When the dressmakers were done, Tsybukin paid them not in cash but in goods from his shop, and they went away from him sadly, carrying bundles of stearine candles and sardines, which they did not need at all, and when they got out of the village into the fields, they sat down on a knoll and began to cry.

All these concerns were simmering in his mind, like so much consomme, as yet unjelled, when he returned to his quarters to find a message from the lady in question: Could he help her find a dressmaker?

Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives.

True to his word, Charles had a dressmaker come to Wycombe Abbey to go over fabric samples and patterns.

I took the best of everything and paid, and the dressmaker making her appearance at that moment I gave my address, requesting that various sorts of stuff might be sent at once.

The dressmakers were hard at work, the mother cutting and the daughter sewing, but, as progress could not be too rapid, I told the mother that she would oblige us if she could procure another seamstress who spoke French.

Henriette asked me if I had any objection to the first dressmaker dining at our table.

She was supposed to be attending the dressmakers and milliners for a final fitting of her wedding finery.

Madame Tellier, who came of a respectable family of peasant proprietors in the Department of the Eure, had taken up her profession, just as she would have become a milliner or dressmaker.