What is "modistes"

Usage examples of "modistes".

Occidental peoples, but peoples called progressive, are subject to the most frequent and violent changes of fashions, not in generations only, but in decades and years of a generation, as if the mass had no mind or taste of its own, but submitted to the irresponsible ukase of tailors and modistes, who are in alliance with enterprising manufacturers of novelties.

We shall commence tomorrow, at which time you will visit Mistress Nimais, one of the few contemporary modistes truly comprehending her own profession.

Circle of the Grand Monarch, into Riquenoir Street, where the greatest of modistes invented and decreed the fashion.