Every young girl knows how inconvenient it is to have no pocket in her gown, and she also knows how strongly the dressmakers protest against putting one in, because it is sure to gape open and look ugly.
Sometimes, I suspect that the dressmakers are in league with the men to keep us from gaining our rights,” she added.
In this way many milliners, dressmakers and tailoresses become prostitutes when business is slack, and return to business when the season begins.
The proportion of young girls engaged in these occupations was relatively small, the age distribution showing that only about one-third of the milliners and less than one-fifth of the dressmakers were under 21 years of age.
Very few girls who can afford to spend four years in high school ever become dressmakers or factory operatives.
The fact is, my dear lady, that you are very particular about having your commissions executed to the hour, and your dressmakers are anxious to oblige, knowing that you never squabble over the price.
And we may believe that yourdressmakers knew just as little of the poor woman who had used to be the friend of the Small People.
There was only one embroidered in the morning, when they found her sobbing, with your bodice still in her lap, and took her to the hospital; and that is why the dressmakers failed to keep faith with you for once, and made you so angry.
And she rushed out, leaving the dressmakers stupefied, gazing after her with open mouths, and asking themselves if the grand calamity had bereft the poor lady of reason.
The average yearly earnings of the dressmakers is $37; of the pants finishers, $42.
Among the Italian garment workers of Chicago, the average weekly wage of the dressmakers is 90 cents, but they work every week in the year.
I say, Mr. Goslett, that in Canaan City the ladies who are dressmakers set the fashions to the ladies who are not; I was myself a dressmaker.
You shall," cried Harry, "and your own girls shall be the new dressmakers to the whole of glorified Stepney.
The dressmakers get sixteen shillings a week; the improvers six.
Rebekah and the improvers and the dressmakers and the apprentices would have endured the like hardness.
The interests of milliners and dressmakers are very small compared with the House of Lords.
Apprentices anxious to get through their articles, and improvers to be dressmakers, and dressmakers to be forewomen, and forewomen to be mistresses.
The dressmakers of her experience were not young and beautiful; mostly they were pinched with years, troubles, and anxieties.
Do Stepney dressmakers often play the piano like--well, like Miss Kennedy?
You mean that dressmakers do not, as a rule, dance?
Tell me, did you ever see dressmakers happy before?
I assure you my dressmakers are as fond of lawn tennis as the students of Newnham.
An advertisement in London for fifty dressmakers brought seven hundred applicants to the door of the warehouse; and, after long waiting, a police-officer brought the employer to explain why they could not all be hired.
The king summons these French dressmakersto Berlin, and the monsters ask my advice.
There were many tailors and dressmakers and shoemakers and the like, who made things that any who desired them might wear.
The royal dressmakers had the little girl's measure, so they kept the closets in her dressing room filled with lovely dresses of every description and suitable for every occasion.
They all looked very prosperous people with good dressmakers and tailors, and most of them had given her handsome silver wedding presents or checks.
She was querulous and tearful and wanted better dressmakers and a more becoming kind of mourning than it was easy to procure in Davos.
I think it is acknowledged that the French women are the best dressed women in the world, and that French dressmakers are the authority on what should be worn and how it should be worn.
In "Dress" the most noticeable feature is that in a decade of rapidly increasing wealth and certainly of no diminution in the feminine tendency to adornment and display, the numbers of dressmakers decreased by a few hundreds.
What a dance the women will lead their dressmakers and hairdressers for that evening's fun!
Chief among all the Parisian dressmakers is Charles Frederick Worth, who was born in 1825, at Bourne, Lincolnshire.
Lucille said, "It is strange indeed that, in view of the French ridicule made of the English on account of their lack of taste in dress, the best dressmakers in Paris should be Englishmen.
Heretofore Diana had only appeared in black, the strict black which French dressmakers understand, for it was little more than a year since her father's death.
The confectioners were rushing in with more dishes, and the dressmakers appearing to put the finishing touches to Helen.
Dolly, seventeen now, was placed with Miss Pedley, one of the first dressmakers in the city, as out-door apprentice.
Some dressmakers make patterns in this way and do not have to send to the store for a pattern.
It is used by dressmakers for stiffening parts of garments.
Dressmakers would be delighted to have a measure which only wanted laying upon the material, and which would unroll itself and stop short just at the proper point.
He arrived at the very moment when the two rival dressmakers of Heatherington, having appeared simultaneously armed with yard measures and black patterns, were quarrelling in stage whispers in the porch.
I've been perfectly crazy to come, but between dressmakers and theatres and I don't know what else, I simply haven't had a minute in which I could sit down and breathe.
I'm getting ready to make a good first impression on the dressmakers and milliners in Paris.
So I'm having these miserable dressmakers fit those dresses on me until they're absolutely perfect.
Most of thedressmakers around here are well trained, have machines, and go out by the day.
When it came to dress anddressmakers and all the complications of the campaign now opening, notwithstanding her nerves, she could be quite Napoleonic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dressmakers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
