How To Use Seamstress In A Sentence
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Women also frequently work in family businesses as shopkeepers and seamstresses.
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The old seamstress ruffled my skirt rapidly.
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Vendors and seamstresses are profiteering from the sale of these items, and those interviewed have said that they are just trying to make a living.
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They are certain to know a few people in your area that are professional tailors / seamstresses.
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The seamstress did a job on my wedding gown
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On the day of the wedding, I remember dressing in that pink dress with inexpressible joy, for it was the moment I had been waiting for since the seamstress had first measured me for my clothing.
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What the little waking dream revealed to me was that INSTEAD of the little allice in wonderland dress I had been planning to go under the FABULOUS crushed red velvet cape edged in wide satin red ribbon and lined with red moire silk; [Did I mention I'm a bit of a seamstress?}
Madrigle Diary Entry
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How many coffee-chain baristas and sweatshop seamstresses assume that voting for lower taxes will bring them security and prosperity?
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Clever seamstresses, milliners, and tradesmen quickly reproduced the latest in sleeves, bonnets, and furnishings for their wealthy clients.
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The seamstress gathered in the cloth.
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The old seamstress ruffled my skirt rapidly.
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But the splendour of the details reflected the skill of the seamstresses who spend hundreds of hours on each made-to-measure couture creation.
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This was also the period in which young women were apprenticed to seamstresses, to prepare their trousseau and be initiated into the skills of seduction.
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Now they are being trained to become seamstresses and tailors.
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Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?
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He is hired to move bales of cloth from a warehouse to a seamstress' workshop a few streets away.
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The profits from these activities provided work for an endless array of builders, carriage-makers, tailors, seamstresses, domestic servants, cab-drivers, and victuallers.
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Madame Waddington opened the Ouvroir Holophane on the 15th of August, her first object being to give employment and so countercheck the double menace of starvation and haunted idleness for at least fifty poor women: teachers, music-mistresses, seamstresses, lace makers, women of all ages and conditions abruptly thrown out of work.
The Living Present
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The cooks, seamstresses and other small investors are stunningly vulnerable to reversals.
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Did it hurl the seamstresses' ringleaders into chokey?
Times, Sunday Times
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The tailors or seamstresses would literally stitch new clothes onto people around Easter-time and that was it for the year.
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Among women, common occupations included servants and waitresses, and seamstresses or laundresses, with smaller groups of laborers and factory workers.
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My mother was a seamstress.
Times, Sunday Times
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She needed to strike the cobra and pin it as a seamstress would hold a hem.
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His grandmother was a seamstress for a living?
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My mother was a seamstress and I have made my own clothes all my life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our goal was to have both elders and young people as part of the core group, who could then work with other seamstresses from their communities on specific piecework.
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Others were seamstresses, barkeeps, gardeners, washerwomen, and confectioners.
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Does anyone know of seamstresses / tailors in or around Boston that do good work on wedding dresses?
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Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?
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Most of the working women are employed as seamstresses in the dressmaking industry.
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She was renowned for her fine seamstress abilities down through the years.
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For now, the one-woman show has been enough, but someday Devangelis hopes to take on seamstresses to help relieve her aching fingers.
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Almost all working free women of colour laboured in towns, as tavern-keepers and innkeepers, petty retailers, seamstresses, laundresses, and domestics.
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Another woman there had been a lifelong seamstress who made elegant gowns.
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Her mother convinces her to give up her ambition to complete her education and take a job working as a seamstress instead.
The Sun
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For almost four decades, seamstresses in this sprawling sweatshop churned out what was once the height of haut couture.
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Workers in this informal sector include tinsmiths, seamstresses, bakers, carpenters, and peddlers.
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Her characters in fiction and drama included domestic workers, washerwomen, seamstresses, and the unemployed, as well as dancers, artists, and teachers.
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Her self-centered mother, Youle, the daughter of an Amsterdam Jewish oculist, was a seamstress and a courtesan of middling success.
Actress, Seductress
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Then there's the cash for seamstresses, cutters, pattern makers, and salespeople, as well as space to house your operation.
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Then, for one night, the seamstresses turn into princesses for a unique beauty pageant.
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There being no sewing machines to speed the assembly of clothes, tailors and seamstresses were economical with their stitches.
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Eighty men and women—leading actors, supporting players, spear carriers and sailors, stagehands, flymen, carpenters and firemen, seamstresses and wardrobe assistants—moved at once, in an assortment of directions, like ants purposefully, preordinately going about their business.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
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They were mountain climbers, musicians, seamstresses, and gourmet cooks.
Archive 2008-12-01
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The storyline of the opera focuses on the heart-rending love story between the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimi, a fragile but resolute girl.
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Here at the Brukman factory, blue-coated seamstresses and tailors are in control.
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Did he enjoy being a temporarily anonymous spectacle, or did he believe these seamstresses and pipe fitters knew who he was?
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I pranced in without knocking to find Mother, dressed in her scarlet finery, standing on the platform the seamstresses used to pin dresses.
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She ran in on the seamstresses and tailors, checking on the clothes.
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She became a professional seamstress with her own alteration store, stitching everything from sun bonnets to wedding gowns to linings for caskets.
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Because of the clothing demands of an imperial court city, slave tailors and seamstresses found much employment.
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She was moping about the next day too, when as promised, the finest tailors and seamstresses were summoned to measure her for her gown.
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My mum - an excellent seamstress - is making my dress (she is equipped with both machine and overlocker).
Times, Sunday Times
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The profits from these activities provided work for an endless array of builders, carriage-makers, tailors, seamstresses, domestic servants, cab-drivers, and victuallers.
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Then there's the cash for seamstresses, cutters, pattern makers, and salespeople, as well as space to house your operation.
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The liaison with the “border crossers” in the eastern city of Gaziantep was a woman known as the Night Seamstress.
Turkey: Ottoman and Post Ottoman.
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‘Course, another reason that couples stayed together in the past was that women actually having jobs beyond washerwoman/alewyf/seamstress - hem hem**/ wise woman that paid a living wage is a comparatively recent phenomenon.
Tax before marriage
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Mary Nicholas, his mother, a seamstress by profession, has always been a pillar of support encouraging his musical efforts.
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He does not know that Harry is the would-be seducer of his seamstress daughter.
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Her mother was a seamstress and her older sister sewed for Catalina.
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I am looking for an upholsterer (for sofas) and a seamstress (for clothes alterations) in MOrelia.
Upholsterer and Seamstress in Morelia
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Clever seamstresses, milliners, and tradesmen quickly reproduced the latest in sleeves, bonnets, and furnishings for their wealthy clients.
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The seamstresses cluck around a dummy, discussing a tuck here and there.
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Your stupid seamstresses want me to wear a corset.
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Most of the working women are employed as seamstresses in the dressmaking industry.
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A good seamstress can design clothes specially for you.
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Workers in this informal sector include tinsmiths, seamstresses, bakers, carpenters, and peddlers.
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His father died young, and his mother worked as a seamstress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four distinctive lines of work are done by those who are classified by the census as dressmakers and seamstresses: dressmaking proper, usually carried on in shops; alteration work in stores; general sewing done by seamstresses at home or in the homes of customers; and the work of the so-called dressmaking "school," in which the dressmaker helps her customers do their general sewing.
Wage Earning and Education
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Especially numerous as seamstresses in the needle trades and in domestic work, women were also essential to the emerging factories.
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I was escaping from my seamstresses again - darn those chattering women anyway.
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One of the dew breaker's victims, an elderly bridal seamstress, explains her secret of life to a young journalist.
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Higher than a street prostitute or a fille libre but lower than the legendary grandes horizontales , lionesses and amazons , Chanel was a grisette , "the young milliner, glover or seamstress . . . who often took lovers to boost their pitiful earnings.
The Enduring Coco Chanel
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There being no sewing machines to speed the assembly of clothes, tailors and seamstresses were economical with their stitches.
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The seamstress had to change the fitting loads of times because my stomach kept bloating.
The Sun
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A tailor/seamstress of not-so-fancy clientele would I expect have been able to whip up simple garments reasonably quickly (especially if you were prepared to pay): plain sewing doesn't take so very long, even by hand, if you know what you're doing.
Kateelliott: Question for the Hive Mind
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He is hired to move bales of cloth from a warehouse to a seamstress' workshop a few streets away.
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Armies of hair and makeup foot soldiers, mani-pedi obsessives, clothing stylists who dress the models like dolls, seamstresses, caterers I've never seen so much uneaten food.
New York Fashion Week 2011: Showmanship by Michael Kors, Thom Browne, Derek Lam
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The ship's seamstress did the fitting, and the garment came out beautifully.
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The seamstress had to change the fitting loads of times because my stomach kept bloating.
The Sun
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The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash
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Handling the train a bit gingerly, I stepped down into the room, swaying gently as the seamstress had instructed, to show off the filmy gussets of silk plisse let into the overskirt.
Dragonfly in Amber
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I got a job as a seamstress (for any sailor is handy with a needle and thread) mending clothes for the tailor.
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A seamstress had to work through the night to get the outfits ready.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was in my teens in the 90's and had all my dresses made by a seamstress, most in the type of patterns you have shown and in beautiful calicoes.
1990's Sewing Patterns
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My father was a musician and my mother a seamstress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seamstress and upholsterer Betsy Ross is believed to have sewn the first American Flag by hand, between late May and early June, 1777.
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This was also the period in which young women were apprenticed to seamstresses, to prepare their trousseau and be initiated into the skills of seduction.
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His father was a taxation clerk, his mother a seamstress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Extraordinarily rare even among the most accomplished seamstresses, chefs and carpenters are those who spin their own fibers, thresh their own wheat or trim their own lumber—all once common skills.
Why We Prize That Magical Mystery Pad
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Even if you have to pay someone - an upholsterer, a seamstress or tailor, a fashion student - the fee shouldn't be exorbitant.
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Mexicans were horrified to learn that perishing inside those structures were hundreds of hyperexploited seamstresses and other pieceworkers crammed into more than 500 illegal sweatshops.
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Both my grandmothers worked for pay - one as a dressmaker and seamstress and the other as a children's nurse in an orphanage and eventually as a small businessperson.
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Workers in this informal sector include tinsmiths, seamstresses, bakers, carpenters, and peddlers.
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Bakers baked their food while seamstresses seamed their cloth.
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Yet the servants insisted the seamstress and cobbler had made them with me in mind.
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If you think "microlending" is just about helping a street vendor in India buy a cart or getting a new sewing machine for a seamstress in Tanzania, think again.
Credit Crunch Gives 'Microlending' a Boost
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At the time she was just 24 and working as a seamstress at Harrods.
The Sun
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I definitely don't like seamster - it's no more inclusive than seamstress, since as far as I have always understood the -ster is derived from sister (think spinster), and it always makes me think of some kind of gang with strange rules and leather jackets (I realize this doesn't go with the first reason but it's what pops into my head).
Quick Fabric Update - A Dress A Day
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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was an unknown black seamstress living in Montgomery, Alabama.
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A cloud of lint hovered over the seamstresses and their sewing machines like a multicolored fog over a river.
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Bapa would give him a khilat, a robe of honor, studded with jewels, all to be made in the space of three days, with a hundred seamstresses employed in the task of piecing together this precious coat.
Shadow Princess
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Usually such female employment was an extension of household tasks - domestic servants, hairdressers, linen drapers, seamstresses, herbalists, and petty retailers of fruit, eggs and butter.
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Others were seamstresses, barkeeps, gardeners, washerwomen, and confectioners.
