Dressmakers

Dressmakers, textile manufacturers, fashionable and now, due to the lower price, not-so-rich women and the men who liked to look at them all benefited.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

I loved her name, she looked like a nice girl in her picture, I knew where her school was, just across from Dressmakers 'Supply, where my mom bought fabric.

The Lost Children kittenpie 2007

I loved her name, she looked like a nice girl in her picture, I knew where her school was, just across from Dressmakers 'Supply, where my mom bought fabric.

Archive 2007-04-01 kittenpie 2007

Note 80: "Prizes are Awarded to Girl Dressmakers," New York Times, 29 December, 1928, section 9, 2, and Ruppell, The Story of Butterick, section 3, 20. back

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

Claudia Kidwell, Margaret Walsh and Fernandez claim patterns "democratized" clothing, giving ordinary people access to fashionable clothing; see Kidwell, Cutting a Fashionable Fit: Dressmakers 'Drafting Systems in the United States (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979) and Walsh, "The Democratization of Fashion: The Emergence of the Women's Dress Pattern Industry," Journal of American History 66 (1979): 299-313.

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

Note 15: "Prizes are Awarded to Girl Dressmakers," New York Times, 29 December 1928, 2. back

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

Because Dressmakers made clothing for women & children and Tailors made clothing for gentlemen.

as beautifully dressed as birds - A Dress A Day 2007

Dressmakers the world over were waiting for its debut.

Sweet Defiance Lisa Bingham 1995

Dressmakers the world over were waiting for its debut.

Sweet Defiance Lisa Bingham 1995

Dressmakers the world over were waiting for its debut.

Sweet Defiance Lisa Bingham 1995