hemmers

“There are clear instructions for guides, hemmers, rufflers, binding and cording feet, sequin feet, walking feet ... and on and on.”

Toys! Wonderful toys! - A Dress A Day

“We give all the children hemmers and chisels," she says in an impeccable cut-glass accent.”

Lady Allen of Hurtwood and the 1948 Children Act

“She made a stubborn effort to exhaust the possibilities of all the little hemmers, and tried the shirrer and the fire-stitch ruffler, and obviously had a fling at the binder and a turn at the tucker.”

The Prairie Child

“The hemmers were two state cops in uniform and a hefty bird in cits with a badge on his vest, and while they weren’t actually touching her at the moment I entered, it looked as though they probably had been.”

Too Many Cooks

“Jonesville that was a sendin 'out agents with all sorts of attachments, some with hemmers, and some with fellers. ”

Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician