mantuamaking

For instance, besides carrying on her millinery and mantuamaking business,

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Instead of this, others take pains to have their daughters instructed in mantuamaking, and the simpler parts of millinery, so that the plain work is given to the poor, who need it, and the more expensive and tasteful operations are performed in the family.

A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839

Winship of Rochester sold her "millenery & mantuamaking" goods "cheap for Cash or most kinds of produce." [

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Whether speaking of single women, married women acting under some sort of feme sole provision or custom, or widows, the millinery [51] and mantuamaking [52] trade dominated all other economic avenues open to women in the early national period. [

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Coon of Ogdensburgh, for example, made arrangements to carry on her millinery and mantuamaking business "at the house of Mr. Fitch." [

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