Sentence examples for dressmaking with from inspiring English sources

Unlike Chanel, who lived at the Ritz, and Schiaparelli, who partied with the Surrealists, their evenings on the town enhancing their fashion reputations, Madame Grès went about dressmaking with the single-minded dedication of a nun in a turban.

As a teenager, I studied dressmaking with some nuns.

Open image in new window Figure 7 Dressmaking patterns with an asymmetrical front closure.

In a final, colour film Thompson looks closely at the small sculpture the late British artist Donald Rodney made, using scraps of his own shed skin, and held together with dressmaking pins, as he lay ill with sickle cell anaemia.

New this year: trenches with dressmaking details at the shoulder or whimsical sleeveless designs.

She flirted with dressmaking and modeling before tackling portraiture and fashion photography.

"I think my dressmaking provided me with a training tool to develop ideas and then rigorously pursue them," she says.

She was just after setting up with the dressmaking, her father still there in the cottage with her.

Elena Pintus established her dressmaking school Sew it with Love after six years of working from home.

In the case of professional mannequins and others connected with the dressmaking trade it is, of course, essential.

Ann had sold all his jazz records and chopped his ties into bits with her dressmaking scissors, then burned them in the garden.