Sentence examples for her dressmaking from inspiring English sources

Pauline Trigere learned her dressmaking skills in Paris but is thoroughly assimilated now.

Her dressmaking can be lavish or stark; stately or subversive; tactile but conceptual; demi-couture or, in the case of her recent collaborations with Payless and Target, populist.

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

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

His father was killed in the war, so he went off to study fashion in order to help her dressmaking business (having originally studied law).

She used her dressmaking skills to earn money from outside clients, which helped support the Garland family but also allowed Elizabeth to accrue enough, aided by patrons, to buy freedom for herself and her son in 1852 for $1,200.

To be more specific, the artist uses her knowledge of dressmaking as her method of designing and fabricating these works.

When Sara, who knows how to sew, comes across some spare cloth and decides to try her hand at dressmaking for more prosperous ladies in her community, McClain's attention to the details of this craft contribute to making this undertaking a credible path out of desperate poverty for Sara and her son.

He had drunk carbolic acid in a park in Worcester, leaving Stanley's mother to support her children by dressmaking.

On one wall opposite the paper pieces, the artist includes two cut paper garment patterns that clearly illustrate how similar her process is to dressmaking.

Keckley returned to her profitable dressmaking business in Washington, and Mary Lincoln wrote her many letters, begging her to move to Chicago.