Sentence examples for of dressmaking from inspiring English sources

The eighteenth century references felt apt: Dior was dubbed the Watteau of dressmaking by Cecil Beaton.

Long Talk story about the Cremins store of dressmaking supplies, corner of 47th St. and Sixth Ave.

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

Sew Over It has its own range of dressmaking patterns and kits for sale in John Lewis.

Mr. Lagerfeld says he never formally studied fashion and has no patience for the craft of dressmaking.

The bulk of fashion manufacturing [PDF] has gone offshore in the past 25 years, causing the art of dressmaking to almost disappear in the UK.

Not talking about it is also a way to avoid a falseness — the falseness of thinking poetic language can be applied to dressmaking.

Richard likens creating a wig to dressmaking.

The great expansion of women's magazines into a major industry may be dated in Britain from Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion (1875 1912) and Weldon's Ladies Journall (1875 1954), both of which supplied dressmaking patterns and met the needs of a mass readership.

The answer to both of these problems, according to Karen Proctor, founder of London bespoke dressmaking service Albertine Burdett, lies in a return to the practices and values that produced the kind of clothes we salivate over in Mad Men.

Revolutions in construction and fabric technology have made it possible for architects to incorporate techniques like folding, pleating, wrapping, printing, braiding, and draping, though none of these are new to fashion, and, with a few exceptions, the designers work with the traditional tools of tailoring and dressmaking, putting them to wildly playful or subversive use.