Sentence examples for the dressmaking from inspiring English sources
noun
The craft of making dresses.
Their mothers watch from the dressmaking workshop up the street.
She was just after setting up with the dressmaking, her father still there in the cottage with her.
But while Chanel didn't possess the dressmaking bravura of Vionnet (and didn't pretend to), her clothes invariably projected a modern attitude.
Assuming she exhausts all union factory options — and if she doesn't, she would have to pay penalties — her union representative would then demand that Bari Jay use union workers for other steps in the dressmaking process.
What he came to know about his father was only that his name was Solomon Kunitz, that he was a Freemason, that he was a talented public speaker, and that the dressmaking company he and Yetta owned, the apparently flourishing Parisian Wrapper Company, was nearly bankrupt.
(Johnson) Jewish Museum: 'Édouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940' (closes on Sunday) In the 1890s, Vuillard made some of the most beguiling paintings of fin de siècle Paris: intimate, compact, brushy pictures of his mother and sister in the apartment he shared with them and the dressmaking shop they worked in.
In Paris, where Avedon and Louise Dahl-Wolfe take turns at the frantic job of photographing the semiannual collections of the big dressmaking houses for Harper's Bazaar, he relies on a minimum, or a maximum, of equipment — at times using a Rolleiflex for an entire collection, and at other times renting generator trucks to illuminate Paris for blocks, and police to hold back the crowds.
A feature of Beeton's magazine was the "Practical Dress Instructor," a forerunner of the paper dressmaking pattern.
But Mr. Lagerfeld excelled himself in taking the historic dressmaking skills of haute couture and making the result look like they belonged to the 21st century.
The Parisian dressmaking tradition is still a little corrupt and a little grand.
Brian Wolk and Claude Morais, of Ruffian "Pinking shears are the ultimate dressmaking tool, invented by an American woman in 1893.
