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Some of the world’s most skilled seamstresses were employed there and were, presumably, paid well.
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Geoff Dyer, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
More and more, that means collaborating with a major luxury fashion house on a gown or tuxedo, an endeavor that can take weeks or months and an army of seamstresses, tailors and artisans.
—Shannon Adducci, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2025
People made or altered their own clothing, and there were tailors and seamstresses in every town square.
—Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
Yet his family resisted their circumstances: his mother, a seamstress, helped other Black members of their community prepare for voter literacy tests, and later gained her son a scholarship at the Tuskegee Institute in 1957.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 20 Mar. 2025
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Geoff Dyer, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
More and more, that means collaborating with a major luxury fashion house on a gown or tuxedo, an endeavor that can take weeks or months and an army of seamstresses, tailors and artisans.
—Shannon Adducci, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2025
People made or altered their own clothing, and there were tailors and seamstresses in every town square.
—Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
Yet his family resisted their circumstances: his mother, a seamstress, helped other Black members of their community prepare for voter literacy tests, and later gained her son a scholarship at the Tuskegee Institute in 1957.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Seamstress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seamstress. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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seamstress
noun
seam·stress
ˈsēm(p)-strəs 
: a woman who sews especially for a living
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