| Then, for one night, the seamstresses turn into princesses for a unique beauty pageant. |
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| These days it houses a bottle store and a hairdressing salon on its ground floor, and seamstresses and tailors on its upper floors. |
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| There being no sewing machines to speed the assembly of clothes, tailors and seamstresses were economical with their stitches. |
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| Then there's the cash for seamstresses, cutters, pattern makers, and salespeople, as well as space to house your operation. |
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| Others were seamstresses, barkeeps, gardeners, washerwomen, and confectioners. |
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| But several captains wrote to support the women, whom they said had been seamstresses, medical assistants and even powder monkeys. |
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| I pranced in without knocking to find Mother, dressed in her scarlet finery, standing on the platform the seamstresses used to pin dresses. |
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| Most of the working women are employed as seamstresses in the dressmaking industry. |
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| For almost four decades, seamstresses in this sprawling sweatshop churned out what was once the height of haut couture. |
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| A cloud of lint hovered over the seamstresses and their sewing machines like a multicolored fog over a river. |
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| Especially numerous as seamstresses in the needle trades and in domestic work, women were also essential to the emerging factories. |
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| She was moping about the next day too, when as promised, the finest tailors and seamstresses were summoned to measure her for her gown. |
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| The tailors or seamstresses would literally stitch new clothes onto people around Easter-time and that was it for the year. |
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| Here at the Brukman factory, blue-coated seamstresses and tailors are in control. |
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| Clever seamstresses, milliners, and tradesmen quickly reproduced the latest in sleeves, bonnets, and furnishings for their wealthy clients. |
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| Women also frequently work in family businesses as shopkeepers and seamstresses. |
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| Because of the clothing demands of an imperial court city, slave tailors and seamstresses found much employment. |
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| How many coffee-chain baristas and sweatshop seamstresses assume that voting for lower taxes will bring them security and prosperity? |
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| Workers in this informal sector include tinsmiths, seamstresses, bakers, carpenters, and peddlers. |
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| But the splendour of the details reflected the skill of the seamstresses who spend hundreds of hours on each made-to-measure couture creation. |
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| The profits from these activities provided work for an endless array of builders, carriage-makers, tailors, seamstresses, domestic servants, cab-drivers, and victuallers. |
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| Vendors and seamstresses are profiteering from the sale of these items, and those interviewed have said that they are just trying to make a living. |
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| This was also the period in which young women were apprenticed to seamstresses, to prepare their trousseau and be initiated into the skills of seduction. |
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| Now they are being trained to become seamstresses and tailors. |
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| Bakers baked their food while seamstresses seamed their cloth. |
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| She ran in on the seamstresses and tailors, checking on the clothes. |
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| We have our own workshop where our seamstresses cut to size and stitch lined curtains, passementerie and marquisettes. |
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| Thousands of cosmeticians, hairdressers or seamstresses are being trained in every crisis area in the world. |
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| Inuit seamstresses fashion clothing today in keeping with traditional principles used by their ancestors. |
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| The singer dedicated her new album to the fashion designers and seamstresses of Bamako who create her extensive wardrobe of traditional robes. |
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| This novel tool performs repetitive movements and allows seamstresses to do their work easily and painlessly. |
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| Her thesis looks at seamstresses in New France and their socio-economic role in a colonial society of the time. |
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| Children forced from school because of their lack of status often wind up working as labourers, mechanics or seamstresses. |
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| At the moment this work is done by the seamstresses, but the weavers find them too expensive and too slow. |
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| Our goal was to have both elders and young people as part of the core group, who could then work with other seamstresses from their communities on specific piecework. |
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| The company reacted on Monday, vowing to ensure better conditions for their Cambodian seamstresses. |
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| Her characters in fiction and drama included domestic workers, washerwomen, seamstresses, and the unemployed, as well as dancers, artists, and teachers. |
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| Almost all working free women of colour laboured in towns, as tavern-keepers and innkeepers, petty retailers, seamstresses, laundresses, and domestics. |
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| Among women, common occupations included servants and waitresses, and seamstresses or laundresses, with smaller groups of laborers and factory workers. |
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| What seems clear is that, unlike so many other personalities, she has not rallied a team of personal assistants, stylists and seamstresses to face the challenge of becoming famous overnight. |
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| The Megillah of Itzik Manger is a brilliant musical comedy based on Manger's modern, radical retelling of the Bible's story of Esther through the eyes of a group of tailors and seamstresses. |
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| Rather than travelling inland in summer, Inuit began to stay on the coast with the European whalers, where they were often hired as pilots, crew, seamstresses and hunters. |
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| Organized in a group of 10 seamstresses, overseen by a forewoman who demonstrates steps when necessary and monitors production quality, versatility is part of our everyday experience. |
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| The designer also seeks to challenge a world still using 50s techniques, where a dress takes weeks to make and an atelier's petite mains, or seamstresses, slave over sequins. |
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| The documentary offers a tribute to the work done by the head of the workshop, the seamstresses and the master furrier, all inspired by a shared passion and laser-like focus on detail. |
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| Europeans quickly realized the superior qualities of Inuit clothing and commissioned Inuit seamstresses to make garments, boots and sleeping bags for them. |
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| But this neglect takes a dramatic toll even on illiterates: farmers can no longer identify pests and choose the proper pesticides, craftsmen cannot manage fine handiwork, seamstresses cannot sew. |
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| Nunavut is home to a multitude of carvers, printmakers, ceramic pottery makers, painters, photographers, jewellery and tapestry artists, and seamstresses, and I can go on and on. |
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| Some of those polygamous seamstresses may have grown up with Heber Holm. |
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| As an example, she cited the women who, during a strike in Toronto in 1979, persuaded the employer to remove the shop cameras used to monitor seamstresses. |
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| Studies have revealed that it is made up of the three-piece pattern using stitches and seams that correspond to those used by contemporary Inuit seamstresses. |
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| It took three years and 40 skilled seamstresses to bring back a part of Gwich'in heritage that hasn't been seen in Gwich'in communities for over a century. |
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| She was one of the North's most accomplished seamstresses as well as a distinguished artist whose paintings and carvings are in many museum and private collections. |
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| Modelled after an original outfit preserved in the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, the seamstresses created one outfit for display in each of the Gwich'in communities and at the museum in Yellowknife. |
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| Because many Inuit were employed in the industry as pilots, hunters, dog-team drivers and seamstresses, their families moved close to the whaling stations, where they had access to trade goods. |
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| For example, if in a garment factory, it is observed that seamstresses are mostly women from ethnic minorities, it is recommended that these employees be asked to participate in the Committee. |
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| Participants who are good seamstresses were chosen from each community. |
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| But requests began pouring in, and after being featured in Sew News Magazine in 2005, another 500 seamstresses reached out to Cuppy to volunteer their services. |
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