Originally from London, Alice worked as tailoress and moved to Coventry during the Second World War. |
My mother was a tailoress and my father worked for Johnny Walker whisky, so singing was not really in the family. |
Hoduet neglected his work, but his wife gamely toiled as a tailoress after their child's birth. |
Jean Eaton, 87, a former tailoress, was a resident at the Wemyss Lodge Nursing Home in Ermin Street, Swindon, for five years before she died. |
But at 15, she was apprenticed to a tailoress Miss Fitzgibbon and there, over five years, she served her time and learned her craft. |
The busine of their family home where her grandmother had once worked as a tailoress. |