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dressmaking

[ UK /dɹˈɛsme‍ɪkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹɛsˌmeɪkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the craft of making dresses

How To Use dressmaking In A Sentence

  • The manager of a dressmaking factory noted with amazement that her employees all took Sunday for a gala day and not as a day of rest. A Renegade History of the United States
  • Many Virgos love to do detailed things and are talented at crafts like dressmaking.
  • I have completed courses in dressmaking, cookery, flower arranging and painting.
  • The little midinettes, who get their name from their habit of promenading the streets at the midday hour, are the youngest of the workers in the dressmaking establishments.
  • She neglected her dressmaking business, abandoning her sewing machine in order to keep the actor company when he was filming. YELLOW BIRD
  • Other courses included dressmaking, upholstery and machine knitting, as well as basic skills such as English for speakers of other languages.
  • `I have a dressmaking business that needs me two days a week. YELLOW BIRD
  • Please rest assured that the dressmaking (ironing, hemming) is continuing, although there have been some problems with getting support in certain problem areas.
  • Hence its purpose differed not only from the more general instruction of the usual technical institution, but also from those schools which offered specific training in one trade (such as dressmaking), in that it (1) offered help to the youngest wage-earners, (2) gave the choice among many trades, and (3) held the firm conviction that the adequate preparation of successful workers requires more factors of instruction than the training for skill alone. The Making of a Trade School
  • These designers feel that most of the time dressmaking suffers ‘because of the way measurements are taken’.
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