seamstress

Her father owned a prosperous import business and tailoring studio, and her mother, also a seamstress, was a homemaker.

Plus, having the ability to repair rips and tears yourself instead of schlepping all your stuff to the seamstress or tailor is not only convenient but cost-efficient.

His mother worked as a seamstress in Baltimore before having children and died when Norman was 12.

Cook and seamstress Ada Blackjack was the sole survivor of an attempt to claim the island for Canada or the United Kingdom.

Over the course of 40 interviews, seamstresses, cutters and cleaners employed at Hippo Knitting factory allege verbal abuse and harassment have been rife for years.

Mavis Lilian Lever was born in Dulwich, south London, on May 5, 1921, the daughter of a postal worker and a seamstress.

Los Angeles–based seamstress Erin Pearce makes photographic print dresses of various ‘Seinfeld’ characters.

Keckley eventually bought her own freedom, becoming a successful seamstress and a confidante to the first lady.

Danny, the only child of Su Zhen, a seamstress, and Yan Tao, a chef, lived in public housing on the Lower East Side.

Her mother was a seamstress and her father drove a delivery truck for Coca-Cola.

Mrs. McAllister, finding out in some way that Violet was a clever seamstress, sent home fine linen handkerchiefs for her to hem.

Toward the last it was found necessary to employ an assistant, a seamstress, known of old to Mata.

On the doorstep stood the little seamstress ready to cast a handful of dried peas.

Lucy Watson, the girl whom you met in the hall just now—is my seamstress.

A girl should be at least eighteen or twenty before she becomes a day seamstress.