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• n  the craft of making dresses

• Miami dressmaking employment has risen from 5,000 in 1960 to 18,000 now.
• Said the dressmaking Captain apprehensively, "The Princess wants to consult Queen Mary on every detail before we even make sketches.
• Big dressmaking companies use cutting machines, not scissors.

News & Articles

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• A seamstress’ dressmaking passion
  BouChic, the new alterations and dressmaking business in Yellow Springs, sits at the very back of the white professional building on Xenia Avenue. Inside, owner Zara McCartney has neatly stacked bolts of cloth, drawers filled with a variety of patterns, a dressing room, sewing machines and a chalkboard wall for children.
  June 27, 2013 - Yellow Springs News

Quotes

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• Craig Kallman in New York Times
  We're at a time when we're entertained by air-guitar video games and reality competitions about hairstyling, dressmaking and grocery bagging,Mr. Kallman said in a telephone interview. "Straight No Chaser was this organic YouTube sensation....
• White in NTNews.com.au
  I've always been interested in fashion design and dressmaking,Mrs Whyte said. "I want to make something young and flirty, and something fun to wear. My trademark was always to make you feel like a princess."
• Siobhan Davies in guardian.co.uk
  Shortly after she arrived at Hammersmith, however, a friend suggested she tag along to dance classes in what Davies describes as a "cat-piss-smelling studio above a dressmaking factory off Oxford Street".