| 单词 | seamstress |
| 例句 | History did not record precisely what Fannie said to her fellow seamstresses to convince them to organize and join Ladies’ Local 67 of the United Garment Workers of America. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z There were tiny pins, like the kind seamstresses use to hold fabric in place, stuck to her hat. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He was responsible for about fifty machines and the seamstresses who operated them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z By the time they reached fourteen, many young people were pulled out of school and called upon to earn their keep as messenger boys, door openers, office girls, and seamstresses. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Becky was off in search of a seamstress, so Ruth helped me haul the water to the washtub in the backyard. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The seamstress has even sewn on little crystal beads to represent stars. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Shin had watched him go into a rage when one of the seamstresses in Gong’s stable broke the axle of a sewing machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A purple-suited man saunters in, followed by a train of powdered and prim-looking men carrying notebooks, and a set of tailors and seamstresses who wheel in massive spinning looms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z One seamstress who regularly cleaned the superintendent’s room was Park Choon Young, whom Shin knew from secondary school and who operated a sewing machine that he maintained. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Even on the day before her wedding, the seamstresses took in her bodice, begging her to eat and fill out her gown. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For the reception he changes into a suit, she into a red Banarasi gown with spaghetti straps, something she’d designed herself and had made by a seamstress friend. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Because seamstresses were paid by the number of garments they sewed each day, the lost hour was precious. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The extra labor incensed many of the repairmen, who took their anger out on seamstresses by grabbing their hair, slamming their heads against walls, and kicking them in the face. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When Chucha first saw it, she told Mami to take the dress back to the seamstress and have that rip sewn up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Each visit was presaged by trips to the seamstress to fit a new dress or disguise an old one, and each time they returned there was fresh news about the royal court. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Astonishing himself and his seamstresses, Shin lost his composure. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the past, in the period of his success, two kinds of people had access to all homes and all gossip—the seamstress and the handy man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His mother was a seamstress, his father a white peddler who passed through every few months. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She worked as a seamstress, enjoyed quiet times with friends, and hated the mosquito. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Then she sat down and watched the seamstress go to work. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Qareeb, I don’t know what you think my life is like, but I’m not trying to hire my own private seamstress.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z "Ladies, please. We must proceed," one of the seamstresses says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She wears gloves and dark-colored dresses made for her by a seamstress in Charleston. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “But would the seamstress be allowed to love the prince?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Sanitary napkins were not available, and the seamstress’ uniforms were sometimes stained with menstrual blood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Love knows no limits; it sees no distinctions based on birth or any other characteristic. A prince may love a seamstress as much as any princess.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z By fall dozens of seamstresses were working full-time transforming thousands of these old army clothes into capes, slacks and stylish coats. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Most young seamstresses working with her at the garment factory in St. Louis never had the chance to go to school. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Experienced seamstresses could keep their machines in working order, but those who were new, inept, or very ill could not. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She had raised six children by herself as a seamstress after her husband’s death. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z She must have been the shop owner or at least the head seamstress. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, her head spinning with these thoughts, she passed the church on her way back to the seamstress, and the black iron gate to the cemetery was hanging open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z An old seamstress took a peacoat of mine, tore the lining out, opened and flattened the sleeves, added a collar, put arm holes in and handed me back a beautiful cape. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They also engaged the best seamstresses to make the floating graduating dresses and to cut down secondhand pants which would be pressed to a military slickness for the important event. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At the Randall plantation he continued his enterprise, joining the Sunday caravan into town with the moss sellers, penny seamstresses, and day laborers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The seamstress did not understand what was being said but knew that this was an occasion for shame. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Like Beau, the seamstress Mabel had nursed back to health when she was struck with fever. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “How is that my problem?” the head seamstress asked, appraising us, too. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The head seamstress glanced at us, brow wrinkled. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been a short note from Diana telling her not to worry—that she had found a place in a seamstress’s shop. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She sat on her mother’s lap and said, “My personal seamstress made it for me.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Sissy, who was an expert seamstress, made Francie’s simple white muslin dress. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z No job lasted forever, but before the seamstress work, Mom was cleaning in a white family’s home and, before that, another family’s. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z His secret girlfriend, a seamstress whom Shin had heard rumors about, knelt beside him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z This time she is allowed into America and goes to the place where Gizi is a seamstress for a rich family. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Gisa was there today, aiding the seamstress she is apprenticed to. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z As a seamstress at a downtown department store, she repaired, altered, and steam-pressed clothing—work known and respected by both the black professional class and ordinary workers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps he might have been promoted to foreman, with a special dispensation to prey upon the seamstresses. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The families of most of the seamstresses had immigrated from country villages in Italy, Poland, and Russia, just as the Irish had come fifty years before, hoping for a better life in America. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Masons who worked on the courthouse downstate came back hungry, seamstresses returned from daywork for local white ladies and put on their nice dresses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They suggested tactfully that Old Rit had better see to it that this new girl baby was trained as a cook or a weaver or a seamstress. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The head seamstress balked, looking from Mom to us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “And now I shall go back and show my fellow elves that the child of a clerk and a seamstress is as good and brave as the most famous knight in the kingdom.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The head seamstress paced around Mom, peering more closely at her features—her fine bones, creamy skin, and straight dark hair. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a seamstress on Second Avenue and made Klondike coats at piece rate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She hired three seamstresses to sew her a new wardrobe and included a heavy skirt and thick woolen cloak for me in the order. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The superintendent, a guard in his thirties, wandered among the seamstresses like a buyer at a cattle auction. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Stood firm as the woman poked her skin and squeezed the ends of her hair while the other seamstresses looked on. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The seamstress is looking down and away, leaving us to our private family moment. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Madam’s seamstress came near as frequent as the doctor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Foremen in the factory, who were prisoners chosen by guards for their toughness, generally looked the other way when seamstresses were beaten. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Her second was that the seamstress must be fetched immediately. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Guards scavenged for sex among the factory’s seamstresses. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z At night she stays up late designing and cutting baby clothes to give to seamstresses. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Another member of the Society asked that I stop in before retiring. These women are seamstresses, they live alone.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The women sought work as typewriters, stenographers, seamstresses, and weavers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Fannie heard seamstresses in Chicago and New York City had banded together and demanded higher pay and safer working conditions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z After lunch, I stand on a seamstress block in a slip and hooped petticoat in the Royal Dress Salon. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Fannie reported that her younger daughters attended school that year, that she was a widow and mother of four, and that she worked as a seamstress. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “I was bringing home as much money as my mom, who was a seamstress,” he said. As a teenage refugee, he was the family cook. Now, he’s a lauded chef. 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The ivory silk wedding dress belonging to Greece's Princess Marie-Chantal, and assembled and embellished by 25 seamstresses, is the first thing that clocks you in the face. | 'Valentino: Master of Couture' 2012-11-28T22:03:06Z Her cousin, a designer and seamstress, would be arriving soon to fit her for a dress for the annual “Holiday Hop” at the Beacon Theater on Dec. 17 — the singer’s 12th. For the Singer Ingrid Michaelson, Home Is Where the Art Is 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Back on the factory floor, the seamstresses beamed as Mr. Williams sauntered by. Matthew Williams, Renaissance Man 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z She was a gifted seamstress who earned her family's keep with her Singer sewing machine. T Magazine: Back to Bernalda 2012-11-15T14:01:25Z Twelve of the interviews are with the ex-mistress, Vita Nova, a seamstress’s daughter turned sex goddess, media celebrity and aspiring national savior. Sex Goddess, Celebrity and the Best Hope for Her Country 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z He reassigned his 10 seamstresses in New York to produce thousands daily for health care workers on the frontlines. Despite bleak 2020, celebrities make effort to brighten year 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z A true seamstress of sound, she turned organic and everyday material into some of the earliest modern British electronic compositions. Manchester honours the woman behind the spooky music of Doctor Who 2013-01-10T12:00:00Z Jenden was fussing with the hem and reeling off instructions to one of the seamstresses in Chinese, which he admitted was more about showing off his language skills than bridging a communication gap. ‘I became an icon. Now I want to be an oracle’: Diane von Furstenberg is ready for her third act. 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Born Melania Knavs in Sevnica, Yugoslavia, now Slovenia, she is the daughter of a onetime auto dealership manager and a woman described in differing accounts as a fashion designer or seamstress, depending on the source. Melania Trump, the Silent Partner 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Medea, Greek tragedy's wronged wife turned homicidal avenger, is currently living as a seamstress in Boyle Heights. 'Mojada' at the Getty Villa convincingly updates Greek tragedy to modern-day L.A. 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Gillian Haratani, 43, a seamstress for the San Francisco Opera, arranges her colors in a kaleidoscope spectrum around a hexagonal table, with the most intense colors around the perimeter. Skin Deep: The Lure of Hard-to-Find Nail Polish Colors 2014-03-12T22:31:42Z Other reproductions made for the film usually were executed by teams of seamstresses with about two weeks’ lead time. Jewels from ‘The Crown’: A costume exhibition at Delaware’s Winterthur Museum 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z "I felt excited ... but because he is natural and knows how to be pleasant with people... words began to flow and it was very easy to discuss with him," said seamstress Ana Negru. Prince Charles opens rural training center in Transylvania 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z She had moved in 1967 from New York City, where she had worked as a housecoat seamstress. Ailing, alone and 89. So how could Hilda Reynolds be joyous? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Descended from a long line of seamstresses and tailors, Patrice, 27, grew up in Pasadena, Maryland. Made in Maryland: Aliceanna Clothing 2012-06-04T15:50:02.753Z Like her mother, who toils as the household’s prized seamstress slave, Handful has a fiercely independent and creative streak. ‘The Invention of Wings’: waking to the evils of slavery 2013-12-31T22:20:55Z Last year Vela, a retired seamstress, became the oldest living Spaniard. Jamaican woman, 117, is oldest person on Earth 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Her mother, Maya claims, got a job as a seamstress, hand-sewing on medals for the royal family. M.I.A.?s Agitprop Pop 2010-05-26T04:15:00Z Her niqabs were made by a seamstress in Egypt whom she met while visiting extended family, but many American niqabis buy their garments online. For American Muslims, Choosing to Wear the Veil Poses Challenges 2010-06-11T23:37:00Z Growing up, her mother, Rosa, an accomplished seamstress, made all her clothes, and then her dance costumes. Rita Moreno: Pathbreaker, Activist and ‘A Kick in the Pants’ 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z I have a team of six, including a seamstress, cutter, patternmaker and head of the studio. Dressing Brides for ‘Their Red-Carpet Moment’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The kingdom’s peaceful equilibrium is shattered when Fred’s chief seamstress dies of overwork, an unfortunate event with snowballing consequences that “history books of Cornucopia would later record as the beginning of all the troubles.” J.K. Rowling’s New Non-Potter Children’s Book 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z The seamstress said she first learned to sew by sitting on the floor of her aunt’s studio in Puerto Rico, watching her create beautiful pieces. DIY fashion influencer Mimi G overcame homelessness to build a thriving business 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Of course it was too small, so I had to get the seamstresses to take it out. Kiss: monsters of rock 2012-07-12T19:30:00Z Although I like going to fashion shows, and appreciate the dedication of seamstresses and designers alike, I am not the right audience for most of what I see. | Slave No More 2014-02-06T16:00:26Z Suffering from a failing heart, Caridad removes herself from her exalted position and reinvents herself as a seamstress. America Is Obsessed With Cuba. But What Do We Know About Its Citizens? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z “All the seamstresses ran into the room and started freaking out. ‘ ‘We Fascinated Them’: Shailah Edmonds on a Golden Era of Black Models 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Her soldier father was killed in the second world war and her mother was a locally renowned seamstress. Elzbieta Czyzewska obituary 2010-07-07T17:07:00Z His mother taught school and worked as a seamstress. Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z It leads his family members to take low-paying jobs as seamstresses, shoe shiners and carpenters. Comedy on Mexico income gap a big screen hit 2013-04-05T15:14:08Z But her combination of reticence and sensuality work well for Mimi, Puccini’s ailing bohemian seamstress whose outer meekness barely disguises her inner longing. Music Review | 'La Boh?me: The Gang?s All Here: Mimi, Rodolfo and Zeffirelli 2010-02-22T06:01:00Z Separately, inside the besieged city, the orphaned seamstress Anna has developed herself a side hustle as a cat burglar to raise money for her sick sister, Maria. From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Her mother worked as a seamstress for the Navy base in San Diego, among other employers, and a childhood dream of Ms. López’s was to become a costume designer. Yolanda López, Artist Who Celebrated Working-Class Women, Dies at 78 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z Anna was a factory seamstress and took in additional sewing to support the family. Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Beatriz, who toils as a seamstress at a garment factory, thinks Ana is supposed to help alleviate the financial stress. When ‘Gentefied’ Straddles More Than One Culture, It Feels Real 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z The seamstresses play as much of a role in the film as Simons. 'Dior and I' goes inside design house 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z A year later, a seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to white passengers on a Montgomery bus. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z But while they dream up the costumes, it is the fabricators — the tailors and seamstresses and embroiderers and weavers and beaders and pleaters and painters and milliners and glovers and cobblers — who actually build them. Velvet, Organza and Vipers: Stage Costumes Dazzle 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z The cost of making the face coverings, which includes materials as well as the seamstress’ labor, has come from personal donations. Christian Siriano has become the face of a fashion industry that once dismissed him 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z His mother picked up occasional jobs as a seamstress. Jack Masey, Whose Exhibitions Showed American Culture to World, Dies at 91 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The show was inspired by Rodriguez’s boyhood memories of his mother’s work as a seamstress, making wedding gowns and quinceañera dresses. Burgers’ ‘Eternalism’ : flower power with philosophical twist 2013-01-10T22:12:03Z Her mother was a physical therapist before becoming a stay-at-home parent, and now is an independent seamstress and a volunteer emergency medical technician in Ho-Ho-Kus. Caroline Sonett, Isaac Assor 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Esi’s parents are faring poorly, subsisting on the meagre earnings Ama brings in as a seamstress, when, one day, Kwabena turns up with brash promises of a better life in the city. “The Burial of Kojo,” Reviewed: A Boldly Lyrical Portrait of a Young Ghanaian Girl 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The last of seven siblings, her father was a longshoreman and her mother was a seamstress. Catching Up With the Matriarch Behind Beyoncé and Solange 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Her father, Phillip, a typesetter for the local newspaper, and her mother, Esther, a seamstress, were both deaf. Phyllis Frelich, Tony-Winning Actress and Deaf Activist, Dies at 70 2014-04-15T00:26:30Z The labour was seven hours; her mother, Natalie, 24, a seamstress, was stoic throughout, helped by two midwives in pale pink scrubs. 'We have a shower for pain relief': can Haiti's young midwives save a new generation? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Angela Davis Johnson got a similar response when she showed curators her paintings, which almost always feature black women and fabrics to pay homage to her seamstress mother. Overlooked in Atlanta, Black Female Artists Try Miami 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z On those days the seamstress hides Zuhour and her children in her sewing room — the only place her father never sets foot. Like a Schindler for Iraq, This Unlikely War Hero Freed Women From ISIS 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z He was a child when his father died, and his mother was a seamstress and domestic worker. Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z In “Tiger Mending,” an expert seamstress repairs animals that have been torn along their stripes. Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown,’ and More 2013-08-28T19:05:14Z There are no longer 20 seamstresses ready to nip and tuck in an emergency. Rizik’s has been dressing D.C. women since Teddy Roosevelt was president. It’s not stopping now. 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z After the announcement, the seamstresses at the Lejaby plant in the rural town of Yssingeaux, in central France, took action to save their jobs. | Made in France 2012-04-24T17:30:07Z Set in 1905 New York, the story follows an African-American seamstress who through letter writing courts a laborer working on the Panama Canal. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This February 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z She knows this firsthand, in part because of her background in dance — she’s been asked to teach countless wedding-party members — and her abilities as a seamstress. Seattle improv troupe to stage real ‘Wedding Horror Stories’ 2013-07-04T00:17:56Z Whitten was born in Bessemer, Ala., the son of a seamstress and a coal miner who died when he was a child. Perspective | Jack Whitten: once neglected artist lately the toast of the art world 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Overnight, inspired by Micheline, Clarence redoes his entire collection and sends his houseful of female cutters, seamstresses, administrators, and secretaries into a frenzy of activity. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z In the two months of fittings before most clients’ weddings at Kleinfeld Bridal in New York, seamstresses are kept busy taking in gowns. Field Notes: Losing Weight in Time for the Wedding 2012-04-13T18:21:53Z “You have left your troubles behind,” Mr. Sarkozy assured the seamstresses. | Made in France 2012-04-24T17:30:07Z That is going to cost the jobs of countless costume designers, seamstresses, ironers, dry cleaners. Baring All on ‘Dating Naked’ and ‘Skin Wars’ 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z My mother worked so hard for a penny-a-dress as a seamstress to try and put food on the table for us all. Tony Bennett: my greatest mistake 2012-06-15T22:01:33Z The seamstress knew all the right spots to give a little so as not to make the corset excruciating. Holy Cottontail! The Playboy Club Is Back Again 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The daughter of a seamstress and a carpenter, Clarke sees playing Caroline as “a chance to honor all maids, all women, all single mothers, all Black women trying to make their way through this life.” For Sharon D Clarke, a ‘Big Sing’ and a Big Broadway Moment 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z “I do not really belong to a particular school. I like to say I followed my mother, who was a seamstress. She used to do fittings. And I do fittings.” Podcast & Carol & Ted & Alice 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z If you find something you like, you can work with an on-site seamstress to get the right fit. Insider's Guide to Athens 2012-08-07T02:20:04.667Z Mr. White asked the seamstress to pin them at the middle of her thigh. Baby Tate Turns Hate Into Positivity 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z She married her husband Raymond Parks in 1932 and worked as a seamstress before she became a member of the Montgomery National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Parks Service reports. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Headlines around the country declared a rush and people promptly quit their jobs — doctors, cops, seamstresses, the mayor of Seattle — to head north. 125 years after gold was discovered in the Yukon, we ventured up to Dawson City. Here’s what it looks like now 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Her mother was a seamstress who clothed her daughter impeccably from the day she was born. A New Book Brings Melania Trump Into (Slightly) Better Focus 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Her stylist, Todd White, was working alongside a seamstress, and a photographer buzzed around too, all of them like bees swarming their queen. Baby Tate Turns Hate Into Positivity 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z "It's heaven," she declares, and a few scenes later, Mrs. Harris, a "capable seamstress," is living the dream and sewing buttons alongside the other workers. Lesley Manville is endearing in "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," a feel-good couture fairy tale 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z As the daughter of a seamstress and the granddaughter of a carpenter, it’s rare I buy anything without trying to make it myself first. This app takes the cake 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z I wondered if the seamstresses needed eyeball replacements at the age of 25, like ballerinas need new hip joints. | Soigne K : Cue the Sitar, Cast the Petals 2010-12-01T20:25:00Z Her father was a tailor, and her mother, a nurse and seamstress. Fighting Forgetting, With a Venice Biennale Win 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z They are but a fraction of the lighting technicians, manicurists, photographers, caterers, florists, drivers, security guards, seamstresses, dressers and musicians whose labor creates the dream. The Unsung Heroes of Fashion, Now Mostly Unemployed 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Her mother, the child of a Maine janitor and seamstress, became known as "the godmother of the Pell Grants," which she helped develop as vice president of what is now the College Board. Susan Rice has spent her career fighting off detractors: ‘I inadvertently intimidate some people, especially certain men’ 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Her father abandoned the family when she was a baby and she was raised by her mother, a seamstress; her older sister, a schoolteacher; and her grandmother. Move Over, Pablo Neruda. Young Chileans Have a New Favorite Poet. 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z The bride’s father was a horse trainer in Dawson, Ga. Her mother was a seamstress at All Mark Mills, a clothing manufacturer that was in Dawson. In Final Analysis, 2 Biostatisticians Are a Match 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Then there’s the slightly more sophisticated “The Time in Between,” which starts in the 1930s and follows a seamstress who falls into a life of adventure and espionage. How Do I Fill the ‘Succession’-Size Hole in My Sunday? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Born in Ghana, Mr. Enninful was raised by his seamstress mother in the Ladbroke Grove area of London, alongside five siblings. Edward Enninful Is Named Editor in Chief at British Vogue 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Santiago’s mother worked as a seamstress and her father as a carpenter to support their 11 children. A Tale Scooped From the Cauldron of History 2011-07-24T17:41:02Z Weeks before the ceremony, Veda Ambeau, a seamstress and the owner of Shirley’s Designs & Alterations in Oakland, came to the rescue and completed the final adjustments. On Paper, They Were All Wrong. But in Time, Just Right. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Designers: I have all my clothes made by the same seamstress that made folk dresses for me as a child. | Milena Muzquiz 2011-01-19T14:00:30Z People began picking over the discrepancies between her self-described background as the daughter of a Neapolitan seamstress, and the conflicting portrait that Mr. Gatti put forth. ‘Ferrante Fever’ Continues to Spread 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Both are set in Naples, narrated by the guilt-ridden children of violent painter fathers who beat their seamstress wives, and some descriptions are strikingly similar. Who Is the Real Elena Ferrante? Italian Journalist Reveals His Answer 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Hard-working seamstresses, they live only in each other’s orbit, rendering love an abstraction “over there, in the impossible beyond: tenderness was there, in the heavens.” Review: New Books by Anna Gavalda, Daniel Sada, George Singleton and Others 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Alice is welcomed by the pastor and his wife, picks up jobs as a seamstress and a waitress and begins a romance with Raymond Campbell, a son of one of the town’s founding families. Overlooked Black History, in Three New Novels 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Her parents — her father, Mark Waldrop, is a chief operating officer for a health care company in Georgia — helped her establish a business, contract local seamstresses, create a Web site and hire a publicist. The Kiddie Couturiers 2011-02-23T21:07:10Z “I realized I could have gone to any of the other designers or an ordinary seamstress,” Mr. Williams said. Hip-Hop Welcomes Veteran Fashion Designer Mark McNairy 2014-03-12T23:01:45Z He relies on a legion of seamstresses who work from home. All Hail the Humble Espadrille! 2010-08-16T13:10:00Z A white shirt that was made in America by fairly paid seamstresses. The Olsen twins’ label The Row is constantly on the hunt for perfection. And perfection is very expensive. 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z In the 1800s, a young seamstress is abandoned and taken in by a traveling theater company based on a flatboat. New in Paperback: ‘Notes on a Foreign Country,’ ‘The Seventh Function of Language’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The groom’s mother, a retired seamstress, is the former owner of La Rosita, a thrift shop in Los Angeles. A Food Writer Gives His Bride ‘Four Stars’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Both his parents worked in the clothing industry, his father as a maker of mannequins, his mother as a seamstress. Review: A Nuyorican Artist’s Career Survey: Loud, Proud and Timely 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z “Comrades, today our workshop beat the government quota with 150 percent!” a seamstress announces at the garment factory. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Instead of buying sufficient warm clothes, he brought aboard an Inuit seamstress named Kiruk to sew them while they sailed. Arctic Explorers Trapped in a Frozen Hell 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Not to mention the shabby way he treated the loyal Bob Hobbitt, whose ailing little son, Puny Pete, longed to leave life as a cabin boy for a career as a seamstress. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 26-Jan. 1 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z As large stores like Lord & Taylor, B. Altman and Brooks Brothers proliferated in the city, the one-on-one relationship between seamstresses and their clients crumbled. Stitch by Stitch and Block by Block 2011-02-16T21:58:35Z Her mother, who worked as a seamstress, was resourceful at home, often providing for her children’s needs by recycling scraps of discarded materials. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z A seamstress picks a bundle and does all the sewing on a vintage Pfaff sewing machine. What’s New at Langlitz Leathers? Nothing 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Then came the most famous knock on a door in all of opera, as Mimì, the fragile, doomed seamstress, arrived to ask the poet Rodolfo to light her candle. 24 Years Later, Roberto Alagna Steps Back Into ‘Bohème’ at the Met 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z “I live here,” she says to a client who might otherwise have assumed she was just another seamstress. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z On the second floor, models mixed with seamstresses lurched over their sewing machines. Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci Is the King of Fashion Week 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z To cut off the Confederate Army from access to new uniforms, tents and bedding, the Union troops even kidnapped female knitters, weavers and seamstresses and deported them northward. Antiques: ‘Homefront & Battlefield’ at American Textile History Museum 2012-06-28T21:22:20Z Among the more than 2,000 items of clothing and accessories were sparkling evening gowns, colorful Broadway costumes and a simple georgette dress made by a seamstress who would change history: Rosa Parks. A humble skirt worn by an enslaved child finds a place in history 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Moments before, a seamstress had cinched the boned shell of a black leotard up and over Ms. Oliver’s hip line. Holy Cottontail! The Playboy Club Is Back Again 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Historians know that she was a seamstress and worked for a time as Jefferson’s chambermaid. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Born a Lithuanian Jew, she fled forced marriage to the US when aged only 16, and took work as a seamstress and later a nurse. Emma Goldman: a thoroughly modern anarchist 2010-10-06T12:00:00Z For starters, the contestants don’t have to sew things and are instead assigned seamstresses to assemble garments. ‘Making the Cut’ Is New, but the Pattern Is Familiar 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z She found evidence of how valuable seamstresses were in the slave trade. ‘Roots,’ Remade for a New Era 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Both women said they knew at least 15 other seamstresses in their area who produced luxury fashion garments on a piece-rate basis for local factories from their homes. Inside Italy’s Shadow Economy 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross invited potential customers to see her practical checked linen bedding, as an example of her varied needlework offerings in addition to her famous American flags. Museums Are Trying New Things in the Bedroom 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z A staff of three — a seamstress and patternmaker, a studio manager/production person and an assistant — all multitask, she said. Front Row: Chirlane McCray, the Wife of Bill de Blasio, Is a Fan of Anni Kuan 2013-12-24T22:24:48Z Her character was a seamstress hiding her interpreter brother from the Taliban during a major withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Marjan Neshat on Her ‘Kind of Miraculous Season’ Onstage 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z “She was a seamstress for a department store,” says Spencer Crew, guest curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. We don’t know what Rosa Parks wore the night she was arrested. But she was carrying this dress. 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The same obliviousness to detail was also what made her a questionable seamstress, framer, and cook. The Battle Hymn of the Papier-Mâché Mother 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z When Charles Gaines was in elementary school in Newark, N.J., one of his teachers noticed that this son of a construction worker and seamstress was skilled at drawing. How the dense grids of artist Charles Gaines took the ego out of art 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z By age 6, Ms. Riva wanted to be an actress, but her working-class parents discouraged her aspirations and she became an apprentice to a seamstress. Emmanuelle Riva, oldest lead actress to be nominated for Academy Award, dies at 89 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z His team of two patternmakers and 10 seamstresses transform the raw materials into costumes by Friday. Magic behind custom-made costumes for `Dancing' 2011-03-21T14:02:18Z She was believably girlish as the sickly seamstress, offering an affecting interpretation that avoided consumptive clichés like excessive coughing and other stock gestures. Music Review: ?La Boh?me? at the Met: Life in Zeffirelli Style - Review 2011-11-20T22:51:46Z But what can’t be replaced is the craft and human interaction: draping, looking at fabric and embroidery swatches, working with the patternmakers and seamstresses. When Black Tie Is Replaced by Plaid Pajamas 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z There are printers, publication directors, database managers and cooks; there are four organists, a liturgy directress, a bursar and more than a few seamstresses. Growing Pains for the Dominican Nuns of Summit 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Next Thing She is starting a co-op sewing project in Chicago to help immigrant seamstresses team up with small-scale fashion houses. A Muslim Fashion Blogger With a Fierce Message 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z His father worked in the home-heating business and his mother was a seamstress. Tibor Rudas, music impresario who furthered Pavarotti’s career, dies at 94 Mr. Enninful’s mother, Grace, a seamstress from Ghana, was horrified at first, but relented. Up Close: Edward Enninful: An Image Maker Who Gets the Picture 2012-05-17T20:22:58Z Each seamstress manufactures one or two jackets a day, depending on the complexity of the pattern and the customer’s options. What’s New at Langlitz Leathers? Nothing 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Even with the help of Rightfully Sewn, a charity that trains and places refugee seamstresses, Ms. Choules can’t find enough skilled workers. The Leotard Queen 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z A good, close look was all it took to confirm that outfits, born of the creative genius of designer Tisci and the skill of his seamstresses and embroiderers, were wearable art. Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh Chanel! 2010-07-06T22:50:00Z Some are gilded poster-boys, some are Marxist militants, and some are lowly seamstresses, supposed sitcom fodder, hunched over their Singer sewing machines,expecting an honest day's wage for an honest day's work. Made in Dagenham 2010-09-20T23:36:00Z Why do we believe a dress that took one seamstress thousands of hours to embroider is worth more than a dress that took thousands of hours to 3D print? Brooklyn’s Wearable Revolution 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z To help pay for the rest of her education, at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Washington, she worked a variety of jobs — including as a seamstress and a chambermaid. Beverly Cleary on turning 100: Kids today ‘don’t have the freedom’ I had 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z At the recommendation of her photographer, she asked a seamstress to sew a patch of one of her father’s T-shirts into her wedding gown. How the Dearly Departed Usher Couples Down the Aisle 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z She and her husband and stepson lived in England, Japan, and Wisconsin, where she worked as a seamstress. Postscript: Lindsley Cameron Miyoshi 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Her maternal great-grandparents were a pattern cutter on the Lower East Side and a seamstress. Those Iron Scorch Marks Are by Design 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z She hired a seamstress to graft the fragile needlework onto a new cape, a surgery that took several days. How Jacqueline Durran, the “Little Women” Costume Designer, Remixes Styles and Eras 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z For instance Harriet Jacobs, a seamstress from North Carolina, sold her wares while on the run for years “from an oppressive master,” Katie Knowles writes in the encyclopedia’s entry on clothing and footwear. Antiques: The Everyday Lives of American Slaves 2011-01-06T22:27:39Z She personally housed 600 Belgian orphans, organized workshops for unemployed seamstresses and opened a home for tubercular children. The Age of ‘The Age of Innocence’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Somehow, designer Riccardo Tisci and his atelier of seamstresses and embroiderers turned thousands of tiny little iridescent beads into sculptural birds of paradise, the tropical flowers blooming across the midriff of a tank dress. Call the chauffeur: Paris designers ban walking 2011-07-06T00:58:11Z But after 20 or 30 years, my seamstresses know what I want.” In Venice, Capturing the Brio of Festivities Past 2013-04-23T05:49:12Z Many tailors and seamstresses will hem curtains, too. Unsure of how to treat your windows? Experts offer advice to dress them in style. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Don’t ask a seamstress to rebuild a jacket that is obviously unflattering or is several sizes away from fitting properly. Skip the ‘fast fashion,’ and other first-job wardrobe advice from an expert 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The daughter of an enslaved healer and seamstress and her White master, Pheby Delores Brown grows up in a kind of in-between state. Review | Sadeqa Johnson’s ‘Yellow Wife’ chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman’s survival in the antebellum South 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z “My clothes fit tight, but my heart need a seamstress.” Snapshots of the Many Megan Thee Stallions 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z After running away, terrified of armed patrols sent to round her and her children up, Zuhour enters a sewing shop situated inside a house, begging the seamstress there to give them shelter. Like a Schindler for Iraq, This Unlikely War Hero Freed Women From ISIS 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z You can start with his early “Flag” paintings and his debt to the seamstress Betsy Ross. All the World in a ‘Slice’ of Art 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z She didn’t follow that advice, but considered working as a seamstress until the composer and theorist George Russell asked to record one of her tunes on an album. Carla Bley, Still Improvising and Inspiring as She Turns 80 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z They're couture pieces, cut and assembled by veteran costumers and seamstresses from fabrics selected specifically for each performance. Magic behind custom-made costumes for `Dancing' 2011-03-21T14:02:18Z His mother was a seamstress, his father a tailor. Art Review: Renoir?s Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection 2012-02-09T13:00:00Z Alfaro wrote "Mojada," a new play rather than a refinement of "Bruja," imagining Medea as a magically gifted seamstress instead of a healer, and setting it in Chicago's Mexican American immigrant community. Luis Alfaro's 'Mojada' draws on Greek tragedy, Mexican American immigration 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z His father was frequently unemployed, and his mother worked in a restaurant and as a seamstress. Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Master, Dies at 93 2013-01-21T16:04:35Z She dropped out and began working as a seamstress for $1.50 an hour. No place like home: America’s eviction epidemic 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z She began performing in regional theater, but also trained as a seamstress before she entered acting school in Paris in her mid-20s. Emmanuelle Riva, Star of ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ Dies at 89 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Later, they are recruited as seamstresses, as witnesses, as a bailiff and a miscreant. Review: In ‘Ye Bear & Ye Cubb,’ Colonial America Takes the Stage 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z “Salome” is a feminist potboiler, a tale of enterprise and upward mobility that follows Sonya Mendel from sweatshop seamstress to prosperous fashion designer. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Ménard grew up in the Brittany region of northern France, where her mother was a seamstress and her father worked in the local shipyards. A Transgender Director Who Defies Genres (to France’s Confusion) 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Designer Christian Siriano was watching from home, and a few minutes past noon, he tweeted out into the universe that he and his team of idled seamstresses could help. Christian Siriano has become the face of a fashion industry that once dismissed him 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z He told Vanity Fair that he used female staffers to enter fashion houses under the pretense of buying couture and to ferret out gossip and information from seamstresses about fashion lines and their creators. John B. Fairchild, Women’s Wear Daily publisher, dies at 87 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z They told the second group that she was the daughter of a meat packer and a seamstress. “Hi, I’m right here”: An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy 2014-03-10T23:00:00Z Ms. Tran, who previously worked as a seamstress, added deep slashes to her cakes. In New Orleans, King Cake Is a Way to Make Joy 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z He grew up outside of Chicago, his first generation Ghanaian American seamstress mother teaching him to sew. Louis Vuitton show pays tribute to designer Virgil Abloh 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Elsewhere in Paris, a young seamstress named Frances dreams of becoming a famous designer. Secrets, Lies and a Murder (or Three) in the Latest Y.A. Crossover Novels 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Her grandmother, 88, a professional seamstress, was able to give her a few lessons after the holiday, but then she had a stroke. The pandemic-fueled demand for masks has reignited interest in an age-old skill 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Their father was a printer, their mother a seamstress, and they were latchkey children who joined a drama club for want of anything better to do after school. Martin and Gary Kemp: 'We complement each other' 2013-04-19T14:00:04Z She learned how to sew from the seamstresses at her mother's department store, and recalls being kept busy with needlework and pottery projects. T Magazine: A Fine Mess 2012-11-30T18:26:48Z Other volumes recounted the lives of Helen Keller, who overcame deafness and blindness to become a celebrated example of perseverance, and Betsy Ross, seamstress of the early U.S. flag. Judith St. George, writer who gave children a sense of history, dies at 84 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z All five of their children attended college, and this was done on the salary of a janitor and a seamstress. Susan Rice Recounts Making Policy at the Highest Levels 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z A: As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. Patron behind the fashion treasury favors a relaxed Southern California matron look 2010-09-01T16:21:00Z In the men’s atelier, seamstresses hemmed ample brocade capes and attached rosettes, sashes and epaulets to jacket shoulders. Christian Lacroix Puts Opulence into a ‘Midsummer Night’s’ Ballet 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Born to a Basque seaman and a seamstress in 1895, he became an apprentice to a tailor at age 12. Balenciaga, Fashion’s Original Provocateur 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The son of an Alabama coal miner and a seamstress, Jack Whitten emerged into early 1960s New York City, where he found grounding in Abstract Expressionism but moved on, fascinated with materials, process and science. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z “Intimate Apparel,” at Lincoln Center Theater, for which Lynn Nottage adapted her own play, deals with lies, deceptions and thwarted dreams in the story of a Black seamstress in 1905 New York. One Opera Opening Would Make Any Composer Happy. He Has Two. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z She grew up in a working-class family in Medfield, a small town in Massachusetts, where her father worked as a mechanic and repairman and her mother made a living as a seamstress. Lisa Halliday’s Debut Novel Is Drawing Comparisons to Philip Roth. Though Not for the Reasons You Might Think. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z In the end, she made everything in Utah, using home seamstresses she found on Craigslist. On the Runway Blog: Culdesac: A Children's Story 2012-01-06T17:21:35Z Both of his parents worked in factories, his mother as a seamstress and his father shoveling sulfur in a fertilizer plant. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z Despite the fact that Becky announced that she was “good with knitwear,” her team members Joshua and Anya dismissed her design suggestions and assigned her seamstress work. On the Runway Blog: On Project Runway, a Team of Rivals 2011-08-26T18:59:16Z The curators explore, among other things, Marville’s family history: He was born in Paris to a tailor and a seamstress, which suggests sympathies for the small-business owners who would be displaced by Haussmannization. Art Review: ‘Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris’ Debuts at the Met 2014-01-31T00:01:15Z A good, close look was all it took to confirm that looks, born of the creative genius of designer Riccardo Tisci and the skill of his seamstresses and embroiderers, were wearable art. Givenchy's all in the details 2010-07-06T17:59:00Z His father was a mechanic, his mother a homemaker and part-time seamstress. Arthur Blythe, Jazz Saxophonist Who Mixed Sultry and Strident, Dies at 76 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z She sums up O’Keeffe sartorially as “a confident seamstress, a steady manager of her wardrobe and a well-informed shopper.” Georgia O’Keeffe, Stylist and Curator of Her Own Myth 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Using her eye for design and seamstress background, Mimi put up clothes people were drawn to — and her site traffic steadily reflected that. DIY fashion influencer Mimi G overcame homelessness to build a thriving business 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z A seamstress suddenly “decides to give up people,” making clothes instead for mannequins, a car, a teakettle. The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z I am a seamstress, and I prepare, cut, and give all of the instructions and choose the fabrics. In Venice, Capturing the Brio of Festivities Past 2013-04-23T05:49:12Z Still, Ms. Holguin was hopeful that the workshop would provide Rarámuri women with the opportunity to attain visibility as seamstresses with varied skills. Traditional Dresses as Resistance 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into. Domains | Phillip Lim: House of Style 2010-03-04T23:06:00Z His father was an ice-wagon driver, and his mother was a seamstress. Joseph Sargent, Emmy-winning director of TV and film productions, dies at 89 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z In July, he hired more than a dozen skilled seamstresses from Gee’s Bend, starting at $16 an hour. Saving the Artwork of the South: Deep Investment, and a Drone 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z He died of a heart attack in 1943, and the family went on welfare until Mr. King’s mother found work as a seamstress in Manhattan’s garment district. Larry King, Breezy Interviewer of the Famous and Infamous, Dies at 87 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z My mother was a seamstress, so I took one of her needles and put the tip inside the black tunnel and felt a vibration. 'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Four seamstresses toiled an entire month to create the wing-like sleeves of a siren-inspired gown in last spring’s collection, in which each “feather” was composed of a Malibu plume and two organza petals. 2010-01-05T06:10:00Z “I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.” Patti Smith?s Eye for Fashion 2010-03-19T20:41:00Z She was also cooking dinner — her parents had divorced, and her mother worked long hours as a seamstress — inspired by Julia Child’s cooking shows. Food Is Not a Prop for Senator Jessica Ramos. It’s a Platform. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z A daughter of a Turkish engineer and a Swedish seamstress, she grew up listening to Dean Martin and Dionne Warwick. Music: Katarina Dalayman in ?G?tterd?mmerung? at the Met 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z He was a Renaissance man, the most elegant man, who befriended and was as beloved by queens and first ladies, as by seamstresses and gardeners. Diane Von Furstenberg Remembers Oscar de la Renta 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z My home for the night — a modest but comfortable walk-in tent that provided an unbroken view of sprawling wilderness — was sewn by local seamstresses. In Chad, the Elephants (So Many Elephants) Are Back 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z At 16, she sacrifices her education to work as a seamstress so her brothers can go to school and, she hopes, become prosperous. Refugees, Ghosts and a Story About Stories 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z One candidate is an indigent seamstress, another the then-teenage daughter of a wealthy family. How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Though he never officially studied design, his seamstress mother taught him the basics of the trade. Virgil Abloh, Vuitton designer and style visionary, dies at 41 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Instead, he has spent months designing more outfits, sometimes drawing patterns right on the actors’ bodies, and showing seamstresses exactly where to put mirror tiles for maximum effect. The Marvelous Mr. Mackie 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z His mother would talk about helping the impoverished seamstresses who did piecework. While other countries turn Syrian refugees away, Canadians are taking them home 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z And once you give some alternatives a try – looking at labels, looking at what clothes are made of, visiting you local tailor and seamstress and cobbler, you’ll discover all of these things are more satisfying. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z This enables them to support themselves, for every town needs seamstresses. In Daniel Sada's ticklish 'One Out of Two,' twins raise questions about self and identity 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z The museum included displays that recreated life in the East End of London when it was a primarily Jewish area; many of the working-class Jews there worked as tailors and seamstresses. My month of being Jewish 2010-04-08T07:00:00Z “It’s like having a really good cobbler, seamstress or tailor on your speed dial,” Nixon says. Reupholster or replace? It’s not an easy answer. 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z At 16, when Evora was doing piecework as a seamstress, a friend persuaded her to sing in one of the many sailors' taverns in her town. Grammy-winning singer Cesaria Evora dies at age 70 2011-12-17T19:52:37Z Tcheng humanizes the world of $30,000, made-to-order dresses by showing that the artistry is as much about the seamstresses in the workrooms as it is the design direction from on high. 'Dior and I' goes inside design house 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z In addition to singing harmonies, Cleotha Staples was an accomplished seamstress, and often designed the stage clothes for her sisters. Cleotha Staples, founding member of the Staple Singers, dies at 78 2013-02-22T15:51:00Z And then, like any good seamstress, she cut the pattern for the rest of us. Betsey Johnson: A Role Model, Still 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s convenient, then, that Emma Gladstone, a vicar’s daughter and seamstress, bursts into his library wearing the most hideous wedding dress he’s ever seen. Perspective | Need to laugh out loud? These hilarious romance novels will do the trick. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z In 2008, she spent about six months working in the atelier of a seamstress whose family’s roots in the craft went back generations. ‘The dress comes out of pain’: Patience Torlowei creates fashion from the highs and lows of modern Africa 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z In that book, Ferrante writes that she grew up in Naples, the daughter of a local seamstress. The “Unmasking” of Elena Ferrante 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z His parents, Jacob, a plasterer, and Rel Goldman Topol, a seamstress, had fled shtetlach in Eastern Europe to settle in Palestine in the early 1930s. Topol, Star of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on the Screen and the Stage, Dies at 87 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z This rich, rewarding debut novel follows a Ghanaian seamstress — forced into an arranged marriage with a wealthy man she has never met — on her journey of self-discovery. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Each of his recent paintings functions as a social vignette: A sidewalk seamstress, with no customers in sight, has a friend sitting beside her, keeping her company. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z In line with the video, Dolce and Gabbana presented outfits that bore prints of seamstresses’ hands, measuring tapes reading “Made by hand”, scissors and other items illustrating the brand’s handicraft. Dolce & Gabbana puts 'Elegance' on show at Milan Fashion 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z His mother worked as a seamstress, an envelope stuffer and a toy-factory supervisor. Danny Aiello, Actor in ‘Do the Right Thing,’ Dies at 86 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Nora settles in as a seamstress and prepares for marriage while her sister is enthralled by her new city’s delights, until she abruptly leaves to join a convent. New in Paperback: ‘Rising Star,’ ‘Mrs. Fletcher’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z A marine biologist-turned-science writer describes coming face-to-shell with a giant clam on the Great Barrier Reef, enjoying a bag of smoked oysters in Gambia and meeting a sea-silk seamstress in Italy. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z His mother, an immigrant from Poland, was a seamstress. Arthur Ortenberg, a Liz Claiborne Founder, Dies at 87 2014-02-05T05:55:51Z Atkins grew up in rural southwest Virginia, where her dad was a miner and her mother was a seamstress. California’s first lesbian Senate leader could make history again if she runs for governor 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Mafe was very close with his mother, and spent many hours with her at her Minneapolis seamstress shop, where Bola made traditional clothing. Seahawks linebacker Boye Mafe honors his late mother before every game, after every sack 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z He works as a messenger and she as a seamstress, but the pandemic limited her hours and then her factory closed. Almost 70, unemployed, worried about his health and living in his car 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z Cuban seamstress Yamidely Cervantes has bought a new sewing machine for the first time in years, plus a refrigerator and a cellphone - all on Russia's dime. Special Report: How Cubans were recruited to fight for Russia 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Cervantes, the seamstress of La Federal, recalls the desperation her husband Gonzalez, now in Russia, had felt in the months before he left. How Cubans were recruited to fight for Russia 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z My grandma was a seamstress and also a doll maker, and ever since I was a kid, whenever she had to babysit us, she’d make us a doll from scratch. Sustainability is the standard, not a niche thing for Leeann Huang 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z "There's still a core of brilliant seamstresses living in and around the south Wales valleys. Some of them are still doing little bits of ad hoc work, some sampling work, some small production runs." Great British Sewing Bee judge's bid to restart Welsh underwear making 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z "Years ago I felt like a millionaire, today my salary isn't enough," said Migdalia Uviedo, 58, a retired teacher who now works as a tutor and seamstress. 'The boom is over': Venezuelans lament end of brief dollarization boost 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Atkins grew up in poverty in rural southwestern Virginia, the daughter of a coal miner and a seamstress. California Senate taps new leader 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Born in Odense, Denmark, Dambo was a free-spirited child, raised scouring flea markets with his mother, a theater costume seamstress, and exploring the outdoors with his blacksmith father who owned a bicycle repair shop. Why giant trolls are popping up in the Greater Seattle area 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z They were an ambitious baker’s dozen; the boys studied to become engineers, and the girls trained to become seamstresses. The frothy saga of the Jacuzzi family 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z Every item will be hand cut and sewn by seamstresses at the New Tredegar factory and will be priced from £9 to £15. Great British Sewing Bee judge's bid to restart Welsh underwear making 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z Each and every pillow we create is a labor of love, meticulously sewn together by professional seamstresses who share a deep passion for their craft. The ultimate guide to caring for your throw pillows 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Bennett credited his mother, Anna, with teaching him a valuable lesson as he watched her working at home, supporting her three children as a seamstress doing piecework after his father died. Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z She worked long hours during the week as a seamstress but, on Sundays, she put on family concerts starring her children. Tony Bennett obituary: The great interpreter of the American songbook 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z When he was 10, his father died and his mother struggled to maintain the family as a seamstress. Tony Bennett, timeless singer who won over fans for decades, dies at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z She worked as a seamstress, a babysitter, and a caretaker for elderly neighbors as her children bought homes, and had children of their own. Column: Goodbye, Grandma Arellano, and gracias for your 100 years of love 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Another problem is the shortage of staff, Zhdanova said, citing a lack of seamstresses and professionals in textiles that she believed only government-led initiatives could resolve. Russian clothing brands plug gap left by Western rivals 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Depp speaks French in the movie which tells the story of the daughter of an impoverished seamstress who became the French King's last official mistress. Cannes: Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp and Wes Anderson return to film festival 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z “You can see people are returning to clean the cemetery, and the village is coming back to life,” said Natalia Borysovska, a seamstress whose house was destroyed last year. At Ukraine’s Gravesites, a Spring Ritual Hints at Renewal 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Shaping her vast array of colors, ciphers and traditions, she’s a seamstress of the torn national fabric. Review | Brendan Slocumb’s latest is as rich and suspenseful as ‘The Violin Conspiracy’ 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z She earns a little money as a seamstress — and has to budget carefully. They found work in Russia. Then it became a deadly trap 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Both his parents worked in Hollywood, his father as a special effects technician and his mother as a seamstress turned dancer. Craig Breedlove, once the fastest man on wheels, dies at 86 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z After her father died, she moved North at age 16, first to Washington and then New York, where she found work as a seamstress. On the Edna Lewis Menu Trail, a toast to an iconic chef and her hometown Sarkar’s first concern was how she was going to pay her seamstresses — Afghani women refugees living in Seattle. Caught in SVB’s collapse, small businesses got help from customers 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z His father and mother, a plasterer and seamstress, respectively, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Topol, Israeli actor who starred in film ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies at 87 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Her mother was a nurse and a “wonderful seamstress” who made hats and jewelry — Hudson later learned that she used to paint, but stopped when she had kids. Mixed media artist Pamela Smith Hudson was told to 'stay in one lane.' She refused 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z He dedicated it to his seamstress grandmother, who didn’t get to see him make it to the big northern fashion city. Milan fashion celebrates girl power at Gucci, Cormio, Tod’s 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Others have adapted by relocating to places like Lviv, or changing their output to fill new wartime demands, like the lingerie seamstresses who have switched to sewing cloth vests to fit body armor plates. How One Ukrainian Company Survived, and Thrived, Through a Year of War 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z “And having my laptop bag repaired by a talented local seamstress, instead of buying a new one.” Just swap it! Check out the Seattle-based company working to provide more sustainable household products | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z He was a volatile man who bullied the household, especially her mother, a seamstress of English descent. Raquel Welch, international icon who starred in 'Fantastic Voyage,' dies at 82 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The community-tied music and dance clubs have always included women, most commonly as seamstresses and dancers. Rio’s first all-female samba school prepares defiant parade 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Frances left school to work as a seamstress and nursemaid for a white Baltimore family that owned a bookshop. Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z His mother was a chief seamstress at designer Cristóbal Balenciaga’s couture house in San Sebastián. Paco Rabanne, fashion designer who distilled ’60s spirit, dies at 88 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z On Saturday, Ung, who worked multiple jobs, including as a seamstress, had gone to the Star Ballroom to celebrate the Lunar New Year with her best friend. Passion for dance drew many of those slain to ballroom 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z So this skilled seamstress created an outfit that enabled her to pose as a wealthy but ailing young man who needed constant tending to by his slave — William. They posed as master and slave: The dramatic escape story behind a pathbreaking book 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Martinez was a native of Tampa, son of a restaurant worker and a seamstress. Book excerpt: What Florida tells us about the future of U.S. politics 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z At Preslow’s factory some 50 miles north of Mexico City, 200 seamstresses leaned over clattering sewing machines on a recent morning, stitching garments amid the strains of Mexican folk music. ‘OK, Mexico, Save Me’: After China, This Is Where Globalization May Lead 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z The poet's words, the miner's gem, and the seamstress's handkerchief would all be priced very differently in a store, but they represent the same value: a piece of oneself, given with love. The case for spending less money on holiday gifts 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z His father was a shoemaker, his mother a seamstress. Albert Madansky Dies at 88; Gauged Risk of Unwitting Atomic War 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z “I asked one of my seamstresses and she couldn’t tell the difference between Reishi and real leather,” he said. Are Mushrooms the Future of Alternative Leather? 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Aurora Knox has been a seamstress and tailor for 50 years in New Orleans. New Orleans' film industry was a 'secret club.' 'Queen Sugar' blew its doors wide open 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z For me, for example, my grandmother, the seamstress, deserves to be laid in state for several days and to have people come and say goodbye to her just like anybody else. This photo of a busy intersection in Downtown L.A. is a meditation on infinity 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Instead, she started working as a seamstress, eventually joining with others to form a cooperative to sell ponchos. Hebe de Bonafini, 93, Who Rallied Mothers of ‘the Disappeared,’ Dies 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z As a seamstress and single mother of three children, she would have a hard time paying for guitar lessons out of her own pocket, after covering rent, food, car upkeep and other expenses. Candelas Guitars in Boyle Heights fights to survive, with some famous friends' help 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z She worked as a nanny, a laundress, a seamstress and a house cleaner, never imagining, she said, that the racial order of American society would change. Virginia McLaurin, centenarian who danced with Obamas, dies 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The seamstresses in Obama’s lineage worked for white families, making and fixing and darning their clothes. Michelle Obama's new book is self-help — but it goes high 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The cover photo is one that Lewis is near certain her grandmother, seamstress and amateur photographer Dorothy Mary Coste Thomas Brooks, took herself. This photo of a busy intersection in Downtown L.A. is a meditation on infinity 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z In addition, Parks was a daughter, sister, wife, seamstress, seasoned home cook and so much more. Rosa Parks’s peanut butter pancakes offer a delicious taste of history 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Her father was a carpenter and farmer, and her mother was a seamstress who also worked in White people’s homes washing their clothes. Vanilla Beane, the District’s ‘Hat Lady,’ dies at 103 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z “I think we took for granted what an amazing seamstress she was,” Hoyos said, remembering happy times watching the movie with her grandmother, pausing the film to examine details of the dress. Delia Carlota Cano, who founded her own Seattle sportswear manufacturing business, dies at 96 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Construction workers, seamstresses and dishwashers live in close quarters. L.A.’s love of sprawl made it America's most overcrowded place. Poor people pay a deadly price 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z She purchases a showroom in Paris for an inspired Thai seamstress. Review | ‘The English Understand Wool’ is a little gift to Helen DeWitt fans 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Bernstein was a fine composer but a lousy seamstress, and the work’s wild mood board of clashing textures and dated colors can sometimes test the limits of design, toeing the line between handcrafted and homemade. Review | A half-century later, Bernstein’s ‘Mass’ shines anew at Kennedy Center 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Soto didn’t panic, and instead she called the one seamstress she has known all her life, her mother. Shout out to all the hands that touched a Nancy Stella Soto 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Maureen Rose, from Ringwood in Hampshire, had dreamed of becoming a seamstress aged 10 after seeing the Queen in her wedding dress. Queen Elizabeth II: Dressmaker 'so lucky" to land dream job 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z He helped Salas get documented and find work as a cleaner, seamstress and cook to get her off the streets. With Francis’s blessing, Italian church transforms trans community 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Her mother was a seamstress, and her grandmother was a seamstress, as were all of her aunties. The Aloha shirt is being reclaimed by Polynesian designers 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z While some women could find employment in the newly settled towns as teachers, cooks, or seamstresses, they originally did not enjoy many rights. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z About 25 miles west of Chennai, in the village of Nemam, around two dozen seamstresses churn out cloth bags while Bollywood music plays. For India’s Effort to Ban Disposable Plastic, One State Offers a Playbook 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z On her release, Johnson moved to New York, just as the palmist predicted, landing a job as a seamstress in Greenwich Village but spending free time up in Harlem, where she experienced racism firsthand. Review | A psychic said Stephanie Johnson’s life would be tough. She was right. 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z And she quickly wins the favor of Dior’s worker bees, seamstresses and tailors, etc., who recognize her as a working-class sister in arms. ‘Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris’ review: Lesley Manville charms in this airy trip to the City of Light 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z In the southern city of Odesa, a local fashion brand had all of its divisions, even its lingerie seamstresses, sewing cloth vests to fit body armor plates. In a Time of Conflict, Ukraine Entrepreneurs Make War Their Business 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z He was accused of stealing around $1 million from grandmothers, farmers, seamstresses, husbands — people risking everything to build new lives in New York. He had a dark secret. It changed his best friend’s life 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z It took 12 seamstresses, using 18 types of gold thread, 3,500 hours to complete the embroidered cipher and the border of wheat ears and olive branches, which symbolise prosperity and peace. Platinum Jubilee: Windsor Castle displays Queen's coronation gown and robe 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Born in Tupelo, Miss., the seventh of eight children of a seamstress and a carpenter, Gilliam received his bachelor of arts and master of arts from the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Commentary: Why the late Sam Gilliam's inventive abstract drapes celebrated artistic difference 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z She was also backed by her great-aunt, who introduced her to the fundamentals of etiquette, and her maternal grandmother, a seamstress who made gowns for drag queens and dancers. Gloria Allen, who ran a charm school for transgender youths, dies at 76 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z She was able to save the jobs of the 40 seamstresses she had on staff, and even added 10 new positions. In a Time of Conflict, Ukraine Entrepreneurs Make War Their Business 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z His father was a carpenter and his mother was a seamstress. Sam Gilliam, abstract artist who went beyond the frame, dies at 88 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z In a long and moving tribute, Laverne said her mother had been the middle of nine children, and had worked as a seamstress and a casino dancer to pay for teacher training college. Lauren Laverne pulls out of Glastonbury after her mother dies 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z She also received coaching in female fashion from her maternal grandmother, a seamstress who designed outfits for so-called female impersonators who performed in those same clubs. Gloria Allen, Transgender Activist Who Ran a Charm School, Dies at 76 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z One moment a seamstress daydreams, the next the tulle she’s sewing catches fire, and her with it. The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Now a British citizen, she has volunteered as a sewing tutor with the group and went on to secure work as a self employed seamstress. Sewing group gave refugee a voice after 10 years in the UK 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z But the children feel as strong as their machinery, mass-produced, with plenty of seamstresses for repairing: some ladies patch holes, others fix neck bones, still more sew on buttons that were torn away from hands. Poem: Buried in a human neck, a bullet 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z His father was reportedly denied the military draft because of a body weakened by alcoholism, while his mother was a seamstress. Katsumoto Saotome, chronicler of Tokyo firebombing, dies at 90 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z A seamstress by trade, Ms. Williams had spent the decade since her assault working with hands that had been tattooed by Mr. Camacho. ‘A Monster in Our Midst’: How a Tattoo Industry #MeToo Case Collapsed 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Thirty years ago, Rosie Guzman was working as a seamstress, for a Korean boss, and had to rush home from work when the looting and fires started. L.A. residents deeply pessimistic about race relations 30 years after riots, poll finds 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Entire communities rally around the competing samba schools, whose shows are not only a source of pride but also employment since preparations require countless seamstresses, welders, costume designers and more. Rio’s flamboyant Carnival parade is back after the pandemic 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z But the children, if they survive, say it was luck, and if they die, they think that was yesterday, today is another day, and the seamstresses stand with a shroud, telling them, “Put this on.” Poem: Buried in a human neck, a bullet 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z No seamstresses putting the final touches on a costume. Ukraine families at mercy of Russian troops in a town's bombed cultural palace 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z She also wanted to communicate better with her parents, immigrants from China who worked as a seamstress and a cook. The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Retired seamstress Jean Shepherd had a stroke in April last year, leaving her severely disabled and requiring round-the-clock care. NHS faces an Easter 'as bad as any winter' 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z She also photographed sharecroppers working the land, seamstresses at a sewing cooperative, mothers tending to their young ones and children going about their childhood. Doris Derby, photographer of African American life, dies at 82 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Sequera, 72, and González, 74, worked for years as a seamstress and driver to build their two houses and raise their four children. Pension hike not enough for Venezuelans to afford basic food 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Catering to the needs of the numerous local seamstresses, costumiers, knitters, crocheteers and dressmakers, it thrived. In pictures: Behind the shop facade 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z For pennies a day, a seamstress might sew collar after collar in her own home, or a number of clothing workers could toil furiously together in a tiny sweatshop. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Preachers try to pry teenagers from the clutches of drug gangs and they train the unemployed as seamstresses, hairdressers and mechanics. The battle for the presidency of Brazil could rest on how evangelicals vote 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Companies have set up on-site kindergartens or day care centers, allowing newcomers to be near their children as they take on roles as health care workers, teachers, programmers and seamstresses. Fleeing War in Ukraine, They’re Met With Employers Offering Paychecks 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z A group of seamstresses who fled the war are helping by making camouflage outfits for the men and women on the front line. War seamstresses: From wedding dresses to army gear 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Sewing, part of my practice, is done to honor my maternal grandmother, a couture seamstress whose dreams were dashed by war; but it is also because she could sew that she survived the war. What does it mean to be a refugee? An L.A. artist examines her family's history of displacement and loss 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Using a foot-operated sewing machine, the 51-year-old Philippine seamstress stitches and weaves plastics and other materials into inventive and fashionable frocks and gowns, sometimes completed by headdresses. Philippine designer fashions gowns out of recycled trash 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Or how many have become janitors or dishwashers, or seamstresses in sweatshops, or have found other menial work. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z You know, she was their seamstress, she was their cook, she cleans. Why Oscar-nominated Aunjanue Ellis fought for her character in ‘King Richard’ 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z His mother was a homemaker and seamstress, and his father was a printer who served in the British army during World War I. Ashley Bryan, whose joyous picture books celebrated Black life and history, dies at 98 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z But that wasn’t on the minds of attendees Sunday afternoon, as they reminisced over families they raised there, just over the bridge from downtown L.A., and laughed over shared memories involving the neighborhood seamstress. They want you to remember Black Boyle Heights: 'We were there' 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z He grew up near Poitiers, where his mother was a seamstress and theater usher, and his father, who suffered from chronic enterocolitis and lesions in his heart, was an accountant. Luc Montagnier, Nobel-winning virologist who co-discovered HIV, dies at 89 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z These days, his favorite objects to sculpt are pins and needles, a tribute to his father, a tailor, and his mother, a seamstress. Ghost Army, a World War II master of deception, wins U.S. recognition 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z After an appeal on social media, local seamstress Ellie Jones offered to stitch the memory blanket together. Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: Memory blanket stitched from tributes 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Models walked out to a flash of a strobe light, in a slick effect suggesting they had just been forged by some heavenly seamstress. Kim Jones back on runway as Fendi channels celestial Rome 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Embroidered tights were also a big theme for spring, with Dior’s army of seamstresses having gone to work in embellishing several statement pieces. Dior celebrates couture craft, as maskless Delevingne irks 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The shutdown of Broadway and other live events created a devastating ripple effect on dozens of ancillary creative workers — seamstresses, embroiderers, beaders, cloth dyers, fabric pleaters. Why the Woman Who Dressed ‘The Gilded Age’ Is on the Verge of Giving Up 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Our tailors and seamstresses would be terribly busy. Letter from Africa: Desmond Tutu's funeral re-imagined Ghana-style 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z My mother was a seamstress for Ethiopian Airlines. ‘I Know What the End of the World Looks Like’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z She did hard labor and worked as a seamstress, but the conditions were so severe that she lost her left eye. As the Kremlin Revises History, a Human Rights Champion Becomes a Casualty 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri wanted to show how the craft of the “petites mains” seamstresses, some of whom have worked in the Dior atelier for decades, was equally important as the art or fashion itself. Dior celebrates couture craft, as maskless Delevingne irks 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Jiménez’s dad was a taxi driver, his mom a seamstress. Pablo Escobar’s personal photographer confronts the drug lord’s complicated legacy 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z "Society, I am formally requesting a masculine form of the 'seamstress' profession," he said. Russia's Navalny says he has become a 'seamstress' in prison 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator. Bob Dole, Old Soldier and Stalwart of the Senate, Dies at 98 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z A first generation Ghanaian American whose seamstress mother taught him to sew, Abloh had no formal fashion training but had a degree in engineering and a master’s in architecture. Fashion designer Virgil Abloh dies of cancer at 41 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z A first generation Ghanaian American whose seamstress mother taught him to sew, Abloh had no formal fashion training but had a degree in engineering and a master's in architecture. Designer Virgil Abloh dead at 41 after private battle with cancer 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Moreno was born in Puerto Rico and immigrated to New York City when she was 5, and her seamstress mother made costumes for the budding child performer. Rita Moreno gets candid in documentary on her decades-long career 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Grisel Riquelme, a 39-year-old seamstress in Santiago, the capital, who runs a small family business, said she had become so frustrated with politics that she may spoil her ballot in protest. José Antonio Kast, Far-Right Candidate, Leads After First Round of Chile’s Presidential Election 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z His father was a printer, and his mother was a seamstress and store clerk. Aaron Beck, psychiatrist who developed cognitive therapy, dies at 100 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z It is made in Los Angeles, where the environmentally conscious designer prides herself on paying seamstresses premium wages, with full healthcare and paid vacation. The 27 coolest made-in-L.A. gifts to give this year 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Diaries and letters, stored elsewhere, of senators and saloonkeepers and seamstresses, all asking: Is democracy a failure? Opinion | What We Did the Last Time We Broke America 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Parks, a Black seamstress and activist who was convicted of violating racial segregation laws after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955, was convicted of violating racial segregation laws. Bid considered to clear Alabama court records of King, Parks 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z The retired seamstress can’t move in with her children because they don’t have extra space. Low-income seniors 'essentially trapped' in Chinatown building as owner is charged for inoperable elevators 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Ruth is an actual seamstress — she used to work in a theater costume shop — so I was really hoping to have her on board. Perspective | So you think you can sew: My experience with a needle is somewhat patchy. 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z She was a seamstress and sewed clothes, draperies and household items for friends and family. Community deaths 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Her father, Michael Bromberg, became an orchestral viola player in Britain, including with the Scottish National Orchestra, while her mother, Rose Lyons, was a seamstress. Sheila Bromberg, harpist on Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,’ dies at 92 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z In her area, many of the seamstresses were poor women who used their work as “a form of self-expression,” she said. Afghan women share images of colorful, traditional styles to protest Taliban dress codes 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z She was raised by her mother, who worked as a sweatshop seamstress, and her maternal grandparents, both of whom were born in Mexico. Yolanda López, artist who elevated Latina life, dies at 78 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Where are the seamstresses and tailors, eager to fit that newly purchased fabric to your frame? Perspective | So you think you can sew: My experience with a needle is somewhat patchy. 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z In “Real Women Have Curves,” Ontiveros plays Carmen, a seamstress in her oldest daughter’s textile factory and the martyred matriarch of a hardworking immigrant family. Patricia Cardoso's 'Real Women Have Curves' was landmark Latina cinema, but Hollywood shut her out. Until now 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z His mother came from the Bahamas and worked as a seamstress, and his parents separated when he was young. Michael K. Williams, Emmy-nominated actor who brought charming menace to ‘The Wire,’ dies at 54 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Walter Hunt, the American inventor who came up with the next workable sewing machine, abandoned his design when he grasped a horrible inevitability: his invention would put thousands of tailors and seamstresses out of work. Francis Criss painted 'Alma Sewing' as a study of composure, and unruliness On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a seamstress and activist in the Montgomery N.A.A.C.P., boarded Mr. Blake’s bus and sat in the front section, which was reserved for white riders. Lucille Times, Who Inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dies at 100 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z They are mostly made by seamstresses in Russia, where rhythmic gymnastics is a wildly popular sport. Long dominated by Russia, rhythmic gymnastics rising in US 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Her father owned a prosperous import business and tailoring studio, and her mother, also a seamstress, was a homemaker. Ruth Pearl, seeker of justice for her murdered journalist son, Daniel, dies at 85 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The seamstress showed her a fashion magazine, and the next first lady chose the designs of two discreet suits. Peru’s new first family leaving behind rural, Andean home 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z But here in Trou-du-Nord, where journalists from The New York Times visited on Thursday and Friday, he was remembered mostly as the son of a sugar cane farmer and seamstress. In Slain Haitian Leader’s Hometown, Fear and a Vow: ‘We’ll Kill Them, Too’ 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z In 1875, as a young seamstress living in a stone cottage with her large family, Grace migrated to England’s industrial midlands to work in hosiery manufacturing. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Examples of highly effective — and ineffective — art 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Jordan-Brown, 64, who also worked in N.Y.U.’s finance department for 20 years, says he was inspired to pursue a career in fashion by watching his mother work as a seamstress and hairdresser. They Came to Slay: L.G.B.T.Q. Trailblazers 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z “I’m always sending them messages,” said Maria from her home, where she works as a seamstress and harvests bananas in the nearby mountains. Separated from her daughters in U.S., Honduran mom parents from her smartphone 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The aunt was a seamstress who spoke only Lao. Elaborate phone tree links Laotian immigrants to COVID info, each other 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Maria Barnard worked at Browns as a seamstress and costumier for 19 years. Browns of Chester: Sad demise of 'the Harrods of the North' 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z His mother, Rita, was a seamstress who later worked as a bookkeeper for her husband. Eli Broad, billionaire who poured wealth into reshaping L.A., dies at 87 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z His father was a bus driver, his mother a seamstress. Beyond the pandemic: London votes for a mayor during crisis 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z “The seamstresses in their white coats looked puzzled and later returned with a swath of fine tulle and a bag of loose beads and rhinestones,” von Teese wrote. Photos: Why Halle, Angelina and Julia trust this designer to get them red-carpet ready 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Woodward, now 38, became a seamstress and began designing ribbon skirts in honor of her aunt and other missing women, eventually creating the company ReeCreations in 2018. New federal Missing & Murdered Unit aims at crisis of violence against Indigenous women 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z His father was a security guard and bus driver, his mother a seamstress. John Naisbitt, futurist and best-selling author of ‘Megatrends,’ dies at 92 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z She is retraining as a seamstress, in order to get piecework which experienced co-workers claim can earn them several dollars a day. Covid in Kenya: The woman who refuses to be defeated by the virus 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Though the seamstress was leery, the dress was made in a little under two weeks, and the two were married in 1945, after Adams was honorably discharged as a staff sergeant. Air Forces, father, husband: Man reflects on his 100 years 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z A humble seamstress finds herself swept up in a royal romance in the TV movie “Fit for a Prince.” What’s on TV This Week: The Golden Globes, Eddie Murphy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and more 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Sparks fly when a seamstress tries to impress a prince by designing dresses for a charity ball. Movies on TV this week: 'Gandhi'; 'Forrest Gump' and more 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Her mother was a seamstress, and her father was a Navy chief petty officer. Marie Mongan, champion of hypnobirthing, dies at 86 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Samba schools — mostly rooted in working-class and favela communities — rely on an army of seamstresses, carpenters and artisans to realize their visions. Rio makes do as Carnival festivities are canceled 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z A simple seamstress changes the course of history with a single act, decent people did the right thing and the nation inexorably moved toward justice. Opinion | The Real Rosa Parks Story Is Better Than the Fairy Tale 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z A skilled seamstress, Mrs. Whitfield sewed the dolls’ outfits: bright, patterned dresses trimmed with lace, matching bloomers, bobby socks and dress shoes. Loretta Whitfield, co-creator of Black Baby Whitney doll, dies at 79 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Her grandmother, a retired seamstress with dementia, would help her dress. ‘I Will Get Up’: A Hard New Year Greets a World in Waiting 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Her father was a businessman and her mother a homemaker and later seamstress. Rose Ochi, trailblazer for civil rights and Japanese American causes, dies at 81 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z “Sometimes when you’re a seamstress, it’s kind of bland. But I love the colors. And I feel patriotic. Every time you tell someone you are making flags, they want to ask you about it.” These Businesses Thrived as Others Struggled to Survive 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Penney and Walmart, employed the seamstress for two months before nationwide lockdown measures forced all factories to temporarily close in March. Pandemic crushes global supply chains, workers at both ends 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z A widow for the last eight years, the seamstress single-handedly supports her youngest daughter, who is 20, and her 4-year-old grandchild. Pandemic crushes global supply chains, workers at both ends 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Naomi is resolute, though, that she is done with her husband and is learning how to become a seamstress. Families marry off daughters to ease finances amid COVID-19 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z After immigrating, Ms. Le at one point worked four jobs at once — babysitter, seamstress, caregiver and newspaper deliverer. Facing Friction, Entrepreneurs Readjust to Meet Needs 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z He reassigned his 10 seamstresses in New York to produce thousands daily for health care workers on the frontlines. Despite bleak 2020, celebrities make effort to brighten year 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Litali, the seamstress, says she felt weak in the knees when she heard the news that she was suddenly unemployed. Pandemic crushes global supply chains, workers at both ends 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Barnett was a seamstress with three children and three grandchildren, according to her obituary. Kentucky man charged with killing, setting woman, 81, ablaze 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Yet access to the 4,500-square-foot studio and its staff of three expert seamstresses proved as tempting as it was inspiring. Working in Luis Barragán’s Shadow 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z An avid baker and seamstress, she died on the last day of the month. One Day in America: More Than 121,000 Virus Cases 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Poets, musicians, seamstresses, podcasters, photographers and writers are part of the group. Art project aims to start discussion on Black Lives Matter 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Grandma worked as a seamstress, a babysitter and a caretaker for older neighbors. Column: How do you show up en masse to celebrate Grandma's birthday without killing her with COVID-19? 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z It includes a radio station, English and literacy classes for women, an Islamic school and a seamstress center that sells clothing made by women. In Former Taliban Stronghold, Defiant Women Hit the Gym 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z The incarcerated seamstresses at the California Institution for Women grew increasingly worried: The fabric they used came from the nearby men’s prison, where an outbreak ended up killing 23 inmates. California kept prison factories open. Inmates worked for pennies an hour as COVID-19 spread 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z The women, meanwhile, worked as seamstresses, launderers or bakers to earn money while their husbands were at sea for years at a time. On Long Island, a Beachfront Haven for Black Families 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z “Some Latinos are going to be happy, like it’s some sort of revenge,” said the seamstress. Column: Welcome to the Latino coronavirus club, President Trump. Get well 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Then the soprano secured one of the lead roles in a retelling of Puccini's most famous work, which tells of the tragic romance of writer Rodolfo and seamstress Mimì, who dies of a respiratory condition. Drive-in opera singer 'excited to be back' 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Without skipping a beat, the seamstress quipped, “Oh, honey, you are not even the first bride today to tell me that.” What do Pacific Northwesterners do when COVID nixes wedding plans? Elope, outdoor adventure-style 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z His mother was a seamstress, and his father, an alcoholic deemed too physically frail to enlist as a soldier, also lived at home. The Man Who Won’t Let the World Forget the Firebombing of Tokyo 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z In Boston, Mr. Martignetti’s mother was a seamstress, and his father worked at the cemetery where Mr. Martignetti will be buried, according to his brother. Anthony Martignetti, TV commercial star who ran home for Prince pasta, dies at 63 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z She moved when she was 8 to New York City, where her mother worked as a seamstress. Luchita Hurtado, belatedly acclaimed for the sensual beauty of her art, dies at 99 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to rely on them for food,” said Norelis, a seamstress who was preparing to set up a small shop when she decided to emigrate. Returning Venezuelan migrants find cold welcome amid COVID 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z His mother worked as a seamstress while his father, an engineer, took work as a mechanic and janitor. New ICE director: History as refugee lends credibility to job 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Last week the shop reopened with Mary Elizabeth taking over as seamstress. Indiana family keeps late woman’s sewing shop dream alive 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z After many years she found a job as a seamstress in a clothing factory, but the elation she must have felt did not last long. The power of Black women like Kamala Harris and my grandma 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Hurtado, too, was supposed to be a seamstress but clandestinely studied painting rather than dressmaking when she was in high school. Luchita Hurtado, belatedly acclaimed for the sensual beauty of her art, dies at 99 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Navoy recently hired an extra seamstress to help keep up with mask orders, which now account for 40 percent of her sales. Struggling U.S. manufacturers pivot to one product where sales are actually booming: Masks 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z In essence, she traded her time and expertise as a seamstress for her friends’ willingness to be on the front lines of the protests. Can’t Find It at the Store? 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z For the seasoned seamstress, it was always about the quality of the work and pleasing customers. Indiana family keeps late woman’s sewing shop dream alive 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z A talented seamstress, she made clothes for the family and taught her daughters to sew. New Jersey transplant who found her niche in rural 1960s Virginia dies of covid-19 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Her seamstress Migdalaixis Sanchez said she interlaced black and white stripes to create the material for the cloth mask. Face mask fashion: Cuban quinceaneras in the coronavirus era 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Denied any schooling, she excelled as a seamstress, and then, at age 16, found herself loaded into a wagon for the historic occasion in New York. Tear down the statues of racist traitors — and raise monuments to heroes of Black resistance 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z They worked and traveled most closely with our nation’s first First Family as chamber maids, postilions, cooks, waiters, laborers, seamstresses and valets. Opinion | George and Martha Washington enslaved 300 people. Let’s start with their names. 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Michael tried to find a seamstress to work in the shop, but there were no takers. Indiana family keeps late woman’s sewing shop dream alive 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Raised in rural Bedford County — her mother was a seamstress, her father a mechanic — Davis chose Washington and Lee because it looked like the beautiful ideal of a college campus. Northam’s case for removing Lee statue was devised by a lawyer descended from slaves 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z At first, Ms. Perez, a retired seamstress, thought her granddaughter was being alarmist. ‘The City Fumbled It’: How 4 Families Took On the Virus 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z One was a course in tailoring, though she had been a seamstress for years, and the other — showing the range in program offerings — was a class on idioms of American expression. Longtime politician Gary Locke faces unprecedented challenges as new leader at Bellevue College 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Fashion houses must hire, train and nurture more black designers, seamstresses and marketing executives. When it comes to embracing black talent, fashion needs to do better 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z As a third-generation seamstress - her grandmother owns The Sewing Shop in Mitchell - Mary Elizabeth is teaching herself so she can provide the range of alteration services customers request. Indiana family keeps late woman’s sewing shop dream alive 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z They include a doctor, a hospital porter, a father and son who worked as cobblers, a retired seamstress, and a bass guitarist. ‘We Grieve’: Community project unites neighbors in healing 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z He also set Ms. Blangsted on her course in Hollywood, finding her a job in the Warner Bros. wardrobe department, where she worked her way from seamstress to wardrobe woman. Else Blangsted, Hollywood eminence who escaped Nazi Europe, dies at 99 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z In another, three medical residents cut the surgical drapes into shapes seamstresses could stitch into gowns. No deaths and an army of hospital workers ready to fight: A rural town’s prescription for a nation weighing what’s next 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Room Shop Vintage in the US started selling matching mask and top sets when their seamstress sent over images of a sample. How face masks are becoming fashionable 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z An immigrant from Honduras, Ms. Díaz worked as a seamstress and later as a home health aide, before injuring her back lifting a patient. What’s Going to Happen to Junior, Now That His Mother Is Dead? 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Her parents, who emigrated from Vietnam after the war, had been working as a carpenter and a seamstress in El Monte. For the class of 2020, all those once-in-a-lifetime moments are gone 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z “We wanted to be part of what is happening in the world right now” said Carolina Ordoñez, chief designer at Palo Rosa beachwear, a Bogota company with 15 seamstresses. In Latin America, face masks become a form of expression 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z White women were seamstresses; women of colour worked in the laundry. Psychiatry under the shadow of white supremacy 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Parris’s 77-year-old mother, who lives with her family, has long been a seamstress and she used a sewing machine to sew masks together. A West Virginia church spends Easter making face shields using 3-D printers 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z With raw materials difficult to secure, Amish seamstresses came up with a more efficient mask design. In Ohio, the Amish Take On the Coronavirus 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z I’m a sporadic and sloppy seamstress, and I managed it. The Verge’s best and worst coronavirus masks 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Inside, seamstresses perched on plastic chairs busily transformed beige and pale yellow fabric into medical wear. Rio samba schools start sewing scrubs in coronavirus effort 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z I am not a seamstress, but this week I found myself sewing my own mask. Opinion | As a doctor, I am willing to do whatever it takes to defeat this virus. Why isn’t Trump? 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z He said the former seamstress would recall seeing aeroplanes for the first time and very few cars on the road. Coronavirus woman, 108, survived Spanish flu 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z A day later, Mr. Troyer had signed up 60 Amish home seamstresses, and the Cleveland Clinic sewing frolic was on. In Ohio, the Amish Take On the Coronavirus 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Sarah Smithers, Senior Editorial Coordinator I am both a terrible and impatient seamstress. The Verge’s best and worst coronavirus masks 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The city joined in, donating thousands of yards of fabric, and the seamstresses set to work Friday. Rio samba schools start sewing scrubs in coronavirus effort 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Teresa’s work as a seamstress often brought her to the nearest city, Brescia, and the town’s children still attended school. They survived World War II. Now coronavirus threatens their lives 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z “We are matching seamstresses with those that need masks,” Ater said. Local group making masks for Miss-Lou healthcare workers 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z “I’m not looking for any fame, publicity, money. If I can just provide some funding for the seamstresses who have been so loyal to me for years, that’s my ultimate goal here,” Costello said. Fashion brands are making face masks, medical gowns for the coronavirus crisis 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z In New York, the designer Christian Siriano has told his 10 seamstresses to begin making masks with the goal of producing a few thousand a week. Governments and Companies Race to Make Masks Vital to Virus Fight 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Seasoned Valentino seamstresses are on hand to take orders for a women’s white poplin button-front shirt, in a cropped or tunic length, customized with a choice of sleeves and embellishments. Looking for the perfect white shirt to 'express yourself'? Valentino might have the answer 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z She survived the Great Depression, raised 3 kids on her own as a seamstress, making G strings for showgirls and other such characters in Vegas. Watch Katy Perry reveal her pregnancy to her dying grandmother 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z “The seamstresses are volunteering their time,” Douglas said. Local group making masks for Miss-Lou healthcare workers 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z For now, 15 seamstresses are at work on the masks. Fashion brands are making face masks, medical gowns for the coronavirus crisis 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Rose is the grandmere, who stitch by stitch handcrafted the dress as a seamstress in the late 1950s in Paris. Review: ‘Grace Kelly Dress’ redefines storybook ending 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z One, a trained seamstress, said she was paid about $37 for her first month and a half of work. Rights group: Lacoste gloves made in Chinese internment camp 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z |
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