Dressmaker
A dressmaker is a person who makes custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns. A dressmaker is also known as a mantua-maker (trivial), modiste, or fabricia.[1]
Notable dressmakers
- Laura Ashley
- Cristóbal Balenciaga
- Pierre Balmain
- Coco Chanel
- Christian Dior
- David Emanuel
- Jean Muir, fashion designer
- Bruce Oldfield
- Anna and Laura Tirocchi, Providence, Rhode Island
- Isabel Toledo
- Mary Quant
- Madeleine Vionnet
- Charles Frederick Worth
- Elizabeth Keckley, modiste and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln
- Janet Walker, costumier and dress making bust inventor
- Madame Palmyre, a favorite designer and dressmaker of the empress of France, Eugénie de Montijo
Dressmaker Media
Pierre Balmain and the actress Ruth Ford, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1947
Jean-Baptiste Jules Trayer, Breton seamstresses in a shop (1854). Before the Industrial Revolution, a seamstress did hand sewing.
References
- ↑ Elster, Charles Harrington (2006). The big book of beastly mispronunciations : the complete opinionated guide for the careful speaker (2nd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-42315-6. OCLC 61115497.