(n.) The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the coming years, as many of its longstanding dressmakers and seamstresses retire, the family-run business will find it hard to replace them so that the brand can continue making clothes in the UK.
(2) The red carpets are being unrolled, the paparazzi are installing their stepladders, the dressmakers are rushing their schmutters to the airport – the Cannes film festival is finally upon us.
(3) The city’s vibrant indoor market sees spice sellers from Morocco flogging their wares next to dressmakers from India.
(4) On the basis of precise assessment of the noise level and occupational exposure to noise and local vibrations are formed 4 groups: exposed to independent noise effect with intensity 90 and 100 db (spinners and dressmakers); exposed to combined effect of noise (91 and 103 db) and local vibrations, surpassing the maximum admissible norms respectively 2.5 and 3.5 times (miners of coal- and ore production).
(5) Two women carry what appears to be a Panasonic rice cooker Photograph: Aram Pan The video reveals many of the companies that took part, including: Dandong Chengyuan Import and Export (China) Dandong Jinyuan Trading Co (China) Gumunsan Trading Co Ltd (DPRK) Hamhung Jinxiang Trading Co Ltd. (China) Jangsubong JV (DPRK) Korea Computer Center (DPRK) Liaoning Huanghai Automotive Import and Export (China) Liaoning Shangda Industrial Development Co. Parazelsus (DPRK) Pyongsu Pharma (DPRK) Pyongyang Gemsy Dressmaking Machine Co. Ltd. (DPRK) Taedonggang Technology Co (DPRK) Watch the video: North Korea open for business (Aram Pan)
(6) The Queen's dressmaker, Hardy Amies , teeters on the brink of collapse after its Icelandic backer stops funding it In a speech at the UN, Gordon Brown calls for an end to the "age of irresponsibility" .
(7) The case of a 37-year-old woman, dressmaker, with congenital lower limb amelia is presented.
(8) We note your celebration of the strength and resilience of disabled people: Jenny Wren, whose body is twisted and painful and who makes her career as a dolls' dressmaker; Phil Squod, who can't walk straight and is disfigured, and who is hard-working, loyal and kind; Miss Flite, whose madness sees the truth; crazy Barnaby; hairless Maggie; Sloppy, whose head is too small.
(9) The bulk of fashion manufacturing [PDF] has gone offshore in the past 25 years, causing the art of dressmaking to almost disappear in the UK.
(10) Kate Winslet returns to town following last year’s A Little Chaos and the previous year’s Labor Day with The Dressmaker, an Australian romance co-starring Liam Hemsworth.
(11) Sew Over It has its own range of dressmaking patterns and kits for sale in John Lewis.
(12) Normal appearing matured cultures were subjected to a brief episode of impact trauma by dropping the flat surface of 25 to 105 mg dressmaker's pins from a height of 10 cm directly onto the exposed surface of the culture.
(13) The family had been living in the West End in London, her mother an accomplished dressmaker, her father a carpet retailer.
(14) The 19 operatives from 2 dressmaking mills all complained of work-related dermatitis.
(15) Perhaps the key to the mystery – the odd juxtaposition of commonsense and creative catharsis – can be found in Scarborough, where she was born in 1942, to an RAF serviceman, and a self‑employed dressmaker.
Scye
Definition:
(n.) Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garnment.