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A dressmaker is a person who makes custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and gown|evening gowns. Also called a mantua-maker (historically) or a modiste. The Oxford English Dictionary first records dressmaker in 1803. Throughout the nineteenth century and until the rise of ready-to-wear, most women who did not make their own clothes at home resorted to a local dressmaker, who copied or adapted the latest fashions from Paris based on printed illustrations called fashion plates. Today, custom dressmakers fill a niche between haute couture and ready-to-wear, and are most often consulted for one-of-a-kind special occasion dresses, such as wedding gowns and prom dresses.
Picken, Mary Brooks: The Fashion Dictionary, Funk and Wagnalls, 1957. Category:Fashion design Category:Clothing Category:Occupations job-stub fashion-stub This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Dressmaker".
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