Dress Maker Collection

Dressmakers workshop
Staff in the workroom of a dressmaker or outfitter. Clothes in various stages of completion are on dummies. The employees (all female apart from a solitary man with a tape measure around his neck)

Common courtesy training / W H Robinson
Training a husband in the act of common courtesy, using a dressmakers dummy, a piece of string and a determined wife. A quick jerk of the string and the husbands hat swiftly rearranges itself

Margaret Vyner, 1940
Margaret Vyner, wife of actor Hugh Williams, sporting an outfit made from wool designed by Norman Hartnell, who was at the time dress-maker to the Queen. 1940

European Lady and her Durzee or Tailor
An European Lady giving instrucions to her Durzee or Native Indian Tailor. (Plate 13 of 20). Date: 1813

Sales assistants outside a dress shop
A group of well-presented young women - presumably sales assistants - stand in front of the windows of a dressmakers and outfitters shop

The New Dress by Lewis Baumer
Advertisement for Clark & Co and J & P Coats, manufacturers of silks and cottons for dressmaking, showing a young woman admiring herself

Lilly Dache (1898-1989) French milliner who emigrated to America and was reported to have said - Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number

Edwardian Dressmaker
An Edwardian dressmaker, standing beside the pink silk dress she is in the process of making by hand

Social / Femme 7 of 10
A young French woman visits her dressmaker

The Little Dressmaker
Fashion plate showing a group of children in suitable costumes skating on a winters day

Woman Dressed 1913
A lady is fitted for an elegant evening outfit: " Will they like me in this?"

Costume / Dressmaking
COSTUME FITTING A well-off German woman is attended to by her dressmaker who makes the final adjustments to a new pink satin evening dress

At the Dressmaker 1895
A woman at the dressmakers stands in her chemise while the dressmaker takes some measurements

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