"Seamstress first to last" requires that we come up with a synonym for "seamstress" and then take the first letter and put it at the end.
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My dad was a tailor and my mom a seamstress.
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His mother, the former Myrtie Marguerite Peterson, was a seamstress.
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Her father was a kosher butcher, her mother a seamstress.
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Turns out, it's a nightclub/speakeasy, hidden behind a seamstress shop.
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In the comics, Maria works as a seamstress in New Orleans.
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His father was a failed shopkeeper and his mother a seamstress.
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"[Shoutout] to my seamstress," she wrote, tagging Zendaya as her inspiration.
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His father drove a bus, and his mother was a seamstress.
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His father was an engineer; his mother, a homemaker and seamstress.
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She settled in Washington and continued her work as a seamstress.
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After the war she worked as a seamstress and a secretary.
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Back then, people made their own clothes or hired a seamstress.
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The ground-floor tenant is Seamstress, a trendy craft cocktail bar.
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My parents were blue collar (machinist, sawmill operator, seamstress, cafeteria cook).
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My dad was a contractor, and my mom was a seamstress.
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Barrios, a seamstress, described a family torn apart by dysfunction in Venezuela.
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Sadie was a seamstress who worked at the glove factory in town.
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He worked as a waiter, and my great-grandmother as a seamstress.
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I wanted to be in fashion because my mother was a seamstress.
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His father drove a London bus, and his mother was a seamstress.
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But, two years ago, she took up sewing and became a seamstress.
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Her father was a longshoreman and union activist, her mother a seamstress.
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I like to say I followed my mother, who was a seamstress.
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His mother was a seamstress and hatmaker, his father a merchant marine.
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Vocations Hue Nguyen, 64, is a seamstress at Leidos in Webster, Tex.
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Hanna is a talented seamstress who learned to sew from her mother.
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A seamstress took the measurements which included inseam measurements of Earhart's trousers.
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That doesn't necessarily mean buying a sewing machine and becoming a seamstress.
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Medea, a talented seamstress, is having a hard time in New York.
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Anthony Bohlinger is an award-winning bartender currently at Maison Premiere and Seamstress.
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Sadiq Khan is the son of a London bus driver and a seamstress.
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"It's the 42-year-old seamstress or tailor," says Jordan Kassalow, VisionSpring's founder.
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"Katy is a seamstress and that is her first love," the actress said.
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Factory seamstress Sun Lijun is losing no sleep over the trade war, however.
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One patient opened a barber shop; another worked as an on-site seamstress.
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Her mother, Sarah Francis, who had also been a teacher, became a seamstress.
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Most of you guys don't know this, but my grandmother was a seamstress.
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He met Emma, a young seamstress who had also migrated from Puerto Rico.
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And every look was named for a different seamstress at the Valentino atelier.
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"My grandmother was a great seamstress and so was my mom," says Foley.
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After she was widowed in 1953, Murphy supported her two children as a seamstress.
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When the business inevitably went bust his mother took in work as a seamstress.
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My grandfather went from congressman to custodian overnight; my grandmother from socialite to seamstress.
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But she wouldn't tell someone that she's an excellent seamstress who makes amazing dresses.
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He worked as a craftsman, in Belgium, while living with Rose Beuret, a seamstress.
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"I hope I get a good settlement," the seamstress said as she left court.
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In Rockford, Nee worked at a paint company and Eunice worked as a seamstress.
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Tami Sagher ("Don't Think Twice") improvised the seamstress, giving her a thick Slavic accent.
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Anthony Perrault, then 25, another resident, was a seamstress and fashion designer with dreads.
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She has dressed dogs from many breeds in outfits sewn by a hired seamstress.
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His father died when Meza was 43, and his mother, a seamstress, raised him.
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His mother worked as a seamstress, an envelope stuffer and a toy-factory supervisor.
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Baker eventually found work as a seamstress and Russell sold magazines door to door.
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The store has an incredible seamstress who did all the repairs and tailoring for $300.
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"Tiny Dancer" was inspired by his first wife, Maxine Feibelman, who really was John's seamstress.
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She'll have to take it over to the company seamstress tomorrow to get some replacements.
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A doctor, a seamstress, children, their lives were frozen in a state of awful suspension.
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His mother, the former Anna Lena Floro, was a seamstress who owned a bridal shop.
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His father, Anthony, was a mason, and his mother, Elizabeth (Laganigro) Megliola, was a seamstress.
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One candidate is an indigent seamstress, another the then-teenage daughter of a wealthy family.
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Their mother, Adelaide Efunyemi Lijadu, was a seamstress who also worked in pharmacies, mixing medications.
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She worked as a seamstress and a cook, and learned accounting, while raising four kids.
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"The seamstress said she was really impressed with the quality of the fabric," Thornally said.
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He then, according to Woodson, purchased the freedom of his wife, a seamstress named Amelia.
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Hanna, a more accomplished seamstress than Laura, shares an almost comical aversion to making buttonholes.
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Loie Hollowell: My mom is a cartoonist and a seamstress' and my dad is a painter.
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His father, Harry, worked for an insurance company, and his mother, Elizabeth, was an occasional seamstress.
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Aisha Ahmad, 217, a seamstress for Goonj, says she was happy when the classes were announced.
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The groom's mother was a seamstress for a garment-industry company that was in Manhattan's Chinatown.
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A seamstress picks a bundle and does all the sewing on a vintage Pfaff sewing machine.
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On my way, I stop by a seamstress to pick up a pair of altered pants.
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The last of seven siblings, her father was a longshoreman and her mother was a seamstress.
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Her maternal great-grandparents were a pattern cutter on the Lower East Side and a seamstress.
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Travolta took audiences by surprise when he played the seamstress and mother of Tracy Turnbald (Nikki Blonsky).
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Before the war, Efthimia, Ms. Dina's elder sister, had trained as a seamstress at Ms. Mordechai's studio.
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Prior to this moment, Parks worked as a seamstress while joining her local chapter of the NAACP.
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Joseph's mother was a seamstress who spent much of his childhood in and out of psychiatric care.
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The play is about a Gulf Coast seamstress rebuilding her life after the death of her husband.
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Some people are selling masks, like a seamstress in Mexico and a fashion designer duo in Venezuela.
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In Mexico, Erendira Guerrero, a seamstress, is selling masks to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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MC says his seamstress team is practicing social-distancing while at work ... spacing out their sewing stations.
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A seamstress suddenly "decides to give up people," making clothes instead for mannequins, a car, a teakettle.
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Her most popular work is "Intimate Apparel," about a black seamstress in early-twentieth-century New York.
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His mother was a seamstress and growing up with sisters has inspired him to make women's wear.
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Aiello was born in Manhattan, the second youngest of six children, to a seamstress and a laborer.
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Heather Morris plays Jenna, a lonely wedding-dress seamstress who lives and works with her abusive aunt.
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Lottie, a drab seamstress, used to do the shimmy on Broadway and before that she played Juliet.
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He was born in Limoges in 1841, the sixth of seven children of a tailor and a seamstress.
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This is why Jake Gyllenhaal is the best actor alive and I'm just a blogger and mediocre seamstress.
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But with the help of a seamstress named Candy Harris, Cleverly was able to use the entire dress.
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My father worked as a cook in Chinese restaurants and my mother as a seamstress in garment factories.
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Widowed in 1953, Murphy supported her two children as a seamstress for most of her life, CNN reports.
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"Comrades, today our workshop beat the government quota with 150 percent!" a seamstress announces at the garment factory.
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"He has the delicate, feathery touch in his shot-making of a seamstress threading a needle," Daley wrote.
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To help the family earn money, she started a seamstress business there and was soon in high demand.
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She enrolled in school to become a seamstress, raising Lorette and living at her uncle's house in Lubumbashi.
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No death of a loved one is easy to bear; for Vera Ramey, a seamstress in Denison, Tex.
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Romana, a seamstress by training who never got beyond the fourth grade, began cooking when she was 10.
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She was raised largely by her mother, who held various jobs, including seamstress and jeweler, Mr. Maurer said.
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The groom's mother retired as a seamstress at Maxine of Hollywood, a women's clothing store in Vernon, Calif.
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Ana did not attend school; she worked as a seamstress as a child to help support her family.
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Alelia Murphy, a former seamstress and native New Yorker, died Saturday, her granddaughter Nefer Nekhet confirmed to CNN.
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"I live here," she says to a client who might otherwise have assumed she was just another seamstress.
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Women have a long history of working at Boeing, such as the first seamstress it hired in 1916.
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Her father, Luscious Billops, was a cook, and her mother, Alma (Gilmore) Billops, was a domestic and seamstress.
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According to me, what the fuck is this band doing to their outfits that they need a traveling seamstress?
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A foraged cork plugs the hole, while befriending a seamstress allows you to take the sail to get patched.
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They first landed in Texas, where Jung opened an American-style barbecue restaurant and Joung worked as a seamstress.
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His father, Frank, had a food import-export business, and his mother, the former Louise Bondelmonte, was a seamstress.
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The groom's mother, a retired seamstress, is the former owner of La Rosita, a thrift shop in Los Angeles.
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The seamstress knew all the right spots to give a little so as not to make the corset excruciating.
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Paulo Venzon grew up in Southern Brazil making things: His father is a woodworker, his mother is a seamstress.
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His mother took in seamstress work to support her daughter and two sons in the depths of the Depression.
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More important, she, Marilyn and a K.G.B. seamstress managed to plant a wire in Glenn's Yakult Swallows baseball jacket.
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One veteran seamstress from the factory said the situation had generally been improving as the factory added cooling units.
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The seamstress-turned-activist died in 2005; the archival collection has been available online at the library since 2016.
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But Mr. Lownes's friend got her mother, a seamstress, to mock up a prototype, and Mr. Hefner liked it.
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Hoa, a seamstress in another story, hits up her grocer for political donations, threatening a boycott if she's denied.
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Her father, René Alfred Riva, was a sign writer; her mother, the former Jeanne Fernande Nourdin, was a seamstress.
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Role: Self-employed seamstress Where: Caruaru, Brazil The last factory Ms. da Silva worked at produced men's street wear.
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His Pakistani immigrant parents raised him in public housing; his mother was a seamstress, and his father drove a bus.
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Mayen's dream of owning his own computer remained unfulfilled until a surprise from his mother, the camp's seamstress, changed everything.
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But with mounting debt and no increase in her wages or festival bonus, the seamstress said she had no choice.
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Maria worked as a seamstress and spent her days traveling all over the city, visiting rich women in their homes.
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Both his parents worked in the clothing industry, his father as a maker of mannequins, his mother as a seamstress.
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"Her parents did not care about her," Sasikala, 30, a seamstress who goes by one name, said of the girl.
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Beatriz, who toils as a seamstress at a garment factory, thinks Ana is supposed to help alleviate the financial stress.
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Each seamstress manufactures one or two jackets a day, depending on the complexity of the pattern and the customer's options.
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Moments before, a seamstress had cinched the boned shell of a black leotard up and over Ms. Oliver's hip line.
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One evening, Jyoti wore a tight orange dress she had asked Kiran — a talented seamstress — to make for the trip.
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Goat farmer, maid and seamstress, for example, are poorly paid jobs with no benefits that leave women vulnerable to abuse.
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All five of their children attended college, and this was done on the salary of a janitor and a seamstress.
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Born to a Basque seaman and a seamstress in 1895, he became an apprentice to a tailor at age 12.
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Born in Brooklyn in 1924, Chisholm was the daughter of a factory worker from Guyana and a seamstress from Barbados.
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But her world shifted one day when her mother sent her to a black seamstress to get some clothes mended.
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Jake's father (Greg Kinnear) tangles with Leonor (Paulina Garcia), the seamstress who has rented the first-floor shop for years.
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"She moved to the States in 1989 and got a job as a seamstress and an apron factory worker," Tran said.
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She was going home from work as a seamstress at a downtown department store and was tired all over, she remembers.
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Seamstress Theingi said she earned about 80 baht for a 15-hour day of making children's clothes and aprons for Starbucks.
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At one of Chanel's haute couture ateliers in Paris, a seamstress sews a temporary trim motif for the client's second fitting.
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She worked as a seamstress, a trade that he learned; he supported himself by making slipcovers when his music career stalled.
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She lived in the Jane Addams housing projects, worked as a seamstress by day and attended Herzl Junior College at night.
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If your old clothes need mending or don't fit well anymore, hire a good seamstress to make them look new again.
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His father was a butcher who worked in the Swift packing plant in Kearny, N.J.; his mother, Daisy, was a seamstress.
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In reality, Ross was a typical Philadelphia seamstress, who took in some work at some point sewing naval flags, and that's it.
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Deborah Chattaway, a 52-year-old seamstress, voted Labour in the 2017 election but said she would not vote for them again.
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If you are especially handy in this arena, you might be cut out for a side gig as a seamstress or tailor.
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Lizzie: According to Elton John, the tiny dancer is an LA lady, a blue jean baby, and a seamstress for the band.
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Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, refused to comply with a bus driver's order to give up her seat to a white passenger.
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On those days the seamstress hides Zuhour and her children in her sewing room — the only place her father never sets foot.
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Cecilia Laverde, a seamstress who has lived in the area for 20 years, stood proudly in front of her recently painted house.
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The seamstress, who is expecting arrears of up to 5,000 rupees, strains to listen over the slow whirring of the ceiling fan.
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Even better, all of the suits he wore in the pictures were made for him by his seamstress wife over the years.
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The Baltimore exhibit centers on the story of Ms. Krinitz, who fled Poland in 1942 as a seamstress after Nazis occupied Mniszek.
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His parents were immigrants from Ghana, and his mother was a seamstress, while his father was the manager of a paint company.
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Shaelon Smith, a 30-year-old seamstress from Brooklyn, led her friend by the arm toward a section devoted to healing stones.
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Their mother was a seamstress; she would often sew them matching clothes when they were babies, their cousin Abdul Qader Rahimi said.
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The last, "Various Incantations of a Tibetan Seamstress," is notable for the droll approach it takes to the practice of Tantric Buddhism.
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Her father was a shoemaker and, later, a maintenance worker at Ciba-Geigy, while her mother was a homemaker and sometime seamstress.
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She was the second oldest of 2700 children of Charles Lange, a ship's caulker, and Hortensia (Raymond) Lange, a homemaker and seamstress.
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Welding reminds her of sewing, she explained, how the precise handiwork in manipulating the material feels like the work of a seamstress.
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But despite strides made in professionalizing and gentrifying theater work, the actress retained a less respectable reputation than the seamstress or the schoolteacher.
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Think of Rosa Parks, the quiet seamstress who was only trying to sit on the bus after a long, tiring day of work.
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His workspace, lined with racks of his collections (so far, just three), houses a team of interns, a studio manager, and a seamstress.
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But as Pam Wiznitzer, creative director of Seamstress bar explains, coffee and booze share a lot of compatible flavors from the get-go.
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Author: "The Constant Economy: How to Create a Stable Society" (2009) Childhood: Son of a bus driver and a seamstress, immigrants from Pakistan.
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"[The showrunners] have been building this throughout: Sansa is a seamstress, she loves embroidery, she's learned how to be image-conscious," Oliveira said.
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We had a seamstress around to make clothes for us to make people into an elf or a deer or Santa or Rudolph.
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His mother was a seamstress, and his father, an alcoholic deemed too physically frail to enlist as a soldier, also lived at home.
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His father, Carlos, was an engineering professor at New York University, and his mother, Ellen Knox, was a seamstress in a design house.
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Peter Werner Schutz was born in Berlin on April 20, 1930, the son of Erna Brugger, a seamstress, and Leopold Schutz, a pediatrician.
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Chanel was founded by Coco Chanel, an aspiring actress and seamstress, with the opening of a small millinery boutique in Paris in 1910.
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Seamstress: Julie Dunbar An earlier version of a caption for the first picture accompanying this article misstated the price of a Verdura brooch.
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The woman on the right was a dedicated and creative seamstress, pictured alongside her husband in the 1960's in Tlkarem in Palestine.
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The store, roughly 3,000 square feet, has a nail salon, a bar stocked with beer and wine, a seamstress and ample fitting rooms.
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Ms. Brady, 83, was known for her seamstress skills and sold Avon products for many years, according to a death notice posted online.
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She began performing in regional theater, but also trained as a seamstress before she entered acting school in Paris in her mid-20s.
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Rosa Parks, a seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested on December 1, 1955, for not vacating her bus seat for a white passenger.
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His father, Ben, was a plumber, and his mother, the former Anna Goodman, was a seamstress who later worked in her husband's business.
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I started to feel better, and by the end of the 90-minute session we were laughing, pin cushion and seamstress, together as one.
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He then gave it to Dalida Faris, a seamstress in Ain al-Hilweh, a Palestinian camp on the outskirts of Saida in southern Lebanon.
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MOZART-LOVING MOTHER Zeffirelli was born in Florence on February 12, 1923, to Alaide Garosi Cipriani, a seamstress, and Ottorino Corsi, a cloth salesman.
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"Maduro has to improve this, stock the shelves," said seamstress Josefina Guevara, 37, who lives in a property "invasion" encouraged in the Chavez era.
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The earliest piece on display is a traditional, voluminous and elaborately decorated purple silk dress from 43 by the American seamstress M. A. Connelly.
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A seamstress mourns for her friend -- and an uncertain future Juana Tobar Ortega smiles as soon as she hears the knock on the door.
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Ms. Raja's husband, the novelist Domenico Starnone, has said in interviews that he grew up in Naples and that his mother was a seamstress.
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His mother was a seamstress; his father, a war veteran and a cook in a family restaurant, died when Mr. Lee was a teenager.
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She was born in São Carlos, a university city outside São Paulo, where her father was a bricklayer and her mother was a seamstress.
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I'm studying to become a seamstress at his boutique, so I can make magnificent clothes for myself that you can't buy prêt-à-porter.
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Her Twisted Seamstress scissors snick shut into a businesslike dagger, with the sensually curved pivot between blades and handle encased in corset-stitched leather.
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On Uztex's factory floor, a smiling seamstress holds up a T-shirt emblazoned with a slogan that seems to speak to the industry's aspirations.
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While Nora settles into her traces as a seamstress, Theresa falls for the black-haired, Clark Gable-ish Lothario she meets at a dance.
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Set in 1905 New York, the story follows an African-American seamstress who through letter writing courts a laborer working on the Panama Canal.
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One particularly Victorian design was a long ivory dress, whose sleeves alone might have served as the calling card for a seamstress seeking employment.
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Her father, Abram de Force, had rheumatism and could not work, so her mother, Catherine Doolittle Allen, supported their nine children as a seamstress.
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That scene with the black seamstress, the one who said your father wouldn't want you in her house -- why did that make a mark?
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The oldest girl began to work as a seamstress while the youngest ones went to school and they made extra money doing laundry and sewing.
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Turns out, every piece on Maison Cléo is entirely handmade in a workshop in the north of France by one and only one seamstress, Cléo.
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The frail seamstress Mimì and the fierce princess Turandot are two opposite poles of Puccinian womanhood, and both are characters that can seem one-dimensional.
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"Our technologies enable the micro-manipulation and macro-manipulation of the fabric to mimic what a seamstress could do," says Palaniswamy Rajan, the company's CEO.
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Every single time we're in a fitting I have to have my seamstress with me to measure her waist because she's losing so much weight.
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Her fear didn't stop her and she set up a design studio at home, assembling a small team that includes a pattern maker and seamstress.
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His sudden so-confident proposal, after a picnic on a white farm, when he said he knew a good seamstress to make her wedding dress.
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On October 22, 2004, Voridis transferred all rights to an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir known in English as "the Seamstress" to Talara Holdings.
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We spoke to Yepez about her new gig, how she got her start in the industry and that time she played seamstress for Emily Ratajkowski.
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She takes after the mother, who was no seamstress but a bar girl, plain and simple, and she drinks and smokes rongony all day long.
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Ms. Brus easily found work as a seamstress and later a fashion designer and Mr. Brus found new artistic expression in collaborations with other artists.
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Who, after all, is not moved by the story of the doomed lovers Rodolfo, the would-be poet, and Mimi, the seamstress stricken with tuberculosis?
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His mother, Estery, was a seamstress who belonged to a sewing group, and the artist later credited her for encouraging his boyhood love of art.
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Chinese artist Cao Rung is a seamstress of the utmost skill, receiving accolades for a hyperrealistic recreation of her grandparents' home constructed entirely with embroidered cloth.
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The film is set in a fashion house in 1950s London, a world the pair experienced, Brown as a ladies' seamstress and Clark a dressmaking teacher.
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She was by then a seamstress and mother of four living in a neighborhood that had become synonymous with the blight and disinvestment engulfing the city.
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Caron, who wanted to hide her curves, worked with head seamstress Madame Karinska to add decorative braids to the front of the jacket, distracting the audience.
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She grew up there with an immigrant widow mother who didn't vocally support Chung's pageantry, but nevertheless gossiped about her daughter's success with fellow seamstress workers.
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Most of his designs feature the cropped faces of popular politicians, or eye-catching campaign slogans cut from the posters and sewn together by a seamstress.
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Parks worked as a seamstress in a department store but was fired after her arrest, although she was told it was not because of the boycott.
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His father, Louis, owned an Army-Navy store with his brother and then operated a notions store with his wife, the former Yetta Scheer, a seamstress.
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Maria Gomez, a 53-year-old seamstress, arrived from San Cristobal in northern Venezuela to buy her elderly mother the Losartan pills she needs for hypertension.
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My mother is an excellent and inventive seamstress who, when we lived in New York, had a small, handmade children's line that was sold at Bloomingdale's.
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On the Thursday morning before the Easter Sunday bombings, Zahran's sister-in-law knocked on the door of a neighbor who did seamstress work near Kattankudy.
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Ms. Safir became a seamstress, working her way up to a fitter position at Giorgio Armani while finding clients to sell her creations on the side.
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His father, Meyer, owned a garment business; his mother Anna (Alpert) Gendel, had been a seamstress on the Lower East Side of Manhattan before her marriage.
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His partner, Nadeeka, is a former seamstress who filed her claim in 2007 after a man from an influential family sexually abused her in her homeland.
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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.
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Emma is working as a seamstress (though every inch a gentlewoman), and when the duke proposes at their very first meeting, what choice does she have?
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The boycott was called after Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger.
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At their home in Southern California, his mother cooked three meals a day, leaving her work as a seamstress at noon to prepare the family lunch.
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I would also suggest that, in the way her sculptures are sectioned into planes, that she rhymes seamstress with sculptor, pattern maker with carpenter and architect.
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Then the nun sent in Eva, a seamstress, who along with another lay employee, Irene, was one of the only two people that Sally felt safe with.
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As show lore has it, Sansa is an accomplished seamstress and has always made her own clothes, so they are a direct statement about how she feels.
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But to elaborate more, it was a bubble hem (shudder!) that I had the seamstress cut out to a high-low [hem] (I drew her a picture).
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I don't have the time or money for that, I thought, and not all of my clothes are expensive or precious enough to invest in a seamstress.
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"I recently found a local seamstress who can copy existing pieces, so I had my favorite dress and skirt recreated in a few different fabrics," she says.
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Muth Ron, a seamstress for more than 10 years at a factory that supplies Marks & Spencer, said fears of being left empty handed had spurred the strikes.
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Afterwards, workers formed a labor union, called the Seamstress Labor Union of September 19—the date of both the 1985 earthquake and the 7.1 earthquake on Tuesday.
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Adriana Salame-Aspiazu lived with the nine-foot-tall Meeseeks, hand-stitched by her seamstress mom (who doesn't watch the show), crammed into her apartment for weeks.
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Khawla al-Khallaf, a seamstress, lived near Naim Square, where families used to stroll at sundown and the loudspeakers played the songs of the Lebanese crooner Fairuz.
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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.
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So the friends ordered a few dozen beach towels and travel pillows from a discount website and had a local seamstress sew the pillows to the towels.
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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.
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In interviews with the Italian press, Starnone has said that his mother was a seamstress and his father an angry, jealous man who worked for the railway.
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Oneh is a seamstress, weaving thread with a loom to make clothing for her village; she, too, has a family beyond those immediately present in the village.
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The Betsy Ross flag, with its circle of 13 stars for the original 13 Colonies, is named for the possibly apocryphal story of the seamstress who made it.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sudha seldom thought about the pills she took to ease her period pains during 2000-hour shifts as a seamstress in southern India.
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Growing up in multicoloured Harlem as Lewis Alcindor, the son of a police officer and seamstress, he says he did not realise he was black until third grade.
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Matt and Sweat used tools that were allegedly smuggled in by the prison's seamstress, Joyce "Tillie" Mitchell – who allegedly had a sexual relationship with Matt, the report says.
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She was born around 1773 on George Washington's plantation in Virginia, Mount Vernon, with a white indentured servant as a father and an enslaved seamstress as a mother.
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He seized on the idea of an athletic cup and, while still in college, secured a $20,000 student loan and hired a seamstress to create a dozen prototypes.
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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.
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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.
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People sometimes mistook Johnson's mother for white, and when she applied for seamstress jobs at department stores in the 1920s and '30s, she chose not to correct them.
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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.
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Ms. Haddad is the author of several books, including "I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman" and "The Seamstress' Daughter," a novel about the Armenian genocide.
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Here, she worked as a seamstress in the garment center and studied English at night, where she met her husband, Albert Kimmelstiel, who had been imprisoned at Auschwitz.
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Her mother was a fashion designer and a seamstress who stimulated her daughter's creative streak; the little girl grew up in a household surrounded by fabrics and textiles.
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The influencer documented her sewing process on YouTubeAs a self-taught seamstress, Stevenson said she knew that sewing the pajamas would be easy enough for others to recreate.
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The angled planes thrusting outward at the tops of her sculptures suggest open lids, as well as dress patterns (diagrams for a seamstress) turned into three-dimensional objects.
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Tobar Ortega, a seamstress, is undocumented; after spending the last six years checking in with ICE annually, she was ordered in April to leave the country by May 31.
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They have the best styling, there's two hours of hair and makeup, and there's a seamstress to hand-sew you into your clothes so that every curve looks perfect.
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This particular attempt worked — at least for a while — thanks to the involvement of Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell (Patricia Arquette in the show), a seamstress in the prison's tailor shops.
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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 2500D print?
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Her mother was employed as a seamstress and became the personnel director for the Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority when she and her husband later returned to Puerto Rico.
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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.
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One of the women I interviewed, Zenoria Abdus-Salaam, told me that Rosa Parks, who was a seamstress, helped her with her sewing homework in her home economics class.
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After her father lost his money in the crash of 1929, the family moved to Bronxville, N.Y., where her father was a building manager and her mother a seamstress.
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She is a seamstress and like many Portuguese women with swollen ankles and a hunched back, she is a master of thread: lace making, crochet, sewing, weaving... you name it.
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She is the translator of César Aira's The Seamstress and the Wind and has been a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow and a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Argentina.
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He was one of 212 children born to Joseph Leonard Hopkins, a carpenter who built three family homes, and Iva Louise Hopkins, a seamstress who made all her children's clothes.
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Born the son of a fisherman and a seamstress in 1895 in Getaria, in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa, Spain, Balenciaga opened his first boutique in San Sebastián in 1919.
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Somewhere in King's Landing, there is surely a seamstress whipping up a treasure trove of champion dresses for the Queen Mother to wear while executing all her future diabolical plans.
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Just as Mahalakshmi finally received her payout, another drama began, when a garment factory van overturned near the state capital of Chennai, injuring seamstress M. Muniyammal and 11 other people.
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The man behind the stick when I popped into Dante to test out the Old Fashioned was Eloy Pacheco, an accomplished mixologist and alum of the now-defunct Seamstress NYC.
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Born in Ghana and raised in a working-class neighborhood in West London by his mother, a seamstress, he has a background atypical of those of British Vogue editors past.
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According to Variety, Making the Cut also gives each designer a seamstress to create the basic fit of the clothing, since that's how it works in the real design world.
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An artist and professional pattern designer and seamstress, she moved to New York in the early 1980s from Toronto, after meeting her husband in the Revolutionary War re-enactment community.
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"Blinded by the Light" tells the story of Javed, the son of Pakistani immigrants -- his mother works as a seamstress and his father loses his job in an auto factory.
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Indeed, for women like the unnamed seamstress in Santeramo in Colle, working away on yet another coat at her kitchen table, reform of any sort feels a long way off.
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Elizabeth Keckley, a skilled seamstress whose dresses for Abraham Lincoln's wife are displayed in Smithsonian museums, supported her enslaver's entire family and still earned enough to pay for her freedom.
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Allan Howard Steinfeld was born in Manhattan on June 7, 1946, to Sam Steinfeld, who worked in the import-export field, and the former Faye Litsky, a seamstress and homemaker.
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I interviewed Dorothy Rudolph, a retired seamstress, whose husband, a carpenter, built their small clapboard home himself, some years after his family fled land owned by whites in the 1960s.
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An Appraisal In 221, a seamstress named Katherine Berger married a trolley-car conductor named John Branca and spent half of the next 215 years pregnant, giving birth 285 times.
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It had been my mum's dream, she said, to become a seamstress, and she made many of the outfits for my Action Man (the British version of G.I. Joe) herself.
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"I think everybody's been a little aggravated," Wilma Counts, a retired seamstress who has voted for both men, said before a lunch of smoked sausage, sliced peaches and yellow cake.
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Eventually, she moved back to London, where she worked for a costumier making burlesque and theater outfits, and then to Bristol to set up as an independent seamstress and designer.
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Ebony G. Patterson made a maximalist tribute to victims of violence in her home country of Jamaica, while Joel Otterson crafted work recalling his parents' professions as a seamstress and plumber.
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After evacuating her home in Fort McMurray, Canada, on Tuesday, Boissonneault learned that her wedding dress, which was still in the care of a seamstress, had been destroyed in the fires.
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"I can donate breast milk to other children, and get payments for it"—earning nearly as much in one day as she could previously earn in one week as a seamstress.
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The seamstress, who is paid little for the eight-hour day she spends cutting cuffs for branded shirts, was forced to call on money lenders to keep her children in school.
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His mother, Annie B. Cunningham, was a seamstress and, as Mr. Whitten put it in a 1994 interview with Bomb magazine, "a believer in education"; she later opened a private kindergarten.
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His mother worked as a seamstress, and as a child in southeast London, he would help her fix the stitching on the garments she would bring home from work after school.
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Ms. Barringer, a seamstress and freelance costume technician, has ample space to work, as does Mr. Eisenberg, who does commercial design and fabrication, in addition to his own papier-mâché projects.
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In One Mile from Heaven (1937), for example, a white woman reporter named Tex investigates the truth behind a light-skinned Black seamstress (Washington) raising a white girl as her own.
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The 13-star flag, which was America's first, is said to have been designed by Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross (though historians note that lore was propagated by her grandson and never confirmed).
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For a few years, he lived on rum and drugs out in the bush at the north of the island with Heloise, a Sakalava seamstress, and during this time Harena was born.
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An expert seamstress and amateur dress designer, she was the subject of a New York Times article in 1971 describing how she had made her own gown for a Washington gala event.
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Ms. Bravo, a seamstress, said that before the crisis she and her husband used to take their children to the beach or to a park near the center of Caracas on weekends.
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When my mami was growing up in Santiago in the Dominican Republic in the 1970s, her mother, a widowed seamstress, cut costs by feeding her five daughters meat only once per week.
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In her videos, I've watched her cut endless yards of red wool fabric on the floor of her apartment while explaining why a medieval seamstress may have taken the approach she's replicating.
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In the film, Winslet plays a couture seamstress who returns to her hometown to seek revenge against those who banished her when she was a child for her involvement in a fatal accident.
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Having left her village in the north western part of country, Rina now works as a seamstress for 60 euros a month; 7 days a week and lives in a single bedroom shack.
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In the workroom, a seamstress shows me how a fabric is cut from the toile and prepared for embroidery (L); the bodice of a jacket being measured to be fitted with arms (R).
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In The Dressmaker, Kate Winslet's character Tilly returns to the town that spurned her as a child — bringing an arsenal of seamstress skills that she uses to curry favor with her former tormentors.
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This is a long way from the dirt-floored home of his grandparents in Újfehértó, Hungary, and from the modest apartment of his parents—a textile factory clerk and a seamstress—in Budapest.
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I took the dress to a seamstress once, and was told the fabric was too delicate to repair, which felt like a metaphor for how emotionally damaged I felt after being so violated.
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Shirt seamstress A. Dhanalakshmi welcomed the ruling, saying she struggled to get by on the 6,000 rupees she earns each month, working an average 45-hour week at an export firm near Chennai.
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With a buttery voice and unparalleled musical skills, the star — who entered the University of Pennsylvania at just 16 years old — says his mother, Phyllis, a seamstress, was his first and biggest fan.
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Little is known of Ms. Dinoire's personal history — she insisted on her privacy — but the hospital said she had worked as a seamstress before the surgery, was divorced and had two adult daughters.
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In Laura Purcell's uncanny Gothic mystery, THE POISON THREAD (Penguin, paper, $16), a 13-year-old seamstress named Ruth Butterham is put on trial for plying her sewing skills to murder her mistress.
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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.
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My mother, who had come from a wealthy family in Hong Kong and had once planned to be a nurse, was only able to find work as a seamstress in a garment sweatshop.
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It's the story of my own mother, who left all that was familiar to work as a seamstress in the garment industry in Los Angeles in order to build more opportunities for her children.
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But she encounters seemingly constant obstacles, including a potential employer who won't hire her as a seamstress; a mother (Assi Levy) who won't let her travel alone; and even local children, who mock her.
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On December 1, 1955, Parks, a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back of the bus after a long day of work.
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"There will always be exceptions," the Times on Monday quoted Trump as saying when asked how his controversial proposal would apply to Khan, the son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver and a seamstress.
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The process begins with Olivia Douchez, the première, or chief, of a 40-person flou atelier, who works with her three seconds to make the pattern and then assigns it to a master seamstress.
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"I know I am not paid what I deserve, but salaries are very low here in Puglia and ultimately I love what I do," said another seamstress, from the attic workshop in her apartment.
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While in the past, people made their own clothes or knew the seamstress who sewed them, and maybe lived down the street, today, the vast majority of clothing is manufactured outside the United States.
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"Today, on the second official Rosa Parks Day, we honor a seamstress and a servant, one whose courage ran counter to her physical stature," said Mayor Steven Reed, the city's first African American mayor.
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Over the course of the last year, the 24-year-old seamstress and designer has thrown out all the items of clothing in her wardrobe and replaced them, piece by piece, with handmade garments.
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In experiment after experiment in regular human cells (not embryos), this now-classic use of CRISPR-Cas9 shreds the targeted DNA and the double helix stitches in a replacement like a seamstress darning a sock.
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So eager were locals for martyrs that Virginia "Jennie" Wade, a young seamstress shot by a stray bullet while baking for Union soldiers and the only civilian casualty of the battle, was pressed into service.
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In 280, widowed seamstress Lena Bryant began making maternity clothing out of a storefront she rented for $211 a month, including a stretch waistband dress that would launch her into the echelons of retail royalty.
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Instead, in Russia my mom worked various odd jobs as a seamstress and my dad had several jobs, including work in a bodega-like stand in Moscow and smuggling in goods like VCRs from Singapore.
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Her mother, Harriet McNaught, a nurse and seamstress, left her womanizing husband and raised Janet and her two sisters, Joan and Sheila, in Avonbridge, a village in central Scotland, where they lived with Harriet's father.
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Film Club In this short documentary, "Inside a Wilson Football Factory," a seamstress talks about her long career at the Wilson Sporting Goods factory in Ada, Ohio, the source of the N.F.L.'s handmade footballs.
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INTIMATE APPAREL Lincoln Center Theater presents a new opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, based on Lynn Nottage's 2004 play about an African-American seamstress in 1905 New York and her quest for romance.
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She says the seamstress intended to quit her job so she could be home with her daughter because she wouldn't have had the flexibility to take time for a medical procedure that wasn't her own.
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"If I had asked daddy in the summer of 1958 if he was a racist, I'm not sure what he would have said," she wrote about the time of her encounter with the black seamstress.
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The hope is that giving some startup capital and some business skills helps recipients build a small ongoing enterprise — a small vegetable or dairy farming operation, say, or a bicycle messenger service, or a seamstress shop.
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That was the year that Virgil Abloh — the Illinois-raised then-22-year-old son of two Ghanaian immigrants (his mother was a seamstress) — graduated from the civil engineering program at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
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One surrogate at the clinic, a shy woman who for privacy reasons wanted to give only her first name, Bibha, said that she earned just a few hundred dollars a year as a seamstress in India.
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The seamstress said it is her biggest victory since being elected president in October of the workers' union at Jeans Factory Limited in Dhaka, amid a push to improve conditions across the global fashion supply chain.
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Job positions included that of a typist, secretary to the stars and executive secretary, costume designer, seamstress, telephone operator, hairdresser, script girl, film retoucher, title writer, publicity writer, musician, film editor, director, and producer, among others.
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Fatima Fanny Ceesay, 24, a seamstress, said anything that Mr. Jammeh left behind should have been seized after he left the country, even if those items were part of an agreement to persuade him to go.
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She still has a job as a seamstress, but her world has changed because of the nation's financial crisis: Her husband died last year of a heart ailment after being unable to get blood pressure medicine.
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Led by Sir Antonio Pappano, the opera house's music director, and the acclaimed British stage director Richard Jones, this romantic Puccini opera depicts the 19th-century love affair between a poor French poet and a seamstress.
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Robinette Barmer, 61, a former seamstress and caterer from Baltimore now on a disability pension, said that without Obamacare she could not afford the various medications she takes for ailments such as asthma and high blood pressure.
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"I met the seamstress that put together Ariana's version, and they told me straight up that Ari's team was in love with my look and they wanted a repeat of it," Moan told "ET Live" on Thursday.
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The performance has the feel of a silent film: Ms. De Witte, a trained seamstress, runs what looks like an old-fashioned workshop from behind her sewing machine, while Mr. Cabrol clowns and juggles to her cues.
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This two-hour special looks back at an escape from prison that captivated the United States when, in June 2015, two inmates at a correctional facility in Dannemora, N.Y., escaped with the help of a prison seamstress.
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At the Saint Laurent atelier in Paris, a seamstress spoke of Mr. Bergé's unstinting financial help to terminally ill colleagues, but another woman employed there called him a "misogynist" who promoted only men to the higher rungs.
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Before "The Rose Tattoo" reaches toward ecstasy, it wallows in despair; there is a wanton, operatic hysteria to the play and to its heroine, Serafina delle Rose, a Sicilian-immigrant seamstress with the soul of a diva.
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Not an Ostrich contains photographs from these collections, depicting every ethnicity, most major religions, and many different professions from seamstress to pipe fitter, fishermen, farmers, ranchers, food processing assembly lines, maritime sailors, grape pickers, fashion models, and photographers.
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Saar, a Los Angeles native who turns 90 this year, began her work in the visual arts as a graphic designer and costume maker — a trade that is deeply personal to Saar, as her mother was a seamstress.
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One girl's remarkable recovery Nepal, a year after the quake: 'Help us' Bangladesh: Seamstress becomes survivor Reshma spent 211 days buried underground in pitch-black darkness after the factory where she worked collapsed, killing more than 227,211 people.
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An anonymous seamstress in her kitchen in Puglia, Italy, was among contract workers who said they are paid about 24 euros to sew an entire coat for luxury fashion brands, work that takes about four to five hours.
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His father, José Agustín Gatica Silva, a rancher, died when Lucho, as he was called, was 853, and his seven siblings banded together to support their mother, Juana, who moved into the town center and became a seamstress.
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Vetiver is a grass with fragrant roots that Rasoanantenaina — who started out selling underwear she made from her seamstress grandmother's scraps — has championed as a natural fiber well-suited for weaving fantastic-looking rugs, mats, baskets and totes.
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After her husband died, Maria Teresa Alves Ramos Mendes, a 79-year-old seamstress, was told by her landlord that the rent on the apartment where they had lived for more than 30 years would increase several-fold.
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They can turn what might have been a general sightseeing trip to an ancestral homeland into one that includes a visit to the church where your great-grandfather worshiped or the factory where your grandmother was a seamstress.
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Here are four things to know ahead of his arrival at British Vogue's headquarters in Hanover Square: Born in Ghana, Mr. Enninful was raised by his seamstress mother in the Ladbroke Grove area of London, alongside five siblings.
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Around the same time, a Brooklyn shopkeeper named Morris Michtom and his wife Rose began manufacturing "Teddy's bear," and a German seamstress, Margarete Steiff, started a line of soft toy bears through her company, which she founded in 1880.
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As the most famous seamstress in American history comes back around for another 15 minutes of fame, it's worth dusting off a history book to see what's behind the flag that was sewn into the new line of shoes.
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A 62-year-old retired clerical worker and part-time seamstress, Haywood has waged her campaign for years, patiently sharing her trove of documents that she says proves her lineage to Johnson, giving community talks and news media interviews.
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LIPA, Philippines (Reuters) - When demand and prices of face masks shot up after a small yet destructive volcano south of the Philippine capital suddenly spewed volcanic ash, a 61-year-old seamstress sprang into action to help her neighbors.
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At the bottom of the chain is a large pointed "needle," which Clapton previously told me is a symbol of both a bond with sister Arya (whose sword shares the same name) and her own identity as a gifted seamstress.
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Moving to the United States at age eight, the young Luchita bucked the wishes of her seamstress mother, who wanted her to pursue dressmaking, and studied fine arts at the all-girls Washington Irving High School in New York City.
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The 60-year-old member of Congress, who worked as a seamstress and trader before getting into politics, pointed to steady economic growth under Morales, one of the most reliable in a volatile region, helped by a natural resource boom.
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"I hope that now with these blackouts in Caracas they can do something, that everyone reacts," said Maria Melendez, a seamstress in the western city of Punto Fijo who said she has had to replace damaged appliances during previous blackouts.
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The paper was based in Harlem, but the family lived in a working-class Italian-American community in the Bronx, together with Kelley's maternal grandmother, a seamstress, who was the daughter of a slave and the granddaughter of a Confederate colonel.
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"Also, part of my tweet mentions that I [later] met the seamstress that put together Ariana's version, and they told me straight up that Ari's team was in love with my look and they wanted a repeat of it," Moan said.
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His father, José, was a miner who took the family to the town of Silver City; his mother, Bennie, worked as a department store clerk, seamstress, photographer's assistant and nurse before focusing on promoting the musical talents of her children.
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I originally designed my own wedding dress and when I went to have it fitted just ten days before my wedding, I was told by my seamstress that he wouldn't be able to alter it because my bust was 'too big.
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Even after she was too ill to wear much more than nightgowns — a bout of rheumatic fever damaged her heart, leading to a series of strokes that left her partially paralyzed — she had them specially made by a French seamstress.
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As Esther Mills, in Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel" (2004), an expert seamstress who succeeds in her lingerie business but fails at love, Davis exhibited a particularly arresting reserve, a quality of silence that translates with equal power to her screen performances.
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Rosalina Mantuano, a seamstress for 45 years, began sewing dozens of colorful masks using scrap fabric in her atelier and gave it away for free to her neighbors in Lipa city, just 20 km (12 miles) from the Taal volcano.
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The mother, Lidia, a Milanese, is the opposite: immovably serene, playing solitaire and chatting with the seamstress when she is not journeying happily here and there to bring clean clothes to the men in the family who are in jail.
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Hats were not only status symbols, but a gateway to the fashion world: Famous milliners who turned into full-blown fashion designers include Gabrielle Chanel (better known as Coco), Jeanne Lanvin and (two centuries earlier) Rose Bertin, Queen Marie-Antoinette's seamstress.
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In high school, after becoming irritated by the idea of sticking to gender roles and feeling uninspired to pursue the "expected five" career opportunities available for women (nurse, teacher, secretary, shopgirl and seamstress) Spencer set out to express her creativity in fashion.
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Ms. Rudolph, a retired seamstress, and her husband, a carpenter, live in a tiny, white clapboard house that he built after he, his parents and his siblings fled their home on land owned by a white man who forbade the family to vote.
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With three seasons now under their belt, Kruszewski and his business partner, Saam Emme, finally have a seamstress, an intern program, and a local manufacturer in place (and the collection isn't entirely produced in their compact, fabric-strewn studio-slash-office space anymore!).
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William Johnson is a good ploughboy & handy with horses Joseph Johnson is a good house boy Martha is a good cook, washer & ironer and seamstress Lewis is a first rate coach painter and performer on the violin being the leader of a band.
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With every look named after a seamstress from the Valentino atelier because, the creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli said, "I wanted to dignify their work and give them recognition," it was an acknowledgment that there's no hiding behind history or "the dream" anymore.
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If our students were attending or even hosting a Super Bowl party, the article "A Seamstress Who Handed Off to the N.F.L. for 48 Years" gives them an entrance into an interesting conversation about something other than their favorite team or player.
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In a radical about-turn, Chanel — founded by Coco Chanel, an aspiring actress and seamstress, with the opening of a small millinery boutique in Paris in 1910 — released its annual results on Thursday for the first time in its 210-year history.
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As Dimayuga poked at the ground with a shovel, Leon explained that when he was a kid his mother worked non-stop, as a seamstress and in two Chinese restaurants that she ran in Los Angeles with eight of her eleven siblings.
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Each of these sparkling visual salads of fabric, paper and thread reflects the artist's work as a seamstress (she made all her clothes) and a cook (she opened a Greenwich Village restaurant) as much as her interest in Pollock and Kurt Schwitters.
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She cited one sub-plot showing her struggling to work as a seamstress for an Israeli socialite while raising the Cohens' children alone, and another where a Mossad handler takes a romantic interest in her while her husband is away under cover.
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Pair it with "VELVET," on Netflix, starring Miguel Ángel Silvestre ("Sense8"), about the heir to a fashion emporium in 1950s Madrid who loves a seamstress there (Paula Echevarría), and "THE COLLECTION," on Amazon, about a Paris fashion house after the Nazi occupation.
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Here are a few of the major themes that emerged: More From VICE: From Sex Worker to Seamstress They Want to Feel WantedThe vast majority of men said that feeling desired by their partner was the single biggest factor affecting their own interest in sex.
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"I am okay with the little I get ... what's important to me is it's what I love to do," said Aya, who used to work as a seamstress near the Syrian capital Damascus, a job she did not enjoy, but the work helped her family.
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Others have a DIY collage aesthetic with the high contrast of a Xerox machine, from Shotgun Seamstress by Osa Ateo in Tacoma, Washington, a "zine by, for, and about black punks, queers, feminists, outsider artists, and musicians," to The Point with discussions on public housing.
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The daughter of an electrician and a seamstress who immigrated from Spain in the 1960s, Ms. Hidalgo, 57 and a mother of three, was herself born in Cádiz, did not speak French when she moved to Lyon, and became a French citizen as a teenager.
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In this video, Otterson talks about coming of age in a working-class family, and how every stitch he makes and every steel pipe he casts is a kind of homage to his mother, who was a seamstress, and his father, who was a plumber.
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But rather than including a flag with 50 stars as part of its design, the sneaker's heel featured the 13-star model, a design associated with the Revolutionary War, the Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross and, for some people, a painful history of oppression and racism.
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Over the past week, Iris Friedman, the vice president of a local school board in rural upstate New York, and a seamstress friend have been making fabric face masks fitted with swatches of a vacuum cleaner bag and filters from the nearby hardware store.
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The fable-like plot is built around the unlikely destruction and resurrection of Serafina the seamstress, a proper, corset-wearing wife and mother whose life is unhinged when the husband whom she worships — body and soul, but particularly body — dies in a truck crash.
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Raised mostly by his mother, a seamstress in a sweatshop, he grew up first in Williamsburg, before it was synonymous with boutique bourgeois culture, and then moved to East New York, which at the time was one of the most violent neighborhoods in the country.
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A former resident named Sherry Huestis told a story that she had confided to her sister decades before: In the middle of the night, the seamstress, Eva, would sometimes pull Sherry out of bed to keep her company as she walked the hallways checking the doors.
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In interviews, Sedaris seldom opens up about her upbringing or personal life, opting to share minor and often bizarre blips of information instead, such as the fact that her outfits are made by her friend and seamstress Mary Adams, who has nine and a half fingers.
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Ms. Murdoch recalled a conversation with Mr. Geffen about his scrappy upbringing in Brooklyn, where his mother, a seamstress who had emigrated from Ukraine, ran a corset shop and his father, an intellectual with not much taste for work, read a lot but made little money.
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While his confections—from their inception as inky sketches, to the embroidered quotes he hides in their linings, to the final snip of a seamstress' scissors—are multi-layered, exacting works of art, Reynolds's character is mottled with ugly corruption (rather like Dorian Gray, with a twist).
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Never one to stoop to ready-to-wear looks you can find at the pet shop, Lola has her own seamstress that takes the styles everyone is talking about — from Gucci, Prada, Chanel and more — and turns them into outfits perfectly tailored to Lola's tiny Yorkie body.
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"The way that I saw the space was an encouragement—an encouragement for me to develop myself and push myself harder as an artist," says Anthony Perrault, a seamstress and musician who had been living at Ghost Ship for about a year before the fire happened.
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The quilts, which the painter began making in 1980 — inspired by Tibetan thangkas, her seamstress and designer mother and her great-great-great-grandmother, who quilted as a slave — combine painted canvas, fabric piecework and handwritten text to reclaim unexplored corners of African-American life and history.
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Ms. Allen, a 27-year-old seamstress and mother of two from Aiken, S.C., was in York to visit family members and was headed to buy groceries with four relatives when they drove into an area controlled by a white gang known as the Newberry Street Boys.
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Shoppers will choose between two basic shirt styles in white poplin, one longish and one cropped, and then work with a seamstress to customize the piece as they please, which might mean adding a bib, ruffles, floral embroidery, a feather detail or white-on-white monogramming.
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The city is the site of the Montgomery bus boycott, a year-long civil rights protest that started in 1955, led by black seamstress Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white patron, as the law then required, and was famously jailed.
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Personal:Birth date: December 1, 1945 Birth place: Honolulu, Hawaii Birth name: Bette Davis Midler Father: Fred Midler, house painter Mother: Ruth (Schindel) Midler, seamstress Marriage: Martin von Haselberg (1984-present) Children: Sophie Education: Attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa Other Facts:Named after actress Bette Davis.
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Yet by definition couture — clothes that take a seamstress hundreds and even thousands of hours to make by hand, which are meant to last over decades and made for a single individual, to her body and her specifications — derives its worth from the experience of intimacy.
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The Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov, in his Met debut, was especially impressive as the young poet Rodolfo, bluff in horseplay with his bohemian fellows; tender in his unsettling, bumbling encounter with the seamstress Mimi; powerful in his impassioned outbursts of love and despair, showing real metal in the voice.
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The Scottish actress Ashley Jensen has built a sparkling career on playing the sidekick: There's Maggie, Ricky Gervais's dim-bulb best friend in "Extras," the BBC-HBO sitcom; the seamstress Christina in "Ugly Betty," the now-canceled ABC show; and the frenemy Fran in "Catastrophe," the current Amazon hit.
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Ms. Roitfeld and Mr. Plein continued forth, often requesting that the seamstresses, most of them Brooklyn-based Russian-speaking women working diligently in a quiet room a few feet away (lryna Velychko, the head seamstress, is from Ukraine and speaks only Italian and Russian), alter one detail or another.
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" The new mayor, who is the fifth of eight children to a bus driver and a seamstress, told the Observer on Sunday: "[Goldsmith's team] used fear and innuendo to try to turn different ethnic and religious groups against each other — something straight out of the Donald Trump playbook.
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From the sweet-natured but naive brace-face in the hit series Ugly Betty (123–2010) to the seamstress who defies her bullying mom and works her way into the Ivy League in the 2001 film Real Women Have Curves, Ferrera's roles push us to be better versions of ourselves. 2.
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My grandmother was a seamstress and was the first person who taught me how to sew—the first person who taught me how to look at a garment, find the things I did and didn't like, to copy them on newspaper, to create a sewing pattern, and construct a garment.
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"We faced a lot of challenges but I think my mother and father prepared me well for the challenges that I faced," says Legend, 40, of his humble beginnings growing up with his mother Phyllis, a seamstress, and father Ronald, a factory worker, along with his three siblings in Springfield, Ohio.
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She won a Tony (for her role as Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave and a seamstress and confidante to the first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, in the 1973 Broadway play "Look Away"), an Emmy (for her supporting role in the 1977 TV mini-series "Roots") and several Grammys for her spoken-word albums.
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Lucy is from Amgash, Illinois, more of a pinprick on the map than a town proper, and she grew up poor, sharing a single room with her brother, her sister, and her parents, a seamstress and a repairman of farm machinery; there was no heat, no toilet, and never enough to eat.
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Alas, the accents of its mostly British cast tend to undermine the feeling of authenticity — a problem alleviated by the addition of Mamie Gummer, Meryl Streep's daughter, as an American heiress, and the French actress Jenna Thiam as the working-class daughter of Sabine's chief seamstress who unexpectedly becomes the face of the fashion house.
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My guess is that it didn't take too much work to help these young singers understand Puccini's characters, especially Jessica Sandidge, who brings a melting soprano voice and vulnerability to Mimi, the winsome seamstress stricken with tuberculosis, and Dangelo Diaz, a Peruvian tenor whose smoky colorings and ardency were well suited to Rodolfo, the poet.
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Despite having no formal fashion education (his mother was a seamstress and taught him her trade; he studied architecture and civil engineering), Mr. Abloh founded Off-White — a reference to his belief that old barriers are breaking down — in 2013, almost a decade after he first meet Mr. West and became his creative partner.
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The civil rights movement was already underway when Rosa Parks, a seamstress riding home from her job at a downtown department store in 1955, refused to cede her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger, leading to her arrest, the Montgomery bus boycott and the explosion of the campaign to end segregation.
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A seamstress sews the incorporeal bodies of vanished women into ball gowns; a middle-aged mother, recovering from gastric-bypass surgery, is haunted by the featureless, fleshy mass of her former self; a husband tries to uncover the secret behind a green ribbon that his wife wears around her neck, despite her pleas for him to desist.
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Things get even weirder: A seamstress in Kazan, one of the World Cup host cities, says she was framed by a police officer who pretended to be a customer with a very specific request to make a life-size doll of Zabivaka, the 2018 World Cup's mascot — and then charged her with violating FIFA's copyright rules.
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For even as the narrator learns the vulnerabilities of those around her — the combine driver who, in his drunkenness, blurts the name of a lost love; the village seamstress, and the succor she seeks in a locked room; the grandmother who loses her firstborn; the narrator's father, who loses his own mother far too young — the narrator, in the moment, keeps their secrets.
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Her father, a sociologist who was the first to identify and name high school archetypes like jocks, freaks, preps, and theater geeks, proved the absent-minded professor stereotype—he once put her into the bath with her socks on—and her mother, who ran both a seamstress business and the household, was no nonsense and unsentimental in the way that many who lived through the Great Depression were.
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