They were doctors, business people, seamstresses, cooks, security guards, engineers.
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"Do not underestimate your role here," Bungert told the seamstresses.
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So I think that was part of his reading about seamstresses.
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Nor is that intended to imply Triangle seamstresses lacked such qualities.
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She found evidence of how valuable seamstresses were in the slave trade.
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In California, hospitals have turned to Los Angeles seamstresses to make masks.
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Just like how ladies used to sew — they weren't seamstresses, but they embroidered.
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Is it a company that is proud of how slow its seamstresses are?
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Seamstresses like Eleanor Foraker sewed the astronauts' metal and plastic spacesuits by hand.
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Both her grandmothers were seamstresses who taught her how to sew and knit.
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Six hundred ICE agents arrested 361 people, mainly young Mayan seamstresses from Guatemala.
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Christian Siriano, the fashion designer, has reassigned his 210 seamstresses in New York.
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Back on the factory floor, the seamstresses beamed as Mr. Williams sauntered by.
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All but one of the business's six seamstresses were Vietnamese, Ms. Nhung said.
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Most people in the barangay are the working poor: cleaners, construction workers, seamstresses, mechanics.
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Employment programs for female ex-FARC members, however, focus on training seamstresses or hairdressers.
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They are both award-winning seamstresses who have created Carnival costumes for over 15 years.
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For the fall 2018 couture collection, he asked the seamstresses to christen the dresses themselves.
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After fittings, I remember she would hug all of our seamstresses goodbye, like old friends.
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She scoured thrift stores and eBay for Barbie dolls and enlisted help from volunteer seamstresses.
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In one room, three seamstresses sat surrounded by sketches and fabric swatches, stitching his extravagant outfits.
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Fashion designer Christian Siriano and his 10 seamstresses hope to produce several thousand masks each week.
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In Los Angeles, some doctors are turning to seamstresses in the city's garment district for new masks.
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But seamstresses sewing at home using materials provided by a clothing manufacturer would probably be considered employees.
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The room around her buzzed quietly with activity, as Dior's seamstresses stitched Chiuri's folds and foliate decorations.
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She personally housed 600 Belgian orphans, organized workshops for unemployed seamstresses and opened a home for tubercular children.
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Who will save Rostov from the intrusions of the state if not the seamstresses, chefs, bartenders and doormen?
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Was told to answer yes when they asked us if we were master seamstresses, blacksmiths or lady's maids.
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They are the seamstresses, the washerwomen, the hands on the factory line and the feet on the store floor.
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Alma wears a white coat, like one of the seamstresses, blending—while desperately trying not to—into the background.
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Most of the "poverty-stricken seamstresses" are afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs, it said.
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Gavin Newsom says a critical shortage of masks has some hospitals resorting to seamstresses in Los Angeles' garment district.
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Upstairs, in an atelier tucked under a skylit attic, dozens of seamstresses were working, each on a different garment.
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Upstairs, in an atelier tucked under a skylit attic, dozens of seamstresses were working, each on a different garment.
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Chrissy Metz was designing her own clothes long before she started collaborating with stylists and seamstresses on red carpet looks.
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AT THE Gladpeer Garments Factory outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, seamstresses, dyers and embroiderers huddle over rows of work stations.
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"Right now it is in the hands of the seamstresses and the pattern cutters and the designers," Grand said, shrugging.
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All of which fuels demand for trafficked women, with the seamstresses lured from as far afield as Brazil and Nigeria.
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Today, she employs local women as seamstresses, teaches sewing, and helps out as a first aid volunteer in the community.
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Hospitals in Los Angeles and Seattle, desperate for equipment, have asked seamstresses to volunteer making fabric masks for healthcare workers.
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And one fast fashion retail startup is teaching its tailors and seamstresses how to make cloth masks for consumer protection.
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"Seamstresses are the key element in the fashion chain, we are the ones who put the clothes together," she said.
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However, the bigger issue is there are not enough trained seamstresses or craftsmen in the U.S. to fill demand, Hertzman said.
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His "Seamstresses Listen to Hitler's Speech" (1960), a painting based on a 1942 photograph, was, for me, a particularly powerful image.
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In Jeddah, a more liberal port city, seamstresses design abayas with bright colours and women smoke water-pipes out of doors.
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In California, hospitals have turned to seamstresses, while in New York doctors have resorted to reusing masks to meet the shortage.
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Poorly paid seamstresses and domestic servants laid down their needles and aprons and went to work building tanks and filling shells.
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A wool sweater made in Peru, for example, costs $211, more than what most of Carcel's Peruvian seamstresses make in a month.
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Some of the seamstresses wear knock-offs of their own traditional dresses while they fashion the real thing for sale to others.
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The "Little Women" star wore a dazzling Louis Vuitton dress that took more than 250 hours and six different seamstresses to create.
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To make sure the final costumes hold up during the show-stopping choreography, for example, seamstresses added darts under the bodysuits' arms.
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After the finale, Piccioli walked the runway hand-in-hand with the team of women and seamstresses who crafted the intricate pieces.
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Time travel, it would seem, is our contemporary longing for the kind of circumstances that some of Banner's beloved seamstresses reckoned with.
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"I would go there and create variations of the pajamas with my mother and the seamstresses, who were highly skilled," Heinrichs says.
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Even with the help of Rightfully Sewn, a charity that trains and places refugee seamstresses, Ms. Choules can't find enough skilled workers.
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Cartwright wore a convertible wedding dress designed by Netta BenShabu and altered by the seamstresses at Kinsley James Couture Bridal in West Hollywood.
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In the vast workroom, under a ceiling of swooping inverse domed skylights, 250 seamstresses, machinists, pattern cutters and managers produced each collection's clothes.
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Seamstresses heat up the iron and place a board between the dress and the model's skin so the hot air doesn't burn her.
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"They never get to see the show, and they should be honored," went Mr. Lagerfeld's explanation of the seamstresses on the show's edges.
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Next Thing She is starting a co-op sewing project in Chicago to help immigrant seamstresses team up with small-scale fashion houses.
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"We clearly have to meet this moment," the governor remarked, "where we are not asking seamstresses in the garment district to make masks."
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"Some companies, like the one I worked for, no longer have employees inside the factory and the seamstresses work from home," she said.
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The brand tweeted that the recent spike in sales has allowed them to hire 15 to 30 new seamstresses in its Cambodian production house.
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Although her collections are small, with fewer than eighteen outfits, she no longer makes them all by herself, and employs a team of seamstresses.
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She brought with her a substantial staff of 30 seamstresses (the house of Dior, in its original entirety, only had a staff of 60).
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Picture-making establishments in New York, Boston and San Francisco displayed countless photographs of seamstresses, servants, soldiers, laborers, lawyers and even the recently dead.
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She found couture seamstresses to teach her techniques that she manipulated to create waves of lush black and blue fabric between the two figures.
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They are also spread across the work spectrum, from seamstresses to demolition workers, sometimes developing specialized skills only after years of work in the field.
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One of the few differences between the real Bayeux Tapestry and ours is that our Victorian seamstresses covered this gentleman's.. *ahem* ..modesty with some pants.
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"They have these seamstresses, tailors, and designers literally on call to make whatever I was wearing so that Kate can wear it," Clinton tells PEOPLE.
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He has no problem recruiting talent locally, from seamstresses to robot-operators, and the yard's operator has been very helpful as his firm has expanded.
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My home for the night — a modest but comfortable walk-in tent that provided an unbroken view of sprawling wilderness — was sewn by local seamstresses.
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After everyone introduces themselves, they divide into groups and follow instructions from the seamstresses, who distribute a newspaper pattern template to each of the attendees.
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We, like they, started out as butchers and seamstresses and tailors, self-employed capitalists because it can be hard for immigrants to get corporate jobs.
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The manufacturer argued that the work could have been done by anyone and as it had no supervisory control over the seamstresses, they were not employees.
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Her strategy was to sell off-the-rack dresses to her clientele and have seamstresses on hand to alter the clothes to fit at no charge.
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In New York, the designer Christian Siriano has told his 10 seamstresses to begin making masks with the goal of producing a few thousand a week.
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His paintings are peopled by waif-like barefoot seamstresses and peasant-woman workers; out of the windows of his immaculate workshops, brightly-coloured cows benevolently wander by.
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It's Cyril who corrals the seamstresses, keeps the trains running on time, and dismisses Woodcock's muses and mistresses when they're no longer of any use to him.
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The massive increase enabled founder James Bartle to hire 46 seamstresses in his Cambodian factory – many of whom are either victims of sex trafficking or forced labor.
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Right now, all sewing is done by the label's founder and three local seamstresses who set their own hours and are paid well above the minimum wage.
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He has 10 seamstresses who are working from home and are available to make the masks, which are intended both for hospital support staff and private individuals.
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If the cost of making trousers becomes less appealing in China, a room full of sewing machines in Cambodia can quickly be filled with low-wage seamstresses.
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Tian Ye, an Esquel executive, quips that the increasingly tech-savvy seamstresses are no longer strictly blue-collar workers but nor are they yet white-collar ones either.
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A total of 15 people, from teenagers to people in their mid-40s, work up to eight hours per day as waiters, bartenders, seamstresses, painters, sellers and musicians.
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Yet while up to 60 percent of garment workers are women in largely junior positions such as seamstresses, the majority of senior management positions are taken by men.
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Instead, he has spent months designing more outfits, sometimes drawing patterns right on the actors' bodies, and showing seamstresses exactly where to put mirror tiles for maximum effect.
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For instance, CSI found that due to a lack of market research, humanitarian projects were training girls to become seamstresses in an area that was saturated with the skill.
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And the seamstresses of Valentino — dozens of whom, in their white coats, crowded the stage — won the Art of Craftsmanship prize, presented by the singer and activist Annie Lennox.
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" With a nod toward the rear of the gallery, where seamstresses were still tugging at the fabrics, executing Ms. Hanley's 11th-hour instructions, he added: "Raffaella is hands-on.
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Christopher and Tammy work alone — they have a burgeoning team of seamstresses and pattern-cutters, of course, as well as a backstage crew to determine hair and makeup looks.
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MILAN/LONDON (Reuters) - With minutes until show time, a group of seamstresses are adding the final touches to designer Ermanno Scervino's latest creations to be unveiled on the catwalk.
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Most of them are seamstresses in textile factories, such as those in Ad-Dulayl Industrial Park, near Amman, who make clothes for American brands, including Under Armour and LL Bean.
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In Queens, which has a large South Asian population, a library in Jamaica offers sewing classes in Bengali for Bangladeshi women, some of whom now earn a living as seamstresses.
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Being backstage at these shows, seeing every single person from the photographers to the glam teams to seamstresses, all these unsung heroes that are making it happen behind the scenes.
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"They have the best seamstresses and tailors in the world," the young American actor McCaul Lombardi, kitted out that morning in a custom Zegna suit, said from the front row.
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By the numbers, you're looking at 24 hours to design and conceptualize, 86 hours of knitting and embroidering, six people (including five dedicated seamstresses), and a pound or so of wool.
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This anachronistic legislation is supposed to preserve America's industrial capacity to make the things its army needs, but "the average age of seamstresses in America is 56," Mr Rajan points out.
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Shortly after its launch, British tabloid The Sun accused the brand of using "poverty-stricken seamstresses" of the MAS Holdings factory in Sri Lanka to produce the brand in subpar conditions.
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But with the help of the team of seamstresses at Kinsley James Couture, the gown was transformed into a 3-in-1 convertible wedding dress for her ceremony, reception and afterparty.
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Accepting dates with men primarily as a way to get out of the boarding house for the evening was very common among the textile workers and seamstresses of New York City.
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The trainees came from several countries in Asia and worked in different industries, in different parts of Japan: a Cambodian construction worker, a Chinese lettuce picker, seamstresses from China and Vietnam.
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Initially, the pair were recruited as technical advisors, but were subsequently asked to play seamstresses working for Day-Lewis' character, small roles, but ones in which they appear regularly throughout the film.
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The newspaper claimed on average seamstresses earn £4.30 a day ($6.23), although acknowledging that workers at the factory were still being paid above the legal minimum wage of 13,1163 rupees a month.
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There he would regale guests — who could include designers, Kardashians, the artist Julian Schnabel, the architect Peter Marino and seamstresses from his ateliers — long into the night with opinions, stories and exhortations.
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The trousers looked as though they were hand-crafted by an angelic seamstresses in the clouds and came with the equally stunning teal velvet suit jacket Evans wore to the Oscars earlier this year.
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During the royal tour in Australia, the Duchess of Sussex selected a pair of jeans by Outland Denim, which prides itself on providing a living wage to its seamstresses in small villages in Cambodia.
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Lean and lithe, bronzed from a recent vacation at her family home in the South of France, Ms. Ramsay-Levi, 37, was surrounded by a lively troupe of 10 seamstresses, assistants and atelier directors.
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She is becoming partners with another female-founded start-up, Retazo, to provide employment for skilled seamstresses who lost their jobs when large garment factories in Puerto Rico closed in the 218s and 285s.
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Every year around this time, the rhythm of steel drums rises in Central Brooklyn, signaling the approach of Caribbean Carnival, as seamstresses put the final touches on elaborate costumes adorned with feathers and rhinestones.
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As You Are Intimates is still being spread across Twitter, and the subsequent increase in orders has prompted Marshai to search for additional seamstresses and enlist the help of the Creative Girl Gang marketing agency.
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Luxury outdoor brand Canada Goose launched a social enterprise earlier this year, Project Atigi, hiring Inuit seamstresses to design parka coats, while the United Nations is promoting its Made51 brand of crafts by refugee artisans.
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In New York City, which accounts for more than 25,000 of the country's confirmed cases, doctors and nurses are reusing the few face masks they have left, while hospitals in California have turned to seamstresses.
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Two hundred seamstresses work at the atelier in Hyde Park; there are two showrooms in London and Paris, as well as 10 international boutique openings planned during 2017 in locations like Miami, Macau and Dubai.
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All these sets have been made, and there's incredible craftsmen involved, all of the seamstresses making all these costumes, and the love and attention that's going into every detail – I really wanted her to see that.
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It was another link in the city's seismic history: Just a few blocks from here, on the corner of Manuel Othón and the Calzada de Tlalpan Streets, 1,600 seamstresses died at work in the 1985 earthquake.
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Made from organic cotton in a Cambodian factory by seamstresses rescued from the sex trafficking industry, the brand has employed 46 more workers as a result of increased sales since Meghan wore the label last year.
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The line manager at her Chinese-owned factory, she said, had warned the seamstresses several times that if they did not come back to work with ink on their fingers, they need not return at all.
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Rajan told me his machines, which a spokesperson said cost about as much as conventional garment machinery, can't do the nimble work of seamstresses when it comes to fancy outfits that have frills and layers of lace.
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For the spring 2018 couture collection, Piccioli honored his team of seamstresses, including the four artisans who oversee them, known as premieres (no one here uses the depersonalizing term petites mains) by naming the dresses after them.
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Rutgers is a fine school, but David Hughes, an anthropology professor and the president of the faculty union, noted that 30 percent of the curriculum is taught by contract teachers, many of them paid like piecework seamstresses.
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Savile Row may be the epicenter of bespoke tailoring, but seamstresses and tailors make a living around the globe; just pop into your nearest dry cleaners, and it's more than likely they'll have an alterations service inside too.
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And as in the couture house ateliers, seamstresses cut and sew stiff linen mock-ups, called toiles, to perfect the design before cutting it in the final fabric, and produce embellishments, like handmade silk blossoms and gold braiding.
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After Cartwright fell in love with it, a team of seamstresses at Kinsley James helped the bride turn the dress into a three-in-one convertible outfit with three unique looks for the ceremony, reception, and after-party.
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In a widely discussed report by The Sun, it's been alleged that Ivy Park is made in Sri Lankan sweatshops, where seamstresses working 9.75 hour shifts five days a week make the equivalent of only $6.18 a day.
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Like Philip Levine, who wrote about working-class life in Detroit, Trethewey observes the lives of people who toil with their hands: seamstresses, maids, beauticians, and the dock and factory workers in and around her hometown of Gulfport.
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Since de la Montagne launched the brand this fall, others have been getting in touch, mostly via Instagram; she mentions cases for scissors as one project she has in mind, after hearing requests from both seamstresses and hairdressers.
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His seamstresses made the clothes on-site at Paisley Park in a dedicated upstairs room; one, the costume designer Debbie McGuan, who began working for him in the mid-90s, has come on board to help identify outfits.
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Filmed during the moments leading up to her Ritz spectacle, Kritharioti takes viewers inside her world that includes an array of seamstresses sewing just about everything by hand, a few models (including Lais Ribeiro), and some pretty heavy machinery.
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Markle has worn a pair of Outland Denim jeans twice during her recent visit to Australia, and the company just tweeted that the recent spike in sales has allowed them to hire more seamstresses in their Cambodian production house.
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Their roles have grown over the centuries from nurses, cooks and seamstresses, who maintained the camps of the Continental Army, to fighter pilots, soldiers, sailors and Marines who are battling the Islamic State in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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A glassed-in area at the back of the shop is reserved for the atelier, where seamstresses use vintage fabrics and colorful modern prints to sew the custom-made and one-of-a-kind clothes sold in the shop.
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And for those wondering how her troupe of dancers can move so easily in those complicated couture pieces, the seamstresses showed the cameras how they cut darts into the costume's armpits so that all of Beyoncé's girls could move unencumbered.
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Product-wise, the brand's wool and cotton pieces are handmade and scrutinized for quality during the "raccoutrage" stage by a specially trained committee of seamstresses, who meticulously inspect every garment to remove post-knitting impurities and repair slipped stitches or holes.
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Thanks to the Duchess' choice in denim, we're pleased to announce that it will be possible to employ a further 15 to 30 seamstresses in our Cambodian production house in the coming weeks, and the recruitment process has already begun.
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While we are business leaders in a rapidly changing service economy, we are also low-income new immigrants: waiters, seamstresses and home health care workers who suffer under the double whammy of political invisibility and economic insecurity as wages stagnate.
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When they arrived for a visit on a recent gray spring morning, the seamstresses and machinists, dressed in white lab coats, looked up from their work in the glass-walled room to greet them with big smiles and a flurry of bonjours.
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The accusations were made by British tabloid The Sun, which claims that one of the factories used by the brand uses "poverty-stricken seamstresses" who are "exploited and treated like slaves" to manufacture the line's logo tanks, sports bras, leggings, and more.
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There are no veterans left from World War I. There are no stevedores who loaded the ships at Port Newark, or Detroit workers who made the trucks, seamstresses who sewed the uniforms, or mothers who received word their son wasn't coming home.
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Most employees, whether the seamstresses stitching at the leather seats or the paint specialists who spend about 50 hours per vehicle on the perfect finish, draw on decades of experience (although there also is a crop of youthful looking employees on the payroll).
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But, as we saw in the documentary Dior and I (and if you haven't seen, you must do so immediately), it's the seamstresses in the atelier who bring the magic of couture to life, though they mostly stay behind the scenes throughout the whole process.
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In between shots of her running around backstage of the carnival, whipping up her team of seamstresses or corralling local kids into a makeshift choir, she dictates an important message to the audience behind the camera: "We've got to teach the little ones our culture."
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After wearing the ethical denim brand Outland Denim on tour in Australia last fall, sales increased by 640% and enabled the founder James Bartle to hire 46 seamstresses in his Cambodian factory, many of whom are either victims of sex trafficking or forced labor.
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"Thanks to the Duchess' choice in denim, we're pleased to announce that it will be possible to employ a further 15 to 30 seamstresses in our Cambodian production house in the coming weeks, and the recruitment process has already begun," the brand announced on Twitter.
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"Thanks to the Duchess' choice in denim, we're pleased to announce that it will be possible to employ a further 15 to 30 seamstresses in our Cambodian production house in the coming weeks, and the recruitment process has already begun," Outland reps wrote on Twitter.
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Mr. Jeffrey, who graduated in 0003 from Central St. Martins, created Charles Jeffrey Loverboy — both a fashion label, which he considers a collective of fellow art school creatives, be they seamstresses, dancers or choreographers, and the name of a cult club night in East London.
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It sounds like a stereotype, but this city of about 7.4 million has hundreds of such businesses, supported by legions of tailors and seamstresses toiling away in drab industrial workrooms tucked into out-of-the-way neighborhoods or across the border in mainland China.
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In an effort to make the show as true to the industry possible, all 12 designers will have to collaborate with another designer, be able to delegate to seamstresses, and essentially elevator-pitch themselves to the judges with no warning, at any point in time.
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The event had scale to spare, according to PEOPLE's 2005 report: 45 chefs, 28 seamstresses, 100 limousine drivers and about 10,000 all-white roses, hydrangeas, gardenias and peonies — not to mention the dinner plates, ringed in gold, or the candelabras at the center of each table.
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And I was still a paid-up dues-current member of the Ancient and Honorable Guild of Seamstresses and would be until the day I died, even if I was a lady rancher and horsebreaker now by profession and didn't pay no sewing machine tax no more.
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And finally, in a sweet tribute to the ladies who really make this all happen, Karl brought out his couture seamstresses to take a bow with him arm-in-arm, with many of them still wearing their (rather chic) Chanel-branded sewing kits around their necks.
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As for her dress that day, Grace wore one of the most famous wedding gowns of all time: Fit for a princess, it was a creation of 300 yards of antique Belgian lace and 150 yards of silk, taffeta and tulle created by 30 studio seamstresses.
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When my father was a boy, one of the seamstresses took him under her wing — after he tore his pants and broke his eyeglasses playing ball she mended them so he wouldn't get in trouble with his father, who counted his pennies and had a temper.
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In one large workroom, nearly two dozen seamstresses busily hand-pleated bubblegum-pink chiffon bodices, affixed sparkling crystals onto white tulle tutu appliqués, attached lace cap sleeves to embellished corset tops, and veiled silver lamé panels with ivory tulle "to tone down the sheen," Mr. Ronze said.
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A threesome of Japanese buyers sorted through racks of Ms. Bode's trademark patchwork jackets as a clutch of seamstresses furiously stitched samples behind tables piled high with the vintage textiles the designer favors and a production team huddled over laptops and empty cartons of Chinese takeout.
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Assuming that she's been at sea for the past few weeks (or even months), that does offer up her team of seamstresses time to create a one-of-a-kind badass wardrobe, but that doesn't explain where or how she's getting the resources to build such an amazing collection.
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The accusations were made by British tabloid The Sun yesterday, which claims that one of the factories used by the brand, MAS Holdings factory in Sri Lanka, uses "poverty-stricken seamstresses" who are "exploited and treated like slaves" to manufacture the line's logo tanks, sports bras, leggings, and more.
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"We are also seeing hospitals — and I just want to be candid with people — that are going down, for example, to the LA garment district and requesting seamstresses to start making masks," Newsom said, adding that he was hopeful FEMA would soon be able to supply them instead.
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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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Chanel loves to create a totally immersive set that draws its guests into the designer's world for just a moment, and the haute couture show was the most literal interpretation of that yet, turning the Grand Palais in Paris into a Chanel atelier complete with dress forms, samples, and seamstresses.
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Creative head Karl Lagerfeld, known for putting on elaborate shows for one of the world's most famous labels, transformed Paris' Grand Palais into a Chanel workshop with rolls of fabric, mannequins, sewing machines, cutting tables and seamstresses at work in front of an audience including Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jessica Chastain.
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It then centers around two spectacular Dior events — the Cruise show that took place at Blenheim Palace last June, and the couture show in Paris — where we're privy to the building tension as Dior seamstresses race to finish every garment, and meet the international clients who spend thousands each year on Dior couture.
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The blouse is sent to washing machines, the gown goes to one of the 75 seamstresses lined up next to a wall of thread, zippers, buttons and other adornments in every imaginable colour and the silk dress makes its way to the "spotters": experts who know how to get tough stains out of delicate fabrics.
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When many people think of couture they think of the most traditional, time-intensive kind of fashion; of seamstresses and tailors in white coats bent over intricate swathes of material painstakingly sewing by hand the way they have since the days of Charles Frederick Worth and Christian Dior (and Marie Antoinette, for that matter).
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Mr. Hecht expanded the collection — significantly — yet he still relies on the sewing-machine business, which has enough clients, he said, ranging from the Metropolitan Opera to seamstresses in Queens, that he does not need to sell his treasures to pay the rent, though he does lease and sell items to prop stylists for television and film.
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On a tour of the South Pacific last fall, Meghan's appearance in a pair of Outland Denim skinny jeans was enough to kick up sales at the Australian brand by 640 percent, which in turn allowed it to employ another 46 seamstresses at its factory in Cambodia, many of them victims of sex trafficking or forced labor.
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"We do know about seamstresses working without contracts from home in Puglia, especially those that specialize in sewing appliqué, but none of them want to approach us to talk about their conditions, and the subcontracting keeps them largely invisible," said Pietro Fiorella, a representative of the CGIL, or Italian General Confederation of Labour, the country's largest national union.
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Rep. Ben McAdams is the second member of Congress to test positive for the novel coronavirusCalifornia's governor said hospitals are so strapped for face masks they are turning to Los Angeles seamstresses — an industry notorious for poor labor conditionsPhotos show what San Francisco looked like the day before residents were ordered to 'shelter in place' for 3 weeks to contain the coronavirus
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CreditCreditEdd Horder Seventy-two hours before her show at London Fashion Week, Emilia Wickstead's studio, on the fourth floor of a converted warehouse overlooking Ladbroke Grove, is a flurry of activity — seamstresses are sewing together puffed sleeves; tables of gingham gloves and shoes await models for fittings; a digital pattern-cutting machine is shuddering away — and yet Wickstead herself is unusually serene.
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Read more Style visionary: Iris van Herpen When many people think of couture they think of the most traditional, time-intensive kind of fashion; of seamstresses and tailors in white coats bent over intricate swathes of material painstakingly sewing by hand the way they have since the days of Charles Frederick Worth and Christian Dior (and Marie Antoinette, for that matter).
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The towering platform stilettos tested the constitution of models who walked for Guo Pei on Sunday night, though nothing like the challenge that faced the pop star Rihanna when she wore Ms. Pei's most famous creation: the 55-pound, canary-yellow fur-trimmed gown and cape that took seamstresses 50,000 hours to make for the 2015 Met Gala in New York.
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Read more:FULL INTERVIEW: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says the worst is yet to come, and warns other mayors to shut their cities down now before it's too lateImmigration judges, ICE attorneys, and experts are calling on the Trump administration to close the courts to stop the novel coronavirus from spreadingCalifornia's governor said hospitals are so strapped for face masks they are turning to Los Angeles seamstresses — an industry notorious for poor labor conditions
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Nozlee Samadzadeh, 3003, senior full stack engineerCost per month: $50 for 3 yards of fabricCost per year: $500-$1000 depending on fabric usedTime per month: 20-40 hoursGarments made per year: ~12Cost for a beginner who's looking to get into it: $200-$300, depending on whether you need a sewing machine Origin story: My grandmother and aunt worked as seamstresses their whole careers, so I've been sewing ever since I can remember.
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It is easy to imagine how this played with the global labels that spent months and countless dollars courting the talent, sending couriers and seamstresses whizzing across the planet to ensure that on this one night it would be Margot Robbie in Chanel haute couture, or Allison Janney in a startlingly chic red Reem Acra dress with a plunging neckline and angel sleeves, or Zendaya in a single-shoulder creation by Giambattista Valli reminiscent of old Hollywood.
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But for a recent work trip from his home base of Milan to the small town of Corridonia in the country's Marche region, Zanini did something out of the ordinary: He brought along a Polaroid camera, and captured what he saw over three days of meetings, fittings and factory visits exclusively with T. (He even took a break for some chocolate.) "To extensively travel between workshops and factories is my way of doing my job: As a designer I always seek direct contact and one-to-one exchange of ideas with artisans, pattern-makers and seamstresses," he says.
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Not the least of the movie's joys is the roster of unflappable seamstresses, with years of experience, on whom he relies; in the course of one especially taxing night, they have to repair a wedding dress that has been tainted and torn, to be ready by 9 A.M. As for Day-Lewis, he strikes the eye as ineffably dapper, with a hint of the sacerdotal; in the opening minutes, he pulls on a magenta sock, buffs the toe cap of a shoe, and, wielding a pair of hairbrushes, sweeps back his lightly silvered locks with solemn care, as if robing himself in a vestry.
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