seamstress

Not sure what the point is here because highly skilled seamstress is still a well-paying job, and all the mass-produced clothes are also still sewn by hand.

She was a seamstress, working in the tailor shop in the prison where the escapees worked.

Searching for a seamstress in my town turns up a few results for dry cleaners.

To my mind that's materially different from a seamstress, a job that itself has had large parts of the tasks automated.

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, she lost her job as a seamstress.

Would you expect a seamstress to make a beautiful gown out of fabric you keep under strict lock and key in a box?

Years ago, people were probably really concerned with getting women into etiquette school, or getting them to learn a trade such as seamstress.

Stevens: Seamstress → Temperance leader Before: Earned a living sewing garments in a New England workshop, a trade threatened by mechanized clothing factories.

I'm on the Westside and add some more anecdotes: A friend's wife is a master seamstress.

But I'm pretty sure where ever you live there are seamstress working and making good money.

Where do you live that skilled seamstress is such a valuable job?

This could a be verbatim quote from a seamstress talking about looms.

It has to do with how much “spare” cloth the seamstress takes when stitching the trousers together, if the original piece of cloth was even already cut to size properly.