num_pages: 24
description: Long before machines pieced together fabrics, dresses were handmade by the loving and capable hands of dressmakers. Copying the designers and fashions of Europe, while creating new patterns of their own, colonial dressmakers would eventually invent a purely American sensibility and style.
language: English
title: A Day in the Life of a Colonial Dressmaker
titlecomplete: A Day in the Life of a Colonial Dressmaker (Library of Living and Working in Colonial Times)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: PowerKids Press