Dressmaker

A dressmaker is a person who makes custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns. A dressmaker is also known as a mantua-maker (trivial), modiste, or fabricia.

 Notable dressmakers 
 Laura Ashley
 Cristóbal Balenciaga
 Pierre Balmain
 Coco Chanel
 Christian Dior
 David Emanuel
 Jean Muir, fashion designer
 Bruce Oldfield
 Anna and Laura Tirocchi, Providence, Rhode Island
 Isabel Toledo
 Mary Quant
 Madeleine Vionnet
 Charles Frederick Worth
 Elizabeth Keckley, modiste and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln
 Janet Walker, costumier and dress making bust inventor
 Madame Palmyre, a favorite designer and dressmaker of the empress of France, Eugénie de Montijo

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