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People made or altered their own clothing, and there were tailors and seamstresses in every town square.
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Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
Yet his family resisted their circumstances: his mother, a seamstress, helped other Black members of their community prepare for voter literacy tests, and later gained her son a scholarship at the Tuskegee Institute in 1957.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 20 Mar. 2025
An action group called the Women’s Political Council strategically portrayed her as a kindly seamstress and demure heroine — someone milquetoast enough for white Americans to get behind — and launched the call to boycott the bus system the instant she was arrested.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 6 Mar. 2025
The viral video, posted on January 25 by the amateur seamstress under @bree.anne555, has amassed more than 6 million views and 773,000 likes.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
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Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
Yet his family resisted their circumstances: his mother, a seamstress, helped other Black members of their community prepare for voter literacy tests, and later gained her son a scholarship at the Tuskegee Institute in 1957.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 20 Mar. 2025
An action group called the Women’s Political Council strategically portrayed her as a kindly seamstress and demure heroine — someone milquetoast enough for white Americans to get behind — and launched the call to boycott the bus system the instant she was arrested.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 6 Mar. 2025
The viral video, posted on January 25 by the amateur seamstress under @bree.anne555, has amassed more than 6 million views and 773,000 likes.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Seamstress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seamstress. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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seamstress
noun
seam·stress
ˈsēm(p)-strəs 
: a woman who sews especially for a living
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