Dress Stories

What is Dressmaking?

Dressmaking. The word explains itself. The making of a dress. That is certainly a correct definition, though not exactly legit since it uses the same words to define itself. Let’s take a step back to look at dressmaking in a larger context. Dressmaking is one of the two professions in the realm of fine sewing. The other is tailoring. What is the difference between dressmaking and tailoring?

The Washington Dress

The Dress

Lately everyone seems to have one. It comes up in conversation with both friends and family. The subject can be closet cleaning, a daydream, or a fabulous fabric.  But however we start, the talk turns to a recollection of The Dress. A favorite. Its details from decades ago are recalled with ease. Its purchase may have required careful financial planning. It may have a special sentimental attachment. 

The Washington Suit

They went on the train. Four of them: a father and mother, a boy and a girl. The train was called the Senator. It went from Back Bay Station to Washington, DC. The president lived there, in the White House. There were monuments, a museum with a space ship, and cherry blossoms that would bloom when they got there.