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The clothing industry also employed tens of thousands of people, from skilled tailors and dressmakers in upscale shops to widowed needlewomen working 16-hour days.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

On the top floor, out of sight, a few dozen tailors, pattern cutters, shoemakers, and needlewomen work on the orders.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016

In those days, needlewomen who worked at home in the island's second biggest industry after sugar were getting just 3� for hemming a dozen handkerchiefs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dress-makers who employ twenty-five or thirty needlewomen usually keep one button-hole maker, paying her from $9 to $12 a week; very few pay the latter price.

From Work for Women by Manson, George J.

The average receipts of Paris needlewomen have not, however, fallen below fourteenpence a day; those of them who work with fashionable dressmakers earn about one and eightpence. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by Duthie, William