DRESSMAKERS IN DISTRESS.
The war has killed the home dressmaking industry, which used to give employment to many local dressmakers, says a report issued by the Central (Unemployed) Body for London. The public has taken to buying readymade clothes, and the visiting dressmakers, who used to make up, dresses either in their own homes ' or at the homes of their customers, are almost without employment. Many of these " little " dressmakers are over forty years of age, and the war has broken connections extending over twenty years. These women, unfortunately, are not suited for the ordinary workroom, and the central body laments that it is difficult to see how they are to be kept) from destitution.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 11
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115DRESSMAKERS IN DISTRESS. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 11
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