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title: "Dressmaker"
description: "A dressmaker is a person who makes clothes, especially women’s dresses, to measure."
type: Glossary
url: https://teazle.art/glossary/dressmaker
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
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# Dressmaker

*A dressmaker is a person who makes clothes, especially women’s dresses, to measure.*

Dressmakers, often women, made most fashionable women’s clothing before ready-to-wear, cutting and fitting each garment for the client. The couturier’s claim to design, not just make, grew out of this trade.


## Sources

1. [Dressmaker (AAT 300343831)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300343831). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Dressmaker (Q2034021)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2034021). Wikidata

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