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unusual facts about seamstress



Beatrice Herford

Representative titles are "The Shop Girl" and "The Sociable Seamstress." Her brother, Oliver Herford, was also a famous artist and humorist.

Carolyn Clark

Charlotte Clark, full name Carolyn Geis Clark, American seamstress; created the first line of Mickey Mouse dolls

Cindy Courville

Her father worked for International Harvester while her mother was a seamstress and cook at Courville's childhood school.

Cowboy del Amor

The first is a 48 year old truck driver who lives on a mobile home next to his parent's house, whom he successfully introduces to a 20 year old seamstress from Torreón.

Danny La Rue

When the family home was destroyed during the Blitz, his mother, a seamstress, moved her children to Kennford, a Devon village where young Daniel developed an interest in dramatics.

Del Dingle

Settling into life in Emmerdale, Del – a talented seamstress – helped Val and Eric start their soft furnishings business and became an integral part of the company.

Gertrude Stubbs

Stubbs, the story goes, was born in 1879, in Whitby, England, the daughter of George Stubbs, a train engineer and his wife, Violet, a seamstress.

Gunnfríður Jónsdóttir

At the age of 19 Gunnfríður attended a young women's school, but was forced to move to Akureyri and learn to be a seamstress after the school burned down.

Irene Fischer

Looking for jobs, Irene Fischer first worked as a seamstress’ assistant, then she graded blue books for Wassily Leontief at Harvard and for Norbert Wiener at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

King was born in Brentford, west London, the son of a soldier-then-postman father (Albert) and seamstress mother (Kathleen) and was the second of four children.

Margaret Rogers

Her years of service were memorialized in the book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by her daughter, Lillian Rogers Parks, who worked as a seamstress, also in the White House.

Olga Villi

Born in Suzzara, Mantua as Olga Villani, Villi began to work, only twelve years old, as a saleswoman and seamstress at the Milanese fashion house Biki.

Pé na Jaca

Arthur, who spends the holidays at his uncle's farm planter jackfruit; Elizabeth, the daughter of a seamstress; Guinevere, the daughter of a maid, Mary, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, and Lancelotti, the son of a settler's farm, are, by chance, on the edge of a river in São Paulo, in God Free Me, village near Piracicaba.

Savvas Kyriacou

From the age of 8 Kyriacou helped his seamstress mother in the shop before and after school until the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 .


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