11 OCTOBER 1890, Page 17

DRESSMAKERS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT011."f SIR,—I am still convinced that, far from there being a scarcity of dressmakers, there is a great superfluity of them. There are hundreds of ladies'-maids, all dressmakers, out of place in London who would be too glad to go out on a job for a week. If the lady in Surrey who cannot get a dressmaker would put an advertisement into the Morning Post or Daily Telegraph, she would receive many answers. She must under- take to pay the journey to and fro, and offer not less than 10s. a week, with board, and either lodging or money to pay for one. The deficiency is not in the number of dressmakers, but in the means of putting employers and workers into communi-

cation with each other.—I am, Sir, &c., J. B.