DRESSMAKERS.
[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
say that you hear ladies lament in every locality that a decently good dressmaker is not to be had. I believe that in almost every village there is a dressmaker who will go out to work for the day, bringing her sewing-machine with her, for half-a-crown and her food. She it is who supplies our maid- servants with their neatly fitting dresses ; but it is not to be expected that the village dressmaker should be up to the last fashion, and a fashion-plate should be supplied to her for her imitation.
In London there are two organisations which will send out dressmakers by the day,—the Society for the Employment of Women, 22 Berners Street, W.; and the Ladies' Work Asso- ciation, 7c Lower Belgrave Street, S.W.—I am, Sir, &c., J. B.
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