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Fashioning Females and Males in Tailor Trade Clash
A discussion unfolds on dressmaking fees in Fifth Avenue shops and street tailors. Women pay for materials and labor, men often charge by purse size, with examples of gowns from eighty to hundreds. A debate rages over whether male tailors or female dressmakers should sew women’s garments, highlighting class and labor tensions in clothing craft.
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Sade Hye
Fifth Avenue
Geal
Frien
Firth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Trader's Tea Co
Boston
Main Street
Wichite
Kansas
Hils Company
M. Rogers
H. Williams
Leeman
A. Johnson
Newton
Hutchings
Edwant Eunessy
Douglas Ave
Elgin
Justler Porter
S. Topeka
A. T. Barber
Lyons
Y.L Visseol
Wh. J. Martin
GA. Smith
Lawrency Avenue
H. Wyetian
Thos Ryan
Mra
N.S. Wands
River Street
Genuime
le Martin, Rao
Rand
St Francis Hospital
Genuioe
Justice Durrett
J. KR
Carpenter
Wichita Street
A.kng
Douglas Avenue
Hones
Sedgwick
Snorker
United States
Siu
St Louis
Rannae City
Missouri Pacific Railway
St. Louis
Kaunas
Missouri Pacific
North Main Strogta
K. K Bleckley