Word: seamstresses
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Personnel then consisted of one fabric buyer (Laurence Eiseman), one designer (Florence Eiseman), one business manager (Laurence Eiseman), one seamstress (Florence Eiseman) and one sewing machine (Singer). Now, the Eiseman staff includes a production manager (Son Laurence Jr., 37), and advertising and sales director (Son Robert, 34), 130 employees and 150 sewing machines...
...Mimi, which she has sung at La Scala, Mirella Freni, 29, an Italian lyric soprano of talent and beauty, can hold her own with Tebaldi, De los Angeles and Moffo. Her voice is easy and focused, but her particular strength as the little seamstress is her touching youthfulness. Tenor Ni colai Gedda is equally melodious and moving as her lover. Thomas Schippers conducts the Rome Opera House Orches tra and Chorus impetuously but artfully...
...from scratch.) Kitty prides herself on her fabrics, imported from the oddest countries. What she calls her "new, darling designs" turn out to be merely a modified and more sophisticated A-line. She has a shepherdess's dress complete with plunge which should be interesting. Kitty and her "fantastic seamstress" will make you a cotton dress ($25) in ten days...
...even if it means the best friend's wife or husband. The old double stand ard involved a reservoir of socially inferior women, some of them prostitutes, others "nice" girls but not really quite nice. The prostitutes' ranks are thinning more than ever. As for the little seamstress or shopgirl type, she hardly exists any longer; heaven and union wages protect the working girl...
...that year, a seamstress...