By 1797 dressmakers had reopened their shops, the fashion press was back in business and the fashion industry in its modern form had been born.
The report gave a detailed tally of other textile and clothing producers - weavers, dressmakers and tailors.
Ascoli was the name of the sartoria, or dressmaker's workshop, that supplied the costumes.
Most commoners were either agricultural labourers or worked in trades, for example as blacksmiths, carpenters and masons, or engaged in cottage textiles, as dressmakers or shoemakers.
Dressmakers who merely make up cloth which is their customers' own property will not lose any coupons and will, therefore, not have any claim.
There is the position of the thousands of small dressmakers throughout the country who make up the requirements of customers from their own materials?
Numbers of dressmakers have been thrown out of employment.
I am aware that a firm of dressmakers was recently fined for under-declaring the value of imported dresses.
