Some of these are plausible : midwives, mantuamakers, milliners and schoolmistresses at least ranged through many social levels up to and including the gentry.
Mayhew also documented occupational-specific forms of slang used by scavengers, street-sellers, crossing-sweepers and sweated dress-makers and milliners.
It is possible for every woman to have her own milliner's business although that would mean a lot of bad hats.
There might be a fashionable milliner's shop, small in dimensions but extremely profitable.
There are also two or three milliners who supply ladies with charming hats, but in the same building produce and manufac- ture hats throughout.
As this paragraph is drafted, those dressmakers and milliners, of which a large number are unorganised will be cut out of benefit.
Is it likely that those poor women would go to first-class dressmakers and milliners?
They are dressmakers and milliners.
