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Long before machines pieced together fabrics, dresses were handmade by the loving and capable hands of dressmakers. Copying the designers and fashions of Europe, while creating new patterns of their own, colonial dressmakers would eventually invent a purely American sensibility and style.Merrill, Amy French is the author of 'Day in the Life of a Colonial Dressmaker', published 2002 under ISBN 9780823958184 and ISBN 0823958183.
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