Other forms: dressmakers
A dressmaker is somebody who makes clothes for women. A local dressmaker, the dressmaker's dummy, trained as a dressmaker.
The trade divided by sex: a tailor cut for men and a dressmaker for women, and the two learned quite different methods. A dressmaker works by draping and fitting on the body far more than a tailor does, who builds structure into the cloth.
1noundressmakerSomebody who makes clothes for women.
“The dressmaker took her measurements for the wedding dress.”
dressmaker is a maker.
Dress plus maker, from the eighteenth century, when the trade separated from tailoring.
From dress + maker.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA