They are encouraged by Penelope to start their own dressmaking business with Tilly Watkins.
At the age of 26 she launched a dressmaking business on what would become the De Maisonneuve Boulevard.
His mother's small dressmaking business, which she'd run out of the living room, had already gone bankrupt.
Such complete documentation of an historical dressmaking business exists nowhere else in the United States.
After her entire family succumbed to the disease, she returned to Chicago to begin another dressmaking business.
Following his father's death in 1894, his mother supported the family by renting out small cottages and establishing a dressmaking business.
Having built her own successful dressmaking business before their marriage, she used the funds from this enterprise to help Plato.
The girls were married, all except Dessie, and she had a successful dressmaking business in Salinas.
His mother, Mollie, went on to open a luncheonette, and later, a successful dressmaking business.
After graduating from the University of Colorado, he ran a dressmaking business and sold real estate.