School: Baile Locha Riabhach (Clochar)
- Location:
- Loughrea, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Proinnsias
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0060, Page 0221
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- There are three tailors in this town Mr. Kelly, Mr Ó Loughlin, and Mr Tierney and four dressmakers. Mrs Clasby, Mrs Kennedy, Mrs. Fahy and Mrs Caughlin's.
The man or woman who wants anything made from them buys the material in the shop and brings it to the tailor or dressmaker to have it made up They select the pattern.
There are different kinds of dress, skirts, coats, swaggers, costumes and other kind.
The swagger is a short loose fastened at the neck and worn over a skirt, and the costume is a small tight fitting coat worn over a skirt of the same material The dress is a garment that is not open down the front fastened at the neck of various patterns.
The sewing implements are a needle, thimble, scissors measuring tape and machine. When a person goes to the dressmakers to get a dress made. The first thing the dressmaker does is to get the measuring tape and get the measurements from the shoulder to any part below the knee, waste and under arms. Then she gets the pattern, puts the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Laurence Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Martin Kelly
- Gender
- Male
