Examples from literature

• Eve has always struck me as being the kind of woman who, if she lived to-day, would run up stupid bills at her dressmakers and be afraid to tell her husband. 
• For months I would be paying so much a week to my dressmaker for the gowns of a play. 
• She really has imagination like a French dressmaker. 
• The dressmaker's not coming, spoke she, sharply. 
• You'll soon be so rich that the dressmakers won't dare to send you a bill.