Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.
Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.
My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck driver. Mum was the traditional housewife. Loving, caring, sharing - always the keynotes of the family.
My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion.
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.
My mum is totally crazy for fashion still. Her job was as a laundress, but I loved it when she would dress up in her red suit with a mini jacket and flared trousers and get her wig fixed at the hairdresser's - it was the time of wigs - and we would go shopping.
My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities.