garmentworker
nounEtymology From garment + worker.
1
A person who works making clothes.
- I had met Rose Topercer in the garment industry. Rose Topercer was a garmentworker the same as I was. […] When I first joined the Communist Party in 1957, I was assigned to the Needle Club, being a needleworker.1965, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, Communist Activities in the Chicago, Illinois Area: Hearings..., page 334: