We end the week of dressmaking where we began, with the incomparable Dorothy Whipple. Despite the arrival of off-the-peg and, later, mass-produced garments, many women continued - and continue - to make their their own clothes. High Wages chronicles this move from traditional drapers to the new dress shops. However, Mrs Briggs, whose social-climbing husband has become financially successful, preserves her old ways and continues to sew for herself in her big, smart house, defying Mr Briggs who thinks her home-made outfits reflect badly on them both. He wants her to wear made-to-measure, but she enjoys the creativity, the process, and her cosy room with plush furniture, rocking chair, aspidistra, and sewing machine. She may very well resemble Hockney's mother in his 1954 lithograph Woman with a Sewing Machine.