Shop Sophie Trimming Hats, on a women's cut & sew

"In fact, Sophie did not sell hats very much. After a day or so observing in the workshed... Fanny set her to trimming hats. Sophie sat in a small alcove at the back of the shop, sewing roses to bonnets and veiling to velours, lining all of them with silk and arranging wax fruit and ribbons stylishly on the outsides. She was good at it. She quite liked doing it. But she felt isolated and a little dull."

from Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones