Exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, returns from Europe to the small Victorian town of Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twnety years is met with suspicion and malice from the eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills.
Adaptations (1)
The Dressmaker was adapted into a 2015 film.
The Dressmaker2015 · film · 119 min · dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse · IMDb ↗In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
