The bridegroom's mother is a retired seamstress.

He added that his mother, a retired seamstress who had made coats, rarely talked about the Holocaust.

Josephine, a retired seamstress, turned the question around: "Why not?"

Tassoula Foumeli, a retired seamstress, said she had been in bed when the blast shattered the windows in her ground-floor bedroom.

Her father is a retired waiter and her mother is a retired seamstress, both in New York.

"I'd rather my throat be cut than move," said Mrs. Runey, a 72-year-old retired seamstress.

Mrs. Simon, a retired seamstress who has lived there 36 years, said she turned down the offer because she was preoccupied with medical problems.

A 51-year-old man was charged yesterday in the killing of a retired seamstress in her Crown Heights apartment on Saturday night, the police said.

Elena Tejada, a retired seamstress who lives in Washington Heights, prefers quiet weekends at home.

Meanwhile, a garden would suit Gladys Stein, a retired seamstress, who has lived in the neighborhood for 37 years.