“THE DRESSMAKER” celebrates heritage as featured 1951’S singer sewing machine becomes instrumental in bringing new fashion to life

Kate Winslet’s latest runway romp of a movie, “The Dressmaker” takes us back to an era where fashion took a wild turn from the old to the contemporary.  When new designers such as Balenciaga and Dior came to revolutionize and free the body from the trappings of fashion’s yesteryears.

In “The Dressmaker,” Kate Winslet dons the character of Tilly Dunnage, a woman who returns to her town for her ailing mother and right the wrong that separated them twenty years ago.  Their years apart gave way to Tilly’s nascent talent in dressmaking, which she learned from her mother, Molly (Judy Davis) at a very young age.