This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing women's and girls' dresses from purchased fabric. Women's and girls' dress jobbers, who perform entrepreneurial functions involved in apparel manufacture, including buying raw materials, designing and preparing samples, arranging for apparel to be made from their materials, and marketing finished apparel, are included. Cross-References. Establishments primarily engaged in-- ? Knitting women's and girls' dresses or knitting fabric and manufacturing women's and girls' dresses--are classified in U.S. Industry 315191, Outerwear Knitting Mills; and ? Cutting and/or sewing materials owned by others for women's and girls' dresses--are classified in U.S. Industry 315212, Women's, Girls', and Infants' Cut and Sew Apparel Contractors.