Ladies.
THE GREAT MAN MILLINER. About 200 gowns and 150 cloaks are turned out weekly by M. Worth, the great Paris man-milliner, it is said, during the busy seasons. These seasons are from the middle of February to July, and from the middle of August to December. The quickest hit of work ever done in Worth’s house was a gown for the Empress Eugenie ; at was made in three hours and alialf. The Empress of Russia paid £IOOO to him for her coronation train —an adjunct which it took six weeks of constant work to make, it was so heavily embroidered with silver. For one gown a South American woman gave the great dressmaker £4,800. The material of this dress was comparatively inexpensive ; it was the magnificent old lace with which it w’as irimmed that raised the price to such an altitude. It is interesting to know that in making his designs Worth does not resort to pencil and drawingpaper. He simply takes his materials and drapes them on the model until he finds the model he wants.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 37, 9 December 1893, Page 3
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