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CHARLES FREDERICK WORTH (1825-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES FREDERICK WORTH (1825-1895)  , the famous dressmaker, was born at Bourne,
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Lincolnshire, in 1825 . His
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father, a country
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solicitor, having lost his
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money in
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speculation . Charles was sent to
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London as an apprentice to Swan & Edgar, drapers . Thence, in 1846, he went to Paris, without capital or friends, and after twelve years in a wholesale
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silk house he began business as a dressmaker in partnership with a Swede named Dobergh . His originality and skill in design won the patronage of the empress
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Eugenie, and, through her, of fashionable Paris . After the Franco-German War, during which he turned his house into a military hospital, his partner retired, and Worth continued the business, which employed 1200 hands, with his two sons John and Gaston—both naturalized Frenchmen . For more than
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thirty years he set the taste and ordained the fashions of Paris, and extended his sway over all the civilized and much of the uncivilized
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world . He died on the loth of March 1895 .

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