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

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