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WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895) , the famous dressmaker, was born at Bourne, Lincolnshire, in 1825. His father, a country solicitor, having lost his money in speculation. Charles was sent to London as an apprentice to Swan
capital or friends, and after twelve years in a wholesale silk
house
design won the patronage of the empress Eugenie, and, through her, of fashionable Paris. After the Franco-German War, during which he turned his house
hospital
taste and ordained the fashions of Paris, and extended his sway over all the civilized and much of the uncivilized world. He died on the loth of March
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