Show PARIS dressmakers there are of them to form good sized town paris is the city where the aag trade flourishes as it does in no other spot in the world in 1850 the number of couturie res as given in the Annu aire du commerce the commercial directory of those days was only there were besides 67 shops for the sale of ready made feminine apparel but there were none as there are today to day which sold lingerie or certain articles exclusively in the bottin as the paris directory is familiarly known of 1895 there are 1636 couturie res commercial houses for the sale of ready made garments besides many establishments which manufacture and sell dupons de desous or alone the number of working dressmakers in paris is estimated at in all france according to M the industry fracturing fac turing the various articles of wom ans dreas is in the hands of male and female owners of shops or factories these furnish employment to persons of whom over are women in addition to these there are persons who make their living from industries dus tries which are tributary to that of the manufacture of feminine apparel the total value of the product of this labor from so many hands is estimated at |