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Show Worth in his "Studio." Dress with Mr. Worth is a fine art, worthy of calling into exercise the highest humane faculties. He knows everybody and seems to be an acute judge of character. He is a great inventor, and even at his dinner table a sheet of paper is often by his side, and on it he draws designs for new costumes calculated to fill the sex with envy. His favorites are the American ladies, and they are his best customers. For them he exerts all his talents. When a lady goes to be posed for a costume, she stands on a pedestal and he casts his eyes over the work that others have produced after his directions, and once the effect of pinning the trimming on here and there, until he strikes something fitted to the lady's own particular style. He then stands off looking at his work, resuming the pinning and unpinning again - like a sculptor engaged in putting the finishing touches to a statue. "This dress should be taken in here and let out there," said a rash American lady once to Mr. Worth, who was graciously pleased to superintend the momentous operation of trying on. "Madame," said he, "I am obliged to you for your advice, and your ideas shall be carried out." And so they were, but she never saw Mr. Worth again. One must not dictate to the dictator. |