| Show the arbiter of fashion worth was not a frenchman Fionch man but a native of lincolnshire Lincoln shire in E england ri glaDd and the son of a solicitor the father kalher lost loft his hib fortune by bv a speculation peculation and lit fifteen the soll son nent to first in a printing establishment and six months later in the dry goods shop of I 1 swan edgar in london there he staid for five or six sic si c 3 ears and then went to paris he entered the service of a famous silk house while beze libie woith persuaded his employers to M make ike up lip some of their in materials ate rials and sell them in that form they began with cloaks and in la ia worth received a medal at a costume ex ax bibi bi bilion tion for a cloak which he had designed his success emboldened him to ask fora hip this thia was refused so in 1858 1853 be set up tip I 1 an all estable brient in adall vay I 1 1 at 7 rue hue de if la paix where he rc re 1 bained till he be died when ile he began i lie he employed fifty bands when he diec handled bundled ban hands da we were re at work in ill the establishment an and I 1 during doring each year from ac to seen gowns nare PVC ins made and d flow aiom three to four thousand an cloaks cloak chiq output great though it was did not represent whole influence on the listuon of the time tor for twenty years past the leading modister modi stes and A nica have bou glit dresses front from N worth io I 1 etli to use as aa models therefore many of his gowns and cloake were reproduced reproduce il with slight modifications eions many time over lie ie lived at su rennei rel nei near paris I 1 iris in a 1 beautiful countryseat the were furnished and upholstered ered throughout horn fim his own design even the carpets having I 1 in been serially neri ally made for him indeed lie he wag basalo ak the architect afi of tile the honse hom and landscape gardener of the g grounds aund his MIA hobby was the collection of china ari add i it t is is thought that lie had one of the largest larest and most lost i valuable a cable of such colle collections c GODS exer eer made at this co country antry place lie hr entertained his fi lends with an oriental lavish acs he threw oft off entirely the nianna chich he reserved forbis for his establishment in paris pans he was a mot hobt pronounced poseur and im bia affectations were extravagant almost to grotesqueness at times lie he vias las arbitrary bruil bru braue Ue and even brutally rude but there was in all probability a method in this his manner anner rn for through it A he be secured his hia ON on n way in everyL everything hi mg much mcle eaily ea ily than he might have jone aone hid had h hia nays avs been those of gentleness linis hii n manners i anners those of courtesy ile he manntai maintained tied that few women had a sense dense of fitness and I 1 that therefore they needed to be i bullied into approving what be designed deigned for them indeed he has otten qaid that half of his time wag wa in persuading his customers ito to abandon what their own beat henits ts nere er 1 set on and to accept what he be chose licis e for them instead ilai pers ba bitar I 1 |
