AN ECONOMICAL LEADER OF FASHION.
A water in Lippinoott's relates the following apropos of Worth, the man-dressmaker, which may be supposed to refer to the ecctotric Princess Metternich, whose husband Las" just fought a duel with the Count de Montebello : " The story is told of a celebrated foreign l J rincess and leader of fashion, that being unable to pay her bills, she compounded the matter by giving Worth the entrde of her salons and her opera- box, to the intense indignation of the dignitaries of the court of her native country, and she narrowly escaped social ostracism on her return home. It is also told of this same dashing elegante that being anxious to make much display at comparatively little cost, she made an arrangement with Worth whereby she was 10 take dresses from his establishment, wear each of them once, and then return them to him, to be ■old to those ladies who were anxious 10 imitate the toilets of the celebrated Madame de M . As she was setting the fashion in those days, and her dresses were everywhere noted and copied, she had no difficulty in making the desired arrangement, paying a stipulated sura for the use for a single occasion of each garment."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1188, 5 September 1874, Page 21
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207AN ECONOMICAL LEADER OF FASHION. Otago Witness, Issue 1188, 5 September 1874, Page 21
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