Worth, CHARLES FREDERICK

Worth, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-95), costumer, born at Bourn in Lincolnshire, went to Paris in 1846, and started an establishment for the making of fashionable costumes. He achieved great success as a designer of fashions, and his establishment in the Rue de la Paix came to be regarded as the first emporium for the latest Paris fashions, employing not much short of a thousand workwomen, four-sevenths of them inside, and the rest outside. M. Worth was himself the designer of the styles which emanated from his establishment.