Word: couturieres
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The art of creating costumes is obvious; the business, obscure and confused. The haute couture? must risk its millions of francs of profit upon the artistic fecundity of 40 or 50 designers. The wages of 300,000 cutters and sewers, 150,000 embroiderers, glove makers, bag makers, hundreds of thousands...
Haute Couture: 1934. The scores of big and little couturiers to whom buyers Hocked last week may be divided roughly and not without argument into three groups. First are the older houses who are heavy with prestige but exercise comparatively little authority over fashion trends. In this class are Worth...
Vionnet is in appearance a typical French seamstress. Small, nimble, birdlike, she is incredibly skillful with the needle, sews better than anyone in her shop. Although she is reputed to be the daughter of a Monte Carlo cocotte, her contemporaries speak of her with awe and respect, consider her the...
Born in Manhattan 45 years ago, Tailor Twyeffort (Welsh for "two forts") went to Horace Mann School, then to England to prepare himself before taking over his father's famed shop. Creative, artistic, temperamental, he resembles the French couturier more than most of his Fifth Avenue colleagues. He changes...
Captain Roland Molyneux-Loyal to the Empire waistline, the captain-couturier is even more Napoleonic in attempting to revive the poke bonnet, trimmed with fur, ostrich feathers, cock plumes. Lounging pyjamas are voluminous, trailing like a dress in back, trousered in front.