Abstract
A lady in the late 19th orearly 20th century had not truly "made it" in society until she owned a Worth gown. Charles Frederick Worth dressed the women ofthe Gilded Age from his Parisian studio and his sons and grandsons carried on the Worth name after his death in 1895. Called the "father of haute couture:' Worth earned this reputation by being the first to design gowns that he marked with his own name.
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