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A couture Worth gown as depicted on the cover of Harper’s Bazar magazine, in 1894. According to the Telegraph, Charles Frederick Worth was the “the Lincolnshire lad who became Queen Victoria's favourite couturier.” His fashions at his Paris, “House of Worth,” were favored by the wealthy heiresses, Duchesses and Princesses from around the world in the gilded age. Worth had died 3 years before this fad of dresses with jewel-encrusted, live tortoises chained to them was reported. One has to wonder what he would have made of the trend! |
Living tortoises with their backs covered with jewels, attached by a gold chain to ladies dresses, are the rage in Paris. They cost about 16 pounds ($80). The society for the protection of animals is agitating the matter. —From the Morning Press, January 1898
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