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1. women’s fashion / Did / the nineteenth / the / century / in / leadership of Paris /
accelerate / during?
2. Who / haute couture / is / father of / considered to be / the?
3. Why / travelling to /were / nineteenth century / in the / wealthy foreigners / Paris?
4. When / garment industry / did / important industries / become / most / one of Paris’s?
5. Paris fashion / of / Who / haute couture/ took / in the direction?

Текст:
PARIS AS A FASHION CAPITAL
1. By the eighteenth century, wealthy foreigners were travelling to Paris to
have their clothes made, or they employed seamstresses and tailors to copy the latest Paris fashions (which were described in the newspapers of the day), exclaiming all the while at how quickly the fashions changed and how expensive everything was. Meanwhile, the high-quality tailoring of London began to make its influence felt on the continent, and men of fashion throughout the Western world began to dress in English style.
2. The leadership of Paris in women’s fashions accelerated during the
nineteenth century, with the rise of what became known as the haute couture. The
structure of the industry evolved, because dressmaking was moving from being a
small-scale craft to a big business. Prior to the middle of the nineteenth century there were no fashion designers, as such. Dressmakers, assisted by specialized skilled workers, collaborated with their clients to produce garments in the latest styles. The first true couturier was the Englishman Charles Frederick Worth, a dynamic and enterprising man. He portrayed himself as an arbiter of taste, whose function was to understand what his clients should wear and to dress them accordingly. That was a big difference from the old system under which dressmakers basically executed their customers’ orders.
3. Worth was the first of many designers who took Paris fashion in the
direction of the haute couture, the pinnacle of custom dressmaking. But fashion also evolved simultaneously toward the production of ready-made dresses, and other garments made for sale in the innovative department stores where items were
attractively displayed and clearly marked with fixed prices.
4. By the late nineteenth century, the garment industry, embracing both
couture and ready-made, was one of Paris’s most important industries and a major
contribution to the French national economy.

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