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Charles Worth Dresses
What would a dress made by Worth cost in todays money
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If you can find out what he charged in, say 1880, then put it through this calculator: http://
eg £100 in 1880 equates to £10,000 in 2012.
eg £100 in 1880 equates to £10,000 in 2012.
Not much by the standards of todays top players they reckon Karl Largerfeld is worth $125 million
Worth was operating in a time where his fame was only relatively limited - he did not have the capacity to make mass produced versions in the far east, and sell in designer outlets or to produce perfumes at a 95% profit margin.
Today he'd be well up on that
Worth was operating in a time where his fame was only relatively limited - he did not have the capacity to make mass produced versions in the far east, and sell in designer outlets or to produce perfumes at a 95% profit margin.
Today he'd be well up on that
In Worth's day the pay of skilled tailors / seamstresses was very low, and rates of mechanised production also low ie much of the work would involve hand-stitching. Nowadays anything made in this way is much more expensive in comparative terms because if produced in the west, even rock-bottom wages are much higher than they were back then. So it isn't a straightforward question to answer.
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