Ever expanding his market, designer Worth…

… looked to royals of all the countries plus the US.   In one such effort, after a successful sale to the wife of the Austrian ambassador so she could attract the notice of the Empress of France, Worth became Court Designer for Russia, Italy, Spain, & Austria as well as for France.

(Photo:  1863 the Duchess of Morny in a Worth Gown with cage hoop crinoline)