Francine

Research Status: Basic Last Updated: 2025-07-06 Diary Coverage: Up to 1874-03-26

Identity

Dressmaker or fashion house, likely in Paris, where Marie had a green costume made.

Diary References

1874

• March 26: Marie decides to repeat a dress: "Nous avons donc décidé après mille horreurs, de répéter mon costume vert de chez Francine" (We decided after a thousand horrors to repeat my green costume from Francine's).

Context

• Fashion house or dressmaker
• Made green costume Marie likes
• Alternative to Worth for some garments
• Marie unable to find suitable clothes in Nice
• Decides to have duplicate made

Related Entries

• #House_of_Worth - Another fashion source
• Fashion and dressmaking

Research Notes

• Multiple fashion sources typical for wealthy
• Green costume successful enough to duplicate
• Shows Marie's fashion frustrations in Nice