Haute Couture celebrating Catherinette's tradition

2010-12-06 6

FASHION - Every year since 1925 the world of Haute Couture pays tribute to its dress makers with the Catherinette tradition. A traditional French label for girls of 25 years old who are still unmarried. This custom progressively died all over France, with the exception of the hatmaking and dressmaking trades, wherein unmarried women, after they turned twenty-five, would attend a ball on St Catherine's Day in a hat made specially for the occasion...