The Happy Life of a Duchess

In the late afternoon, Mrs. Daumier came with her brand new design draft.

Adele received her in another spacious fitting room.

Naturally, Bailu Manor would not be short of a room.

After making some plans, Adele asked someone to arrange another room, which was similar to the decoration of the dressing room, but it was more spacious, and to some extent it felt a little like a modern dressing room.

The layout is relatively open and bright. There are several mirrors, full body or half body, and dressing table. There are also special dummy props for clothing making, and tools such as needlework rulers are not missing.

The tables, chairs and sofas are all set up. It is spacious enough to accommodate dozens of sets of clothes at the same time, and there is no problem with dozens of people in it. However, Adele is still a little dissatisfied with the layout of this room, but she does not want If you want to start work again, let's just use it like this.

"Have you seen those fabrics?" When Mrs. Daumier mentioned this, her face was also very happy, "The cotton fabrics made by machines are more tightly arranged, and can meet the needs of multi-strand yarn winding. I think it's really... so convenient, I don't know how much better it is than doing it by hand, the efficiency is also high, and the output is also large."

The first batch of fabrics, whether it is white cotton or dyed fabrics, is not much in quantity.

This is the first batch of sample fabrics ordered by the management after consulting with Mrs. Daumier, a designer and alternative consultant.

By the way, the person currently in charge of the handmade cloth workshop is Mrs. Lu De's nephew and daughter-in-law——

Adele discussed with the duke's father. Although the matter had been given full responsibility to Adele in name, it was impossible for the duke's father to really ignore everything.

At least in the overall situation, the Duke's father always needs to intervene a little bit to understand the situation clearly. Unlike the matters in the newspapers, the matters related to the field and the farm are currently under the name of the Duke's father, and the land has not been transferred to Adai. In my name.

Since Mrs. Lude is going to work hard with Adele to the Duval's house in the future, she understands her efforts and efforts to ensure that she will be more loyal to the Juradi family. The farm under the first name asked for a living. Adele thought of the dedication and good performance of those ladies in the matter of damaged and repaired curtains, so she simply gave them a new job to see the level.

Well done, this little Mrs. Lude can get unexpected benefits, and she will naturally be able to improve in the future.

If you can't do it well, it means that you still have a little bit of talent in management and overall planning. At most, you will fall back to the level of ordinary embroiderers and weavers, and at least you can be a group leader, and you don't grow crops at all. It's relatively easy to come.

They also know this kind of arrangement in their hearts.

But I am still very grateful that when assigning work tasks, Adele will give priority to female employees.

Not to mention anything else, because it is hard to find a job with a good salary. It is already very satisfying to have such a job, and it is very gratifying to be able to take care of the children in the rest of the time.

"I didn't think it was so good before..." Adele smiled, and she was also a little happy when she heard Mrs. Daumier's praise and listed one, two, three, and four to explain the advantages and benefits of this fabric.

"Hearing what you said now, I feel a lot more at ease. According to the current situation, as long as the supply of raw cotton is in place, the supply can increase immediately, whether it is released for sale or used by yourself. "

"We still have to make a name for ourselves," Madame Daumier reminded her.

"I've looked at these fabrics carefully, and I can tell you that they are not inferior in quality to those sold in the Suss store, and it seems that this kind of strong fabric is especially liked by ordinary people. It is comfortable and durable to wear for work. , the most important thing is that the price is much cheaper than others.”

"I know your goal is to make excellent high-end cloth, but the most basic thing about a good cloth is the material, then the pattern and color... and then the designer's use of the cloth. A piece of ordinary cloth falls In the hands of an excellent tailor, it can be made into an excellent skirt, but the quality of the fabric is not so intuitive, especially this kind of cotton, and the others are also cotton. If you want to stand out, you need to improve the "quality" And fame, we can only start from other places.”

"I understand what you mean."

Adele nodded yes.

Nowadays, most of the people who directly buy fabrics are ordinary people, and ordinary people need to sew dresses by themselves. This can not only save fabrics, but also save a lot of money for work .

But those who are a little bit elite, let alone the upper class, have specialized designers to make clothes, no matter how bad they are, there are also suitable tailors. Even if the rich ladies want to learn a little sewing and embroidery, it will be icing on the cake, won't it? There will be no day when this skill will be used.

Of course Adele understands this matter. On the one hand, Mrs. Daumier is reminding her that the best way to increase her reputation is to make beautiful clothes out of this fabric and get good reviews on her body—this is Dumier. Mrs. E can do it, and it is just right for a famous and prestigious noble lady like Adele to wear it.

On the other hand, she was also tactfully comforting her. The positioning of this fabric is a bit strange. Compared with the top cotton fabric, it is obviously much worse in color and pattern. The problem of this kind of craftsmanship will have to wait Adele can only achieve technological breakthroughs by digging out more outstanding talents or waiting for the artisans recruited by her to slowly develop them.

Although such unpretentious cotton cloth can be sold to more acceptable civilians, in fact there are more types of cloth on the market. The more expensive ones include silk materials in summer, or the velvet, cashmere, and furs in autumn and winter, and the cheap ones are of inferior quality. Uneven linen, or slightly inferior cotton.

Their batch of cotton cloth only considers the quality of the touch, it is really good, it is comfortable to the touch, and the weaving thread is also tight. In addition, compared to those cotton threads with few strands or not tightly arranged, it is also very warm. , it is the highest in the practicality of similar cotton cloth.

But this means that its pricing will become more uncertain.

It is true that some problems can be overcome in terms of output and the cost price can be reduced, but as more and more machines are used, this kind of price reduction is unreasonable and cannot last long. The biggest competitiveness is to ensure that the thing itself is good enough to be irreplaceable or is to form a brand.

If it is priced as high-end cotton cloth, mainstream civilians may not necessarily buy it.

But if the price is too cheap, you can indeed make a small profit in the short term, but no one can tell what will happen in the long run. Perhaps through technological innovation, the price of traditional textile fabrics such as cotton cloth will drop by a part as a whole...

"I understand what you mean." Adele nodded, motioning for Mrs. Daumier to sit down and chat, but she refused.

"Let me stand, I want to show you some of my semi-finished products."

Mrs. Daumier took a stack of her design drafts. At first Adele thought she was not very proficient, but later she discovered that Mrs. Daumier was still a partial genius.

Her talent in women's clothing far exceeds that of men's clothing. Frankly speaking, her son's clothes are also designed and processed by her, which is far less stunning than her women's clothing.

She has amazing creative desire and conception ability in fashion design and production.

Maybe it was the hard days of working hard on the baseline of life that drained her energy a little bit, leaving her no time to think about other things.

Now, she is free from the days when she was poor and worried about being robbed of her property.

Now that she came to Paris so poor and for nothing, such a desperate move actually allowed her to find a way out, and it just made the life of the whole family look better.

The old man no longer has to worry about food and drink, her son has gone to school, and the best thing is that she has more free time to study and work.

She has a maid assistant assigned to her by Juradi Manor, and she is usually asked to help her.

Part of the pressure was relieved, and she spent more time on creation. Unlike other designer wives before, she had a license and served Adele exclusively.

Adele didn't rush her and gave her more free time.

After she finished explaining her design ideas and showed her four semi-finished clothes, Adele once again lamented that she is indeed a talented person.

"It never occurred to me that a random lady I found on the street was a genius in design. Paris is such an incredible place."

Adele sighed silently in her heart.

"What do you think?" asked Madame Daumier, chatting with her, about her summer and autumn habits.

A good designer not only tailors clothes according to the body shape of the wearer, but also has the ability to adapt.

Be able to find out the other party's behavior and activity habits through chatting and asking, for example, some high-necked clothes, the collar reaches the chin, sometimes you need to relax a little, sometimes you don't need it, different girls may have different Those who like buttons, some prefer open ones...

The layout is fixed, but the size of the details are all the designers have to actively learn through inquiries and other methods.

If this set of clothes is going out, because you want to exercise, you may have to relax or reduce a little, otherwise it will be inconvenient to walk.

These clothes are worn in summer, but this is a lively lady who plays around even in summer, so you must pay attention to it, especially in terms of materials.

The noble ladies and wives may not notice all of these things, they will only judge whether they want to continue with her based on the effect of the clothes they make.

And Mrs. Daumier has a natural sensitivity to this, maybe it is experience or talent, and her vigorous creativity...

"Honestly speaking, I like this series of design concepts very much." Adele smiled, "At first I thought that the phrase 'luxury in simplicity' that I casually mentioned would be regarded as a setback and you would scold me secretly .”

"No, designers have to be brave enough to face challenges, and with all due respect, you are already very easy to talk to." Mrs. Daumier boasted with a smile.

"Not to mention 'simple luxury', even 'simple luxury', I have some ideas, but the latter series are more suitable for autumn and winter clothes."

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Mrs. Daumier, Party B.: Come on, Party A's father!