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How Gilded Age Heiresses Spent a Single Week in Paris: 12 Fittings, 6 Couturiers, No Budget

The morning light fell in soft angles over the mirrored staircase of the House of Worth on 18 April 1900, when Anna Gould, Countess de Castellane, adjusted her kid-leather gloves before stepping into the fitting salon. A society-column fragment from the New York Herald (Paris Edition) recorded her arrival that week as "punctual, composed, and impeccably gloved," a small detail that concealed the true machinery behind her calm. Beneath the chandelier's gold glass, bolts of ivory satin lay arranged like evidence; seamstresses moved with quiet urgency around a new evening gown commissioned for the Exposition season. Anna touched the glove seam again — a gesture that looked graceful, but was, in her letters, a signal of calculation. "I must be more than dressed," she once wrote, "I must be seen."