Worth's father bankrupted abusing alcool etc.. Hence Charles Frederick Worth could not have entered law whether he liked it or not and at the age of 11, poor because of his father failure had to work and skip school.
He worked first in a printer shop and then as shop helper at Swan an Edgar in London and then only became in time a sales man there, and then went at Lewis & Allenby.
In 1825 he went to Paris with 15 pounds in his pocket worked a few job before he joined Gagelin

Yes he had talent and ideas but after he ahd become first sales men and wanted to do more Gagelin was very reluctant to open a dress department. One has to remember that at that time there was tissues sellers and dress makers. The latter where only women. They feared tag such a move would be detrimental to their business . They were conservative indeed
Legend said that he ( grand father of my grand mother) met his wife Mary Vernet at Gagelin where she was working. This completely untrue.
there wedding contract states that she is unemployed in 1851 wedding date and also unemployed on the birth certificate of Gaston Worth in 1853. So she most probably joined the firm after this date and started to wear dresses made on the side by her husband CFW.
She was wearing at work and thus the demand from customers asking for a dress like the one worn by " la demoiselle de Magasin". Gagelin and Opigez finally decided to open a small department but it was never said any where that the maker was CFW.
The prizes won by his employer in 1853 and 1855 didi not mention his name. Worth did not receive personally a prize
But the 1855 portrait of the Eugenie Empress among her court ladies painted by Winterhalter shows clearly that she is, without knowing it, already wearing a dress conceived by CFW, probably a gift made but conceived at Gagelin by CFW.

His employer failed to make him a real partner, so he left and founded his own company with Otto Boberg who also wanted to create his own business.

There was no gossip of his earlier patrons.

It was Marie Vernet who visited the Duchess of Metternich with sketches and proposed to her that CFW would make a dress for her. (Refer to her own "Memory in Paris") and the the Empress after seeing the beautiful dress ordered CFW to come to the "Palais des Tuilleries". And then came the european success in all the courts and also into the theater and opera actresses and later on the american success with all spouses of the new rich people. Worth employed more than a thousand people.

Worth never escape in balloon during the 1870 war. The only person who escape like this was the politician Gambetta who went and organized the resistance on the Loire River.
On the contrary , on occasion his shop was open for hospital purpose. It is also known that some revolutionary crowd going by rue de la Paix wanted Gaston, watching from the window to join them.

Before the third generation it should be mentioned the second one with Gaston and Jean-Philippe Worth who turned the company into a real business They Joined in 1874. Gaston soon managed organisation and finances while Jean-Philippe was the creator. The third generation had every thing already cooked for them but after the late 30 ies they did not manage to maintain the thing. We know what happened after the war, they lost everything .
Jean-Charles Worth head of the third generation made the front page of Time Magazine around 1925 but he died a very poor man in 1962.

The wedding hair dress was created for my aunt wedding Arlette Lemoine in 1926 ; The picture of Madame lemoine, my father's mother, whom I have very well known is also dated from 1926 and taken the day of my aunt wedding in may 1926. She was as her daughter wearing Worth
All the "demoiselles d'honneur" (9 of them) wore also Worth Dress that day. I have a 2.5 minutes movie from this event
The rest of the press text is mostly interesting.
Hoping to have contributed a little bit to this
Yours
Jean-Philippe Lemoine