A Nineteenth-Century French Seamstress's Daily Struggle to Support Her Family

Janet transmigrated to nineteenth-century Paris, where the city was already a capital of fashion, all glittering lights, fine living, and cutting-edge style.

Her original self was a factory worker on an assembly line in the suburbs. Her parents had brought her younger siblings from the countryside to join her, after a landlord they'd angered ruined their family's land. They had barely enough to eat and nowhere else to go.

After hitting one dead end after another, the family had no choice but to start over in an unfamiliar city.

In their cramped room, her mother and two sisters huddled together while her father and brother slept on the floor. Every day, they could only eat hard, black bread and drink awful-tasting grass soup. In a city full of fashionistas, they wore coarse clothes and were treated like country bumpkins.

Janet looked at her hands. They were covered in calluses from factory work, and her skin was no longer fair and smooth.

Watching her family work so hard to find jobs, Janet decided to take a bold step of her own and pursue the fashion design industry she'd long admired. Who says a factory girl can't become a queen of fashion?

P.S. The story of a family's struggle in Paris, France.

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