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From the `union parfaite' to the `union brisée': The French Couture Industry and the midinettes during the Great WarCostume, vol. 47, n°1, janvier 2013, pp. 28-44(17)Bass-Krueger, MaudeThis article is an expanded version of a paper presented at the ‘Developments in Dress History’ conference at the University of Brighton in December 2011. Based on research from the author's master's thesis, ‘La mode en France durant la Première Guerre mondiale’, written at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, this article examines the declining relationship between the Chambre syndicale de la couture parisienne, the couturiers and the seamstresses, which ignited an industry-wide labour strike in May 1917.voir le sommaire du journalacheter l’article