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Born in Beiles, France, Dache started sewing doll clothes at a young age from expensive fabric scraps from her mother's wardrobe. She hated school and was truant so often that when she was fourteen her parents refused to spend any more money on books that she did not read. As a teenager she apprenticedwithanauntwhowasamillinerinBordeaux. In the 1920s Dache immigrated to the United States with fifteen dollars in her pocket and was promptly hired as a salesgirl in a New York millinery.
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