On the other hand, Frette goods were directed towards satisfying a specific need of the national bourgeoisie. Home lingerie in fact, more than nowadays, in the second half of the 1800s and in the
first half of the 1900s, had almost the value of instrumental assets the house-enterprise. It was considered an investment or capital expenditure to be amortized over a good number of
years. It certainly is not by chance that it formed a sizeable part of the bride’s dowry