The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-22
NEW YORK,s MAy MILLISER.
The Mysteries OF Women's Dress-Lau-
rels Plucked from the Brows OF the
Partisan Modistes.

IL rpay not be generally known that there
are half dozen dressmak!ng establishments
In New York where the sewing upon dresses
is,almost entirely performed by men, although
they are not visible to the ladies who call to
give their orders.
Three doors west of Broadway, on Ninth
street. IL the fourishing establishment OF
man-dressmaker and costume designer, Mon
sieur Moschcowitz, young Hungarian. HIS
place is elegantly furnished, and on your arrl-
Yal Iiss Russell, an American. and the junior
partner In the house, receives you and taxes
your orders, or gives you Information.
Very few dresses are to be seen; none
are on exhibition. But those that are
I'M the makers hands are executed IN
a style equal to Worth's own designs,
for Moschcowitz was a pupil of that world
renowned man-milliner, and his father also
followed the business at Wurtemberg. The
second and third floors are the workrooms Of
theoperstives who execute MoschcOwitz's de-
signs They are all burly, strong men, Ger
mansi Prussians, Poles and Hungarians, they
si. on. stools, not chairs, and their scissors,
thread, wax and other appliances are deposit
ed on the, floor by their sides. They work by
the piece, and earn from $40 TO $50 dollars
week. Only the basjng is done by hand; the
sewing machines, of which they have variety
in one room,' work the seams. Each man
baste6 his dress and prepares II lOr nLtlnS;
aud, when fitted, finishes II with rapidity at oil
points. Where women are employed, two
dozen. are often found upon dress, working
piece-meal at It's several parts Women, from
want OF training, are rarely perfect IN the
trade. z Some Will excel in one or two depart.
ments and be deficient in Others
The prices obtained BY the men for making
dress vary with the material. figured Or
candle was shown, completely finished IN eve
~ Way In day and a quarter, with hens,
bands, trimming Of waist and drapery, high IN
the neck, with bretelles over the bosom, and
bows, &c. The price was $50. The price paid
to the maker, independently of the cutting
and sewing machine work, was So so. He
was grim, grizzly old ff NV Of sixty. For
plain silk dress man eceives ST, and fnr
one trimmed from SIS to $28, according to the
work upon it. The work, when finished, has
a most elegant and artistic precision, being
superior in appearance. The piping Is made
by an Ingenious machine invented by Mosch-
cowjtz. az an attachment to the sewing ma
chine. Une is shown attached to a Wilcox &
Gibbs,s sInge-thread machine, but it Is said to
work lust as well on the double-stitchers.
Another Invention of Moschcowitz's, the friz-
zling machine, also is seen. it pays out tne
bias edge OF piece of silk, and ut the same
time secures 1t by stitch from furtner raVsl-
ling. THIS is also sewing machine attacn-
ment. Both Inventions have been paCenteo;
MoschcoTltz ls known all over the Unlted
States by the leaders OF fashion, and sorna OF
bus costumes have gone to europe In the out
fits Of the wives OF ministers and attaches to
foreign courts.