The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-31
WORTH AND PINGET.
TWO OF THE PRINCIPAL DRESSMAKE

| TWO OF THE PRINCIPAL DRESSMAKERS OF PARIS.
Lucy Hooper's Paris Letter to the Philadelphia
Telegraph
| 1t is an odd fact, and one that does not par
| ticularly carry out the theories of the woman's
equality advocates, that the two chief dress
makers of Paris-Wo rth and Pinget-should
both be men. The first, that king of dress
makers, is hard at work enlarging his palace
| Of fashion, on the Rue de 10 Paix. A new
series Of rooms opening out Of wide, we'll
lighted corridor, will shortly give space for
the display of his unrivaed styles. 1t is rather
interesting to sit quietly waiting in one of the
and to note how every detail in this vast es-
Enlistment owes it completeness and finish
to bis hand
Here, there and everywhere, attending to
one customer, answering the questions Of q
second, giving advice to a third, sitting in
Judgment on the toilette Of a fourth, showing
one girl how to put In a sleeve, and second
how to trim a skirt fastening on waist. trim.
ming for one dress and disposipg lace in
graceful curves for another. 1t is easy to see
how he has won his reputation and made his
fortune There is no doubt but that in his
own line he is real genius, and when to that
qualification is added untiring industry and
inexhaustible energy, it is no wonder that his
creations in dress have attained such world
wide celebrity. One thing about him that is
very astonishing, is his memory. Show him
a piece of lace, for instance, aud he will pen
slvely remark. ''ah, yes you bought that lace
of me in 1868"
1t was then in pale blue silk, the skirt of
which was cut 50 and so, and trimmed in such
way, and it was Topped at the side with
cluster of blush roses, three roses and five
buds to the cluster" Absurd as the above
mo 10 ,rb taI
and yet the number of dresses that are an
nually sent out from his renowned atelier
must amount to several thousand. From the
queen to the coquette, all classes of female
SOC ETY. confess his power and bow beneath his
scep.er, for there is nobody like him in all
the wide range of Partisan DIRE Shaking. He
alone possesses that marvellous power of COM
bining colors together with that SUBTLE in
defnable thing called IL style" that cannot be
described, but yet is SO real and attractive.
l have described so many dresses lately
that 1 hesitate to give description Of the |
marvels have recently beheld in the ''Courts |
of the King One, however ball Dress |
intended for the bride of Prince Milan, of
Servia, me rits special mention. 1t was rich |
pearl-coiored satin, the front crossed with |
three wide scars of satin, fastened plainly at |
one side and drawn up into graceful tullness
at the other, where they were met by long
train OF exquisite roses With buds and foliage. |
The petals of these roses were of most beau
tiful and indescribable shade, something be.
tween pink and a pale crimson, and the COM
binstion of color with the silyery pearl of the
satin was simply marvellous.
Worth is trimming this season black silk
house-dressas with vivid scarlet. The bows
and sashes and hounces of one superb black
silk were all lined with heavy scarlet silk,
while another was trimmed with narrow
bands of scarlet Of course so brilliant and
a hue needs to be disposed with
infinite art TO render the combination at once
tasteful and not too snowy.
One celebrated m IN dressmaker of Paris
drives out every day in the Bots de Boulogne.
He wears kid gloves of peculiar and delicate
lilac hue, and always rides with one foot up
on the front seat, the trouser leg on that side
being slightly drawn up so as to display silk
hose of precisely the same hue as his gloves.
Chandiar said he vauId not have been more |