The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-26
THE COST OF CLOTHES.
What it Costs to Dress for the
Stage.

Annie Louise Cary, modest in ex-
penditure, ssys that her wardrobe for
last year, although she is not by any
means the gorgeous creature whom
Worth dresses. cost $4,000. From
that we might get q starting point.
American actresses dress more ex-
traVagsDtly than any women in the
world. The foreigners who appear
before the American public usually
come plainly dressed, but they are
made to understand that costuming
is part OF their art. Madame Ger
ser has been wearing the same
clothes ever since her first appear
ance here; not that she is accused of
never having had a new dress, but
she has never had a new wardrobe.
The cantatrice and her husband are
said to be a prudent pair, and
Madame Eteika puts her money in
the bank instead Of wearing it on her
back.
At the Cincinnati opera festival
Madame Patti wore a Nile green
satin. embroidered in Neil roses. She
wore all of her diamonds, and If she
bad been sold in lump, counting
the treasury Of her voice, she would
have been worth in the neighborhood
of 81, 900 00G. Satin and diamonds
were not always the attire of Saliva.
tore. PATHS daughter. In days gone
by when her voice, il not technique.
was as glorious as now, when che
and Vieuxtemps. who afterWayd
reaped golden harvests also, and
reigned in Paris as the greatest living
violinist, with Amelia Patti Stra-
koscb, formed the little concert
troupe that travelled through provin-
cial towns, poor Adelina had but few
gowns, and had to make them her,
self. The green satin gown she wore
at her last appearance in Cincinnati
could not have cost less than $1,000, |
and stage wear is trying on clothes.
There is no more pathetic chap
ter in Emma Abbott's early strug-
Cling career than her efforts to make
a good stage appearance with the
poor muslins and cheap laces. There
has been a siliy attempt to cry
down the strong endesvors of this
artist whose work is her conscience,
but woman must have a voice as
well as a will to face a concert
room as she has done in shabby
clothes. Honor the brave little
singer
Mrs. Florence is said to give
carte blanche to the French dress
makers, and the results are beauti-
full. The most thoroughly we'll
dressed woman on any stage was
probably the Polish actress, Madame
Modieska. She had q real genius
for clothes. She had, indeed, the
delicate and striking beauty of Polish
women. and there were no defective
parte to conceal. Her arms were
long but very beautiful. She dressed
exouisitely in public and in private.
Even during the disagreeableness of
D rough ocean voyage, she was
always msrvelously we'll costumed.
One day, as she walked the deck
when the wind was blowing great
2uns-for she is VIGOROUSLY the best
sailor on every ship on which she trav-
els-a gentleman remarked on the
'erviceable simplicity of the dress she
wore. Mon Dieu," she said "this
Ierviceable simplicity cost me / 200
rance" What the ornamental ele.
sance cost her may be left to the i'm
lgination and Worth.
Sara BernhRrdt, like Rachel. Is
difficult to dress, and no
lrt in the world can make her look I
we'll in full dress. The long, g
Bernhardt gloves were '
invented to conceal her attenuated !
arms; strings OF pearls and diamonds e!
'over her angular neck. but her <
physical defects can net be CLOSED II
'ver when she is in grand toilet. r
AS Sara Bernhardt is too thin for &
ull dress, so Nile. Croizette, he.
ival. is too fat. Fanny Davenport, o
nee the glory of the stage dress y
makers, hes reached that point when q
TT has to be called in to make s. Ct
tout woman look slim. She no II
onger wears the pretty psle-blne q
oy's costume in "As You Like II" y
hat was so captivating 10 years ago. o.
lew she is as sober as Jenny Wren d
erselt; but sombre browns and L
lacks do not altogether conceal her p
liddle-aged embonpoint. is
The inability to make over stage n
resses is one explanation of the ex. IL
essive cost of a wardrobe Ter the
cards. They are made wiej double pl
1ws OF sewin+ aud strong seams. GO
he various fA -tings, fallings, and SO
mbrscings get the waists cut OF 70
1spe. the trains become soiled and "
lveled, and at the end of the season ye
thousand dollar costume is only fiji ga
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