Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-19
WITH The DREssxAKERs.

Win lnE Vh6oSA
Some Of the women They Have to Contsn,
With-Fair FRAUDS.
; Chicago Herald.
"Do you find women unreasonable II
their demands?" asked q hard-workinl
Chicago dressmaker.
! She lifted her tired face from the ricl
lace dress she was thoughtfully studying
and answered:
every"
sin what way ?" asked.
swell, will tell you some instances
Not long since . lady came to ask me II
could make q dress for her within the
next twenty four hours. / told her
thought BY sitting up all night could &C.
complish it. She asked my price, which
1 gave her. Are you crszy?' che almos,
screamed at me. why, no. l said,
what makes you think thst?'
For asking such an outrageous
price, she snapped. told her ths,
was my customary price, that had not
even charged her extra for sitting up all
night. but she was so angry that she went
away in high dudgeon. 1 afterwsrd
learned that che psId shop S25 for
making the dress; mad asked $40 for the
WORK. She never considered how hard 1t
is after cutting and fitting sl1 day to sit
up all through q night sewing for dear
life, and so would pay some one else as
much again IS l charged, in order to
teach me lesson"
Ipondered on this particular phase Of
the differences between labor and capt.
tai, while she was directing pale, hol-
low-eyed girl how to sew silver braid on
white vest. Presently she continued:
"Ladies often xpect work to be as per-
feet in every way for q cheap price ss,for
higher one They want their dresses
handsome and well-ti.ting, and, cor
rect in every detail, but they don't
like to pay accordingly. Then they
think. too, that we are trying to make q
lot Of, money e Innings and trimmings
when we furnish them. Why, there are
many ladies who would never think of al.
lowing dcessmaker to furnis b !inlogs, for
fear she might make few cents"
Nor did she exaggerate. Women
straightway become suspicious when
dressmsker asks: "Shall 1 furnish the
linings2" They at once fancy there is q
deep.laid plot between shop keepers
and dressmakers to rob unsuspecting
females. No, they will bring their lin
ings. So they will tramp from shop to
shop, pricing dr. ling, hooks and eyes,
facings and so on, firing themselves and
everybody else out, ali for few yaros Of
cambria, and to save, perhaps, in all, Is
to 20 cents. They don't intend any dress
maker shall make anything out Of them,
not they, so they give the shopkeepers
what profit there may be, swelling the
revenues Of the rich retail houses and
spelling the dressmaker's poor little
| speculstions,
1t may al be resolved into a simple
statement and question. Admit, ladies[
there is a small profit somewhere. Why
not give 1t to hard working womeris-
dependent upon sewing for bread and
butter?
Then there Is class OF women who err
quite as much In an opposite direction. A
| lady Is to have rich silk costume made.
1t is to DE deliberately trimmed with Jet.
That one little word means an awful lot
of money in these days. The jst front of
dress may be $50. Ordinary trimmings
of this beautiful gerniture often amount
to $40 or S25. -
Miss Flora McFl!msey goes tosh her
dressmsker. She is measured, fitted, and
as she turns to go she says langhishfy:
80, you msy IS we'll select the trim
mings. 1t is such q bore. want them
handsome, of course. Nothing cheap or
taWdry"-ind out che goes, leaYIng q
blank, rueful face behind her, as the
dressmaker opens her attenusted purse
and wonders how she can spare the
money to buy these trimmings, and wait
perhaps three or four weeks for her bill
to be paid. Well, well, she must manage
some wsy-cannot afford to offend patrons
johnny must 60 without his new clothes
the DOCTORS bill will have to be unpaid
while lsnger-she must placa.e the
butcher and baker sonewAy, all on &C.
count Of Miss Flora's carelessness and il
dolence. / so often hear women say
80 II emily had money how much good
1 would do-especially would 1 help my
own sex" o, ladies, ladies, If you would
but remember that little sympathy, q
little tact, little thoughtfulness goes
such long way toward doing good, and
toward helping others not 60 fortunate
as yourselves.
"What is the greatest drawback you
find in your business2" I asked another
Chicago dressmaker. She ruminated q
moment. then answered: swell, on the
whole, / think the husband. A lady
comes to have dress made. suggest q
certain style of drapery; no, indeed, that
won't do-her husband doesn't like ORA
peries. Another comes to me and l ad-
wise plain skirt. o, no, she must have
plenty of draping-her husband says q
woman without lots Of drapery is q per-
feet gswky."
"Do you think the husbands really in
terfere, or is this all said for effect2" I
asked.
"Indeed. they do interfere. 1 know q
number of ladies who would not dare
order the manner of construction of q
dress unless they had first consulted their
husbands, and even had one customer
whose husband came with her and, 51us
perintended the fitting and Sdrap-
ing, but I fually put an end
to that sort of thing" said MadsSne,
her eyes swapping vigorously. Wcq9idn's
stand mis- mincing ways and his tax about
preserving the curves and the harmony Of
tone and the symmetry Of curves, and 1
told the lady so, and she had to take her