The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-08-29
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20. 1888.
HOW THE STARS DRESS.


Edwin Booth pays little attention to what
he wears
Minnie Palmer has spent fortune on
stockings alone.
Agnes Booth spends vast sums of money on
clothes for the stage
Mrs. D. p Bowers. while an artist in
making up, spends but little on dress.
Stuart Robson expends a considerable
share of his income in dressing himself.
Annie Plxley made trip to the mines to
study up the rays and dress she wears in
"Mlissn
Margaret Mather possesses good working
wardrobe, but it is not one to excite especial
comment
Billy Florences clothes are always abso-
lutely perfect and worth great many
mighty dollars.
"Dromion Cranes somewhat fastidious
taste in dress involves an expenditure, 1t is
said, Of more than 81 500 year.
Fred Warde spends enormous sums OF
money on his stage costumes, as well as the
clothes which he wears in private life.
Clara Morris has one of the largest and
most expensive of wardrobes on the Ameri-
can stage. She designs all her own costumes.
Mrs Florence is 60 years old. but she still
keeps up as magnificent a wardrobe as when
she dazzled the country in ''The Mighty Dol
lar"
For single front of dress worn in
Fedora" Fanny Davenport paid Marion
Foster. the artist cripple OF Minerva, o.,
$1,000.
Lawrence Barrett is the best and most
carefully dressed actor on the American
stage. His costumes in 'sRienzin cost over
5000.
Florence Girard, wife of Henry E. Abbey,
during her brief connection with the Wal
lack company, spent over $1,000 ON her
dresses.
Lillian Olcott spent in the neighborhood OF
S., 900 for her "Theodora" wardrobe, besides
weeks of study in tho British museum hunt
ing up plates and prints.
Louis james will never consent to appear
IN a garb that is not as near perfect in ap-
pearance as it can be made by the outlay Of
time and money.
Joseph Jefferson is very particular in his
professional make up As Bob Acres in 1.-THE
Rivals" he wears ono of the most expensive
sttS ol dresses ever indue
T. w. Keene spares neither time, trouble
nor money in securing a proper and elegant
wardrobe His is said to be the largest and
most complete OF any one in his line.
Marie Wainwright is credited with being
the best dressed woman on the American
stage, although many actresses carry more
money to the dressmakers than she does
Mary Anderson pays but little heed to
costuning beyond that necessary to meet the
requirements Of the characters she plays
and has little or no wardrobe to boast Of
Modteska 10 so particular about her dresses
that she makes them herself That is, she
buys the material and has the cutters and
seamstresses como in and complete them
under her supervision.
Many of Maggie Mitchells dresses have
been picked up during years of ram
blings, and while inexpensive when consid-
cred separately, are worth a pretty penny
when considered together.
The dresses worn by Mrs. Langtry in "a
Wife's PERIL cost her something like 81 600
while her complete wardrobe, including the
dresses made this season for "As in Look
ing Glass, is valued at $4,000
Rose Coghlan, whose dresses as a star hay,
yet to be written up and commented upol
by the public at large, spent, as a rule, Will,
leading lady of the old Wallack stock com
pany from $500 TO $500 on her dresses fol
every new play in which she was cast