The Arizona champion., 1891-01-03
DISCARDED EMERY.
Discoveries Made by an h.
 quisitive Reporter.
TIE FATE OF CAST OFF GLOTRIEa.
Garments Found in Secondhand Cloth
 ing Stores of the Better Glass.

"What do the fashionable and wealthy
 women of New York do with their dis
 carded garmentst" This question is sug gested by one of our thoughtful readers i He says: "lo be in the swim these ladies must have cords and cords of clothes to cast of, entirely too many for supply of their poor relations. Do they sell them7
 Do they invite the old clo men to their houses? They cannot give 'cm to their
 servants. What do they do with emY l Looking this subject up, a reporter 1 learned that the ladies of New York have
 various ways of disposing of their dis
 carded garments, and instead of being at all embarrassed to do so they could dis pose of many more. It is certain that 1 none of them is thrown into the street.
 That many of them are sold is obvious 1 from the fact that in second hand cloth ing stores of the better class there are al
 ways to be found rich garments that have 1 been but little worn There is quite as much difference between second hand i stores as there is between stores where
 only new goods are sold. There are plenty of second hand stores where only goods of first quality are sold; where very nice silks, satins lace, upholstery and bric-a- brac can always be found, and where the prices are kept quito above the reach of 1 ordinary people, although far below first i hand prices for such goods. It need not l be inferred that all these goods are bought
 directly from first owners. In many cases they arc bought of second owners, who have received them as gifts from the first
 owners, who discard everything the mo-
 ment that it goes out of fashion. DISLIKE THE BOTHER.
 Yet there are rich ladies who sell every
 thing of this kind, not so much for the money as for the convenience of it. They do not like the bother of doling out gifts. l Of course, they do not call in the ordinary old clo' man. They would not for the 1 world exchange a word with the conten- tious iunkmen who are so anxious to ex- ! change crockery for old garments. They
 deal with quiet, nice people, who mako Q business of going to dwelling houses by appointment to appraise and purchase such goods. The advertisements of these
 upper class" dealers may always be found in the newspapers. The fact that tho business is profitable is apparent from the fact that such advertisements do con stantly appear, and such garments may always be found in second hand stores. One very capacious outlet for such goods is found in the aid societies of the various churches and the rapaciouS demands of ladies' fairs. Much rich clothing gets cut up to make crazy quilts, pin cushions and the million knickknacks that go to fill 0 ladies' fair The underclothing is easily seized by the benevolent ladies for distri- button among the poor, to whom rich outer garments would be an inappropriate gift.
 Some rich ladies do not scruple to use up all their old silk or satin dresses as lining for new garments. These silk and satin Things arc not only elegant and styl- ish, but they are very comfortable and convenient. They are lighter than ordi nary Innings.
 But the poor relations are not forgotten.
 There are many of them in New York. Most of the rich families have come up from poverty by long course of hard work and active business. Very few have been able to bring up all their relations with them. The poor relations have daughters who must be made presentable when they visit the rich houses, and they
 are not only not ashamed to accept gifts
 of clothing, but are very glad to get it. There are also many poor women in New
 York who have once been rich, whose hus-
 bands or fathers have failed in business
 or died with embarrassed estates, and who
 rely upon old associates among the rich for suitable clothing to keep up respect
 able appearance.
 ACTRESS COSTUMES.
 As to the leading actresses who have
 large and expensive wardrobes, they do
 not need to give away or sell much cloth
 ing. Tho eXigencies of their profession
 require large quantities of material to pro-
 vide costumes for various'parts, and their
 good dresses are made over and over
 again and reappear in various forms, arc
 interchanged, mixed and mingled 50 that
 the original shape is unrccognizable.
 There is no end to the uses that expert
 costuners can make of good material,
 which, whether the property of tho rich
 or the professional, need never go beg
 ging. Much of tho discarded clothing of
 rich ladies does find its way to tho stage
 costumer, and reappears in the court
 trains, the ball room robes, and other
 wonders of the toilet that grace the fair
 forms of walking ladies, and astound the
 minimizing female in the audience at the
 lavish expenditure which the manager has
 made.
 Much of the best material of the dis carded dresses of rich ladies finds it's way
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 more marketable or fashionable color, or gets done in black, which is equally the taste Of the grave and gay, the lively and severe. And thus in many ways the old dresses of rich ladies are conserved and contribute their mito to Illustrate that triumph of civilization that is approaching when nothing goes to waste. The refuse of the gas house is made into the most gorgeous aniline dyes, and applied to faded rich materials, to again reappear in th"5e delightful forms that over fascinate the gaze of man and absorb so much of the time and thoughts of women. Thus ever the old is transformed into tho new in the alembic of time and through the 1 genius ali, invention of man and woman. | New Yor4, sun.