St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-31
The SOCIETY GIRL.
She Is a Very Expensive Lux
ury for Millionaire
Papas.
1t Costs $4,000 a Year for
Her to Manage
On.

NEW YORK, July 80, 1S92.-It has
been decided that $4,000 year is only
Just enough for the society girl to dress
and manage On.& Good heavens! =! Is
she really such an extravagent creature?
Wait a minute-l said to dress on, but
not only to dress-notice-als to
manage ON. Manage is a comprehen-
Slye term and means all sorts of things.
For one thing it means paying a maid,
for maid is fast getting to be neces-
sity to the spoilt bud. Some one to make
her look nice VIXEN she feels tired ana
looks worn out; some one to tie the
bows, and arrange the flowers, to brush
the hem of the soiled gown. to wash lace
and look after the washing, to write
notes at dictation and to periure her
soul by saying that her mistress
is not at home to unwelcOme
visitOrs-in short, useful and accom-
plished creature like this is the best in
vestment to which a society girl can put
her money if she is not troubled with
two much of this worlds goods. And
this wonderful creature costs about
$4,000 or more year. Then there are
continental trips, home trips. theater
parties, luncheon parties. church seat,
the brougham or harsOm,t to say nothing
of that grand and tremendous item
dress.
Redfern can say little about that
part of it. He seldom, if ever, sells
gown under sos. and yet he sells good
many, so that is about the lowest price
which society girls pay for their gowns.
Two hundred and fifty dollars is price
which he receives oftener, while for
dressier gowns the price is still higher.
hof thn ~ h
customers are by far the easiest to
please. Mrs. Vanderbilt is not half
as fussy as poor Miss Smith, OF Sleepy
Hollow. Neb. Just lately the New York
Recorder published an advertisements
which Redfern stated that he would
furnish SIS tailormade gown to any
one who presented at their establish.
ment, 2l0 Fifth avenue, the tinto-
graph published by the Recorder,
and bearing certain number.
One day during the present slack sea-
son young man wearing suit of pie
blan cut, and nervous, heated manner,
came gingerly stepping over the GRIM
son carpet and stood in Redfern's salon
apparently much awed by the coats-of-
arms and Prince of Wales feathers,
with which the place is rather Ostenta-
tiOusly decorated.
He stood nervouSly tapping his foot
on the velvet pile carpet until one of
the handsome Saleswomen sailed up to
him and asked him. in her best extra
finished English manner. what she
could do for him. Il don't know if this
is hoax" he said, handing her the
tintograph, ''but my wife, she got the
picture numbered 20.71O, and that's the
number your advertisement offers a
Redfern gown for.''
My wife. she always reads the Record
er to me at breakfast: we take it regu-
lar, and she shouts out this morning.
Jim, I've got the Redfern gown,~ and
she made ME hurry up and come here
right away. She'll be trrrlbly disap-
pointed if lisa hoax"
The English saleswoman, with some
difficulty convinced him that it was not
a hoax. He seemed quite stunned, and
appeared to think it too good to be true.
She then showed him patterns of cloth
and inquired what time his wife would
come and be fitted. He said: ..Oh.
she dare'st come!'' Then said the
charming sevitor. in precisely the same
tone that she has used to the Prin-
Cess of Wales and the Duchess
OF Ieck." Could your wife oblige us by
sending pattern bodice? Here, Wis
ions of a time-worn bodice with cracked
seams, broken bones and evidences of
other accidents, must have fioated
across the husbands brain for he ap-
peared embarrassed and said he guessed
his wife would rather not send her
bodice. Couldn't it be done some other
way? SO finally card of measures was
filled out according to the lucky iady's
dimensions. and the gown is now in
course of preparation.
Redfern's latest novelty, as perhaps
you have heard, is high vest of un-
dressed kid. With this is worn the Eton
jacket and skirt. Also with his three
quarters length open brocaded coat, he
makes a delicate white vest, double
breasted and with lapels. Lace having
become so very common, Redfern is be-
ginning to renounce it, Or only to use
the very costliest kinds.