Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-12-29

DCrt1cularS aSKeu lOT' Out al
that Gotham leads in fashions for IN
and women. The styles for woHiS
apparel still come from gay Paris. Fun,
a year must elapse after Il garment be
comes the rage in Paris for the newesI
creations to make their appearance IL
New York, and quite as much time Is
required for London to follow Paris, al
though the great cities are only Il few
hours apart 1t often happens, too, that
Eew York women are quicker to follow
the Partisan styles than their English
sisters, so that it would seem us though
the fashion plates cross the ocean twice
to reach the tight little island.
Once New York women begin to pop
ularize hat or gown or parasol or any
other article of dress until it becomes
the lage, it takes quite six months for the
new design to reach San Francisco. 1t
takes double that time for the women of
Boston, Philadelphia or Washington to
fall into line after the New York women,
while three months more are required
for St. Louis and New Orleans women
to make up their minds to be in the gay
procession. The women of some of the
smaller cities follow a year and half
after New York, or two years and half
after the Partisan beauties.
1t is much the same with mems cloth
ing. London is, as it has always been,
the center of fashion for mems garments,
and it takes fully year for new designs
to become popular in New York.
The question of how much money New
York society women spend annually for
dresses and whether they wear costly
gowns more than once induced me to
ask the best known man dressmaker in
this city and London what he had to say
on the subject. He told me some inter-
esting facts.
THE richest people, as a rule" he
said, ARE more economical in dress than
those in moderate circumstances. The
Princess of Wales is so imbued with the
spirit of economy that she actually has
her gowns made over for her children.
Generally four drawing rooms oc-
cur annually, and the princess always
has new dress for each occasion, She
pays her own bills and does not wait
for the heir apparent to be dunned.
Often she wears the same dress half
dozen times, but not at notable royal
functions. Her dresses. all told, cost
over $2O,0QO year possibly $4,000.
This does not include lace trimmed
dresses.
Queen Victoria is the most econom-
ical Of the royal family, and from year
to year has her gowns cut in the same
style, Lady Dudley is splendid second
to the queen.
I'm New York the most extensively
dressed women are not the very richest.
When Edith Kingdom was an actryss she
cared less for expenses than now. Then
she would order dress and never ask
the price. but now as Mrs. Gould she al
ways asks the price. and often remarks
that because she is Mrs. Gould she does
not wish to pay any more for dress
than the regular price. Ada Rehan is
more liberal and seems to care less for |
expenses than many ladies whose hus-
bands are rated us worth millions. Mrs
Astor Is not eEtravagant at all in dress /
Mrs. Coleman Draytou and MANY others |
could mention are not prodigal in the !
matter OF dresses. The average society
woman OF wealth never spends over
S1,OOO year in dresses, for the very
reason that they wear each dress MANY
times.
Ball dresses are the cheapest, and
although usually the most fraIi. they
are often worn four times. The tulle is
changed for each ball, but the skirt re-
mains tho same. Reception dresses cost
more than ball dresses, and are used
many times by simply changing some
part OF the trimming. Even wedding
dresses were occasionally used again for
grand occasions. All the big prices re-
puted as paid for dresses are largely fic.
tltlous and never deceive knowing ones
Inc handsomest velvet dress that could
be devised could not cost over S25O and
d cloth dress Is worth only $3.50 at the
highest price. Old laces or sometime
expensive in trimming might make y
lreSs cost a great deal more, but on the {
"hole Sioo or $500 would go a long WAYS l
toward getting the finest kind of ma I
.e[lal Tor dresses. a woman who spends t
S p, year on dresses alone is more '
liberal than many royal DANES" t
closed the conversation by asking
am What finally became of the fine
lreSses OF the rich. He said that had I
Always puzzled him. His guess was
'ilat they were either sold or given to c
Door relations.-Foster Coates in New C
ork Mail and Express. s
Wonderful Corn.
a. D. Mercer, living near Burden
Aan'' has some corn which is the rarest
yer grown The patch was small bnt =
ne corn is kind that has never beon u
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