The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-09-01
HOW FASHIONS ARE LAUNCHED.
Popular Actresses Are the Best Agents for
Starting n New Style.

| starting New style.
On the whole it might be found that the
most profitable block" which could be sub
sidized by dressmakers and milliuers is the
actress In vogue who shines pre-eminently
IN modern comedy or modern vaudeville,
In such pieces a. La Famille Benoiton, -
lie Monde on Ton s'Amuse" and II IS
fenmes Fortes some of the lady mem bers
| OF the company, who wore as many as tn rec
or TOUR costumes in the course Of the even
ing-dresses made from the costliest mate
rails and confected with the most exquisite
tastes-served, perhaps. as better advertise
ments than if they had been oulv behel5
for few hours and at irregular Intervals
In the Bots, on a race course or at some f.,b-
ionable concert or bazaar
The 'mannequin" of the stage is NOV
eole' the ladies in the boxes and the gen
tienen IN the stalls can criticise the dress
IRON every point of view, and decide
whether the corsage and the train eaualetl
or surpassed the bodice ard petticoat seen
rom the front. Even the plebeian element
In the audience is pleased and melted To
emulation by the spectacle of these daz-
zilnS and strictly up to date costumes. and
when the dresses are associated with the
names OF justly favorite actresses a stamn
OF approval is at once given to the dres,-
making establishment, to which cupnip,
paragraphs in the newspapers never fail ~
draw attention
nevertheless it must be well understood
that the mere putting Of a dressmaker,,
business by supply tasteful costumes to Ia.
dies and actresses, who wear them on the
understanding that they are not to nav for
them IS not, in Paris, at least, the sole
method by which widely spread fashiona.
Bile acceptance can be obtained by the. art
Sss IN costume The "mannequin' or
BLOCK system is very old one in a modish
sense ana has been applied in bygone times
10 candies as well as bellies. Beau Brum-
nell was never called upon, so the scandal
mongers of three generations since used to
whisper. to pay for a coat, or a hat or n
pair of boots. He had but to name his Tail
or, his batter or his bootmaker in ordinary
and the grateful tradesnan, to whose shon
crowds OF would be beaus had resorred was
not only too glad to let his ..manneon;n,
have his equipments for nothing. but wonld
also occasionally present him with a check
for good round sum
AS matter Of fact however. when tina
poor beau collapsed financially and had Ia
take refuge at Calais, it was found that
among the creditors who had huntet, him
out OF England were whole brigades q,
taIlors ana other tradespeople Precisely !
the same ca!umny, Of having acted az a !
eailoFs block, used to be circulated and !
probably with about the same infusion of I
truth in it, concerning Count Alfred d'Or. |
say, who between 1880 and 1910 was unda- |
nlably the leader of London fashions for
gentlemen, as the great Stultz and the |
greater Sugee were the acknowledged mon
archs Of the kingdom of tailory.
AS respects the launching OF fashions for
ladies' 1t Is not improbable that well known
names, whether they be aristocrasic, opera.
nc or dramatic, render very signal service
n enabling successive types Of the good
mp fashionable Frivolity"-to walk the
"aters IKE SC many things Of life, but be.
ore fashion can be launched il rnnst he
putt, and before it is constructed il must
'e devised, and il not absolutely invented
must be skillfully adapted from soma
'ysone mode.-Locdon Telegraph