The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-15
Woman sWorId'
ADS FOR HIS GOWNS
Paris Dressmaker Hires Two Swell
Girls to Travel in Europe and
= Wear His Creations. ~.
They Visit Fashionable Resorts and
Let It Be Known Who Made
Their Gowns.
New York Sun.


which Paris dressmakers will supply
actresses with dresses in order to bring
themselves before the public. But the
most expensive advertising OF this kind
ever heard of was recently described by
woman who returned a short time ago
from Paris.
In a trip that took us through most Of
Europe she said. I'VE went to all of the
smart watering places. We reached Mon
te Carlo in March and there. just after our
arrival in Europe. our story begins.
In the hotel there were two remarka-
bly, smart looking girls. They were quite
different in style. One was tall and dark,
and the other short and blonde.
But they were alike in one respect
Both were always beautifully dressed. In
the morning at luncheon. in the afternoon
while walking or at dinner, they were
both most charmingly goWned.
Their conduct was above reproach, and
they were in every respect most clrcum-
spect. At night they We're always &C
companied by a maid.
MANY of the English and American
women in the hotel spoke to them. They
were always very polite, and as they We're
both able to speak English they made a
large circle of acquaintance and did not
seem in the least opposed to making as
many friends as possible.
THE next time we saw the two was at
Ostend. They were just as beautifully
dressed as ever ana nad apparently as
many clothes
''As at Monte Carlo, it was said that
they were two cousins who travelled to-
gether because both were orphans and
very rich. Afterward we met them at,
Carlsbad, at Ischl, at Homburg and at
AK
When we saw them at the hotel in
London just before we sailed, I de-
termined to find out something more
about them. I especially regretted not
having spoken to them before, as I might
then have known where to go in Paris to
get some decent clothes instead of get
ing the wretched botches that were given
to me by the dressmakers there.
Il was just the point of speaking to
one of them when met old Mrs. x, who
has dragged over Europe from one end to
the other for the past twenty years and
knows not only every scandal in royalty
but every scandal in every American
colony from Paris to London. I asked her
who those two we'll behaved girls were
who were always so beautifully dressed.
- Models my DEAR she said. Not the
kind that undress. but the kind that dress
Those two girls are employed by z. ct Gle.
in the Rue De La Paix to travel around
from one country to another. They are
hired for just the purpose Of making
women ask where their clothes come from.
/ met them first four years ago at Cairo
as well as they are now
LAS I wanted to know where their
clothes came from and didn't care
whether they knew it or not, asked one
Of them the next time we met in the
office Of the hotel. She answered me so
simply and seemed to make SO little pre-
tense about her business that + told her
what had heard and asked her if it was
true.
"She said it was true and gave me a
letter of Introduction to the firm that en-
gagged her, and a special card to the cut
ter. Then she told me all about her curl
Gus business.
=" 1T is not nearly SO easy as it seems.
she said. In the first place the mere
labor Of dressing keeps us busy.
Our maid is paid by the same firm
that employs us and it is as much a part
Of her business to show our clothes to the
other maids and talk about them to the
| chambermaid as it is to help us to put
| on and take off all these clothes.
we dress as many times a day as
possible without betraying what our oc-
cupation is. In addition to being con.
stantly on parade. we must be careful
| about our acquaintance.
" 1t would never do, for instance, for u!
to be seen speaking to a woman who wa:
not just what she ought to be. For othe
women would then refuse to speak to us
| and we would never be able to advertise
| the man who hires us.
! Nor do we ever meet men unless thei
| wives or sisters have presented us. W.
| could not antagonize the women we ex
pect to make clients of by seeming to b.
interested in any male members of thei
families.
| I'VE are naturally able to do the hes
business at the spas like Homburg an,
AK. where there is lots of dressing an
the women think mostly Of that and othe
pleasures.
L" I take my vacation in November, an
YOU have no idea. what a pleasure it is t
sit in dressing sack and not have t
think of doing my duty to my employer
by changing my clothes constantly. Tha
is about all we have to think about durn
the rest of the year.
" All of the first part of December w
spend in the atelier while the filters pre-
pare our outfit for the season on the Riv
iera. We go to- all the places there, t
Pau and to Biarritz.
BY the end of the season it is time
go back to Paris to get dresses for tn
London season and then for the regula
journeys . - :.
I" Il shall continue this work for one yea
j. more and then go back to the shop, wher
I shall receive custimors. That is wha
I my work used to be.
81 should have stopped this winter if
had been possible to get anybody to e
with Marie. She must have a person lik
myself who is thin and a brunette. ST.
is short, fair and inclined to be stout an
it is necessary for us to be contrasts
order that we may appeal to the tastes
all kinds Of women,
"'You may think that this kind of lii
is not hard But try it for a few veal
and see'
A. CHRISTMAS IDYL.