Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-10-18

na, France.-Tbe United states
.ia.,ry IS costing Paris millions OF
,U,rs The rigid customs exam'ha-
u I now exacted at New York ana
. ,bD.,rorts are preventing the intro
o'",/ . If Paris dresses, and the great
S,,ns here have had a large raining OH
'' ~. ,. ,,erican trade, As 1t Is now
ln '", IAN can take more than 500
10 ~, clothes into the United states
WIZ" ,,,,re duty. Everything Is
"', the passengers are made to
So lust what they have and there
1'',a' rosslbla way Of smuggling In
without lying -oo ~. oyor
IL ~, lress made by the best Paris
"ooeI w. apd silks and fancy gowns
ul,s ni grom 500 upward Much lower
Iu"7' . tban these are pV on me ollls
p" ant nv the dressmasers IN order
sa, NOV be shown TO the customs ON.
u"' nd less duty be- paid. such fraud
"a oflen detected, and even Wheh not
The extra cost IS enormous. ,. %
II used TO be that multitude Oh
American women came regularly W
parie 10 repenish their Wardropes'
rach would bay $1,000 or more oil nat,
and nd gowns. and the richer among mem
norId NO back with eight or ten trunks
SVoG vim dresses. Many of thom
NM moi even wear the dresses before
y TJT and would pass them IN as
,sa,r personal baggage. Others would
Wv, an half dozen different dresses
one day. wearing each dress a f."
,n,rutes IN order to say that the dress
:. bad already been worn. Others
ssved old Innings into the gowns and
m so,ts of schemes were used to make
Me new things look old -,
The customs officers were lenient ana
ouowad such goods 10 pass through
Nsv York dressmakers came here and
swnogled back dresses to their Gus.
,o rrs and the Paris dressmakers took
orders for future delivery ana sent
Them home by American friends II Is
estimated that about 10000 American
women took home dresses in this way,
and today Of the many thousands who
mas through Paris, II Is seldom that
ono leaves without new gown and
ba, The Wholesale business has how
sys- been stopped by the customs OFF,
c,r and the result IL a wonderful
falling of In the Paris dressmakers
trade
PARIS DRESsMAKERs WHO LIVE
ON AMERICANS,
Indeed many Of these Paris dress
makers 1--we on the business they do
Tor foreigners. Some of them nave
American custom which Is worth hun
dreis Of thousands Of dollars year
am told that the big department
stores sell millions of dollars worth OF
rood, 10 American tourists every sea-
son. and that the fashionable millinery
Establishments depend much on their
Gales 10 American women.
Paris sets the fashion for the world,
and all Of our big department stores
send their buyers here for fashionable
costumes. They buy only dress or so
n a kind TO show these in their win
d0ws and take orders for copies. Such
dresses are called models. and making
them Is a regular business. There Is n
large class Of women here who do
nothing else but design new gowns.
They live in the little dark side streets
Of Paris working away, out OF sight.
They VIII make n complete costume
for IN francs sl4O) and upwards, and II
Is such costumes that are bought by
The American dealers. Sometimes a
design IL shown In miniature. n doll
being dressed up to explain the COM
pe,ed product but In general the cos
tlmts aye Of fun size. so that they can
be sold outright when desired. I am
lod that some Of our importers bring
IN hundreds Of such designs every year,
THE SEWING GIRL OF PARIS.
Few people have any idea OF the
enormous amount Of work done In Par
Is The city is looked upon as the CEN
yer Of gayety and fashion not only fol
france, but for the world; and II Is
common saying that all the wor d
comes 10 Paris to shop, The American
TOURISTS sees a crowd OF loafers. old
ana young, strutting up and down the
souevards and the fashionable, we'll
dressed throngs Of ladies' and gentle
.en driving on the Champs Elvsacs
ana N The Bots de Boulogne and thinks
'nal thls Is Paris The real Pals is a