New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-12
ADVICE TO DRESSHAKERS.
HOW TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS AS TOLD BY
MISS WHITE.

MISS WHITE.
Miss White had heart to heart talk with her
dressmakers yesterday. in which she told them how
TO take advantage of what they had observed at
the Dressmakers' Conventions: she put them on"
as she called it
It's my place to give you the tips said she:
its your place make of them want you
all to get up high l want you all to be on top
because there's always up there, ana there's
nothing but hopeless struggle at the bottom
Don't be content with your three meals a DAY YOU
want little besides that. When you go home go
70 your merchant. Say to him. I'm gong 10 sell
these corsets for you; I'm going to sell goods FOR
you. If you'll do the right thing for me- have been
10 New-Iork / have been taking III everything
new. can sell your goods TO a woman when II she
went to your store she wouldn't take them because
she wouldn't know what she wanted; ana the sales
man wouldn't. either I'll be your salesWoman; but
you'll have to pay for it. III take my services
to some other man.
Then have an opening day" continued Miss
White Announce it in the papers that you Will
snow all the ideas you got in Newly OK. f1aVe
some skirts and waists and sleeves maze up Oh
crinoline in the best and newest models. ana show
them Put cOrsets and get the women interested
Don't lie down. Strike strike out, and LII war
rant you can go home and get So more dress
Then. again" said Miss White. we want more
congeniality among dressmakerS. linen we
shall have better and better pay If there are
one hundred doctors in place, ninety-hVe OF Iheih
Will be good friends. Why? A good part OF 'he
reason Is that they have had the same hlhu u ''
education and hold similar diplomas bach wee
president when she goes home should invite all the
dress1nakers to her house. show and explain TO
them all the new STYLES and ideas she has brought
pack, and invite them all into the association Don
be afraid the little Will take away your
custom. She won't do it. Don't be afraid OF the
medium woman. She can't hurt you. The big dress
makers all started small They ought to be a niue
bit broadminded"
But the big won't come into the assocla-
ton said voice in the audience.
Never you mind if they DON'T said the speaker
They'll come in when little older. and II
| they don't, You walk their heads New
York Is full Of business who have walked over
the heads of older men. Many time the ola fogleS
have TO take back seats for young fellows The
knows II all She doesn't notice things any more
She d@est progress try all the te 10 6afore
Whenever go to Paris try to feel as If 1t We're
! a novice Now. don't go home and say you haven't
| seen anything new in New ork. Learn now 10
see what there IS In model There ism "a S,iEle
Eo9d model that You can't get fifty gowns % out 2
L4he 'hat SoIauroy down there Win the pe' i me
dress. Finish of the waist and then cut out above
| chiffon or nothing at all. Leave off the peerine
| and put on lace there and bunch of grapes at
good skirt. made right. In comes stout woman
stead OF two. Then comes one who requires no
rippes at all Then you use II 10 make wedalh an
tern all the time, only you've learned how 10 vary
II little 20 get just what YOU want out or II each
time. Learn to what is in model. ana SCI II
all out. Use your brains; adapt, modify utilize
invent. That's what makes one dTessmaker an
artist and another a drudge
The question Of establishing q shop IN Paris was
brought formally before the convention. ana
voted appoint committee on foreign re
latons' of which Miss White should be chairman
and Mrs. ConE@r. the managers wife. ana MISS
Thatcher. OF Chattanooga, Tenn. the other mem
bers
They say over there said Miss white. referring
ohte Paris coutUrier.S, that the little American
girls cannot do the work the little French girls
can I admit they cannot do the same needIe"oTk
en- tho mothers nd the Erandmo hers of the little
French girls did 1t before them. and It's ngrained
In them But II isn't the neediework that counts
You cart take waist on the street 10
show how elegantly the inside Of II is finished II
the cur and s,yIe OF II that tell. It's the study
Of the woman's figure that makes the diHerehce
Who knows or cares whether The under side or, one
founca Is finished a little better than another!
It's the whole figure OF the woman they re look
ing at" -, -. .o d-.ss
makers OF anv interior disturbed the serenity
OF the frocks and frls yesterday. The quarTel OF
the dav before arose because one st LOUIS dress
maker said she never heard OF another -. LOUIS
dressTuaker widely heTalded as the N;e-pFesluehI
az the associat The Vice-presldent explained
Thar she had never assumed her married name.
recently acquired. In her business. although she
was using II I'm New-York. ,.,., :. .,oso
The convention is announced positively 70 close
This afternoon at the Masonic Temple. with an al
dress bv DR. Sophie 3. Scheel. member OF one
of the local school boards OF the city.