New-York tribune., 1902-08-23
i UERICAN STYLES ABROAD.
PRESIDENT OF DRESSMAKERS' PRO-
TECTIVE ASSOCIATION TALKS OF
FUTURE PLANS OF THE
SOCIETY

Europe Is full Of American goods You buy
American goods over an American counter, OF
an American showcase. and set your change out Of
an American cash register. Why not gowns,
tben? said Miss Elizabeth White president Of the
rressrnakers' Protective Association, yesterday 10
Z Tribune reporter.
As matter Of fact, you can she continued.
BftiaE a strenuous foref1nger TO emphasize her
words. = an just back from the other side, and
.ix times while I was in Paris. when admired
something particularly. they told me that was
American style They take our fashion publica-
tjons there. and they are just as crazy for any
hing American OUT women are for anything
European. What Didn't they take the short
walking skirt from Us? Didn't they take The
Bounce bu11oned on the bottom OF the skirt? They
are a5o7rfrE and adapting specific ideas Of ours
ali The time and then they get the credit OF them
But there is something beyond and q great deal
bigger than thai. I don't know that can make
ron understand il but the whole system OF dress
making as practised by the great modistes OF
Paris The men and women Of world wide fame, is
American Il has been formed and built up on the
taste % American women American women sup
por1 those people. They work almost entirely Tor
American women Well naturally they cater 10
them II I have Z customer from some distant
-i+v know very well she is going TO want some
thing different from Fifth-ave- customer ano
soune one from little town would want something
different still. and a woman from CUBA would
want still 2 different style Well when the
American woman visits the Paris coutour1eres. Il
thev bring out gowns made for French women
she sits u-rnoved- She doesn't like them; they
jon't suit her style; she won't BUY ihef1 lhey
s-4-g or4 something built in New-York style, ana
she is interested Immediately She likes H. auu
, r,,ve Il is in this way that the Paris faiseur
tax learned TO cater 70 the American trade Apd
The woman comes hone with 2 trunk full Of Paris
Gowns which are nothing but New-Horh gowns
with the Paris stamp put on them It is the New
York cut II and style which the Partisan has
-fz
fortune Out Of
..,lov. why. / should Ike 70 know" said Miss
White n 2 tone which seemed TO imply that no
-essons bic 9e-son could answer her. why should
ne not have al this credit and this vogue our
eelves9 L American women Of fashion feel that
they must buy their gowns on the other sice- Why
we VIII make them FOR her over there Ihere are
large colonies Of American women IN every Eur
pean city who VIII be mighty glad can zen -
N have first class American dressraaker II to'l-
There * sn American dentist in every big city II
Europe now, and Americans in Europe won
have arv one else touch their teeth because II Il
well known that American dental Work leaos 1il7
,-o-75 = Kill re the same with our American
d-essrnzkers in Europe. Then we VIII striAe olI @
for TIE native trade And. on. assure Sou
ri Get = Americans themselves have no loea ol
--a ,-og-1e of everything American N UI01''
s-s-.oz- erv7es American goods. American manu-
fsc+rres have the same touch O. cnlc o'e
that attaches here 70 imported gooos- 49,.
-. To,---r her recent run 10 the other sue
s,,a 1oo-,.5 over the ground in Paris bernn 1--1
Vienna and rented location in each o. - -
c;-ies The matter VIII be thoroughIS 80
AZ the coming convention o. the assoel1'
s.o--7v hereafter i first class NeT-HoTk oIeSs
.1 ,-ll - sent 20 each place with e h.lee9 D. -
mr. - -5raer her. The Dressrnakers - -
t-s t"es ks9cfs+ior viii pay all the expenses 81
slIrrorr Until L self-suppor'lIls ,., barfrye
finds 70 90 This and i has the falth 70 80
4f7z- "a
great source Of income 70 Arlerlcsn Arle.,115s
tar-h- ard trained in American nlellg-9. said
u ten YOU we're going 10 he P3wE.. PyT-b,. ioolt
Miss Whte- With deep o9nxIs.-e les ago With FIVE
members aII Nerv-Yorlz women to-1ay 5gys Lit,yr
2oTafsq WIN IN, ne groNtb5 But what are fifteen
thousand az-t OF TWO hundred thousand? -ner
ia and +rev 60 business Of millions o. qo,ieI
year. We want them al N ;,-oa5e III give US
tie r bssf 81" -a4es The stores cater TO US ~
Miss White has hitched her wagon WaeiI.5 - o TToiect
this thing In tact. she has concelEed d lo+J,f,7g
fairy Napoleonic or Morganeseue II $50 Is foI5
Paris to NewYork As Napoleon III made Paris PaTs
the pleasure ground Of the Word, So SO 5isnenser
intends 70 make Sew eV9,,a,3. oFA 'i'e aus
Every one familiar win the ON other I'D and
that France is not advanciIc She saii; Ling
country cannot stand stu II II Is no, 80 over
fbera an .bsir ideas are merely Eevivals. II is
a Ponraso7Ir revival Louis Seize revival 1I
IF tf,e 5ress-oaLere' trade. And why should not
American inventive genius take Ite le'.o a. el T.
are organized. trained and taught 10 IeaifGo T
their own worth. They toe humble now On
ny word ! have seen a dresSmakSr from a couIl
Try CITY who was carrying out her own IDEAS an
the tine IL a way that would be credltape aioiis %
side OF big Paris houses and she olo hob e'e-i
presume 10 call herself designer -
Every apprentice here comes up IN an a'ilGs
phere 0f freedom. She knows that every ldea
she has viii welcome that success IN ouSi.S .,s
there Is nothing and nobody to hold her back
But the French comes up urlHer a ci9.L a..
OF social prejudice that checks her lnolNiouallIs
and hampers her development II IS neczssA.
for her 70 married; Il IS necessary TOT het 70
nave man IN business with her; IL is necessary
for her defer mems opinions anc fnSn ,
fTetudices every turn Of the road CIlglhsaii'S
One point of superiority. and one aiolle' s.o-
NIT in European dressrnakers said MISS W hlte;
and that IS their color com hinations- But we
steal those from them '-Cnbushingly- : hey We
stolen our cut and fit and steal their color
methods