Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-20
WOMEN BUYERS ARRIVE
Ruses Employed by Milliners
Visiting the Metropolis.
FINE STEAM YACHTS
ACME OF LUXURY ENJOYED By
NEW YORK MONEY KINGS.
Change at Women's Hotel-An Enter
ing Wedge-Coats Of Arms
Tattood on Dogs.
FINE STEAM YACHTS
Al Corresnondence a, The Evening Star

Tattood on Dogs
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, June 10. 1905.
The advance guard Of women buyers Is
| here. They will be swarming over New
York until about the middle OF August
| when. Of a sudden. they will vanish like
| spindrift. Fifteen thousand OF them en-
| nvened the town. and themselves. last
| year. They all knew their New York from
stem to stern and from gangway to gang
way when they got through with 1t. An
inquisitive. acquisitive. penetrative and
acute parcel of women. the women buyers.
and how nobly self-reliant and Independent.
withali You may know them. in the hours
Of daylight. by their tidy short walking
skirts. spick-and-span shirt waists and
rakish outing hats. After dark. in hotel
dining room, smoke-wreathed table d'hote.
theater or wheFesoever. you distinguish
them by the sumptuosity Of their raiment.
They are gorgeous at the dinner hour and
afterward. 1t is point Of principle with
them not to permit the splendiferous wo-
men of mere wealth to outshine them in the
peacock alleys and palm rooms of the hotels
that are cities in themselves
Stunningly Gowned.
''Who is that stunning woman in the
green foulard en- train and the distinguish
ed manner. there in the music roOm?' you
ask the hotel manager.
Mrs. Barterino. buyer from Indianapo-
lis-regal. Ell. SOM" says the hotel manager,
nudging you in his sad dog style.
And that dashing Diana in the embroid-
cred white null. with the diamond orna-
ment in her hair. just entering the meg
| canine writing room? you inquire again.
Miss Pickandchoose. millinery buyer
from Omaha-and guess maybe that black
hair and those black eyes Of hers are not
just about right" replies the hotel man.
who is hopelessly frivolous, like many OF
his kind.
We'll" you say to the hotel man. mean
ing it. too. 1.-The women you have here now
of a truth know how to dress"
1T Is yes" he answers promptly. why
shouldn't they? Most Of 'em are out-of-
| town buyers"
for dinner says the everyday New Yorker,
with noble MISUNDERSTANDING just won
bit Of money on the horses-to his wife.
mot there" she replies. IL she Is know
ing. Those women buyers from the west
| are overrunning the place now. and how
can one compete with their glad rags?"
One wonders. therefore. If these women
buyers array themselves thus ornately at
their unoccupied time at home, together
with their entire surplusage in earnings,
in making ready for the annual summer
splurge in New York.
Care Free and Happy.
Anyway. the women buyers contribute to
the picturesqueness Of town at this season.
They teach even Independent and self-sus-
tanning New York women how to be I'M
shackled. They go everywhere, in pairs.
trios. Quartets. Quintets. punches. You are
as likely to find chattering and care-free
outfit OF them over In a little Avenue A
Hungarian table-dhot as in Martins or
Rectors. and at any hour. even well past
midnight, when dining or supping Is the
order OF business.
You will run into them in Chinatown.
gently stringing the hotel detective who
Is showing them around. You Will meet up
with slews and slathers of them, at any old
time. on Conveys mystic isle, racing with
each other on the wooden steeplechase
horses whisper: sometimes astrlde) or
looping the loop or cruising In that awful
contraption called the barrel Of love" or
even throwing the base balls at the live
coon's" countenance.
They seek and find. the women buyers,
and when they quit the town they do not
have to think regretful thoughts and say
unto each other. I'VE missed this or that,
or the other thing"
Full Of Business.
Their sightseeing IL OF necessity ac-
complished mostly after tho hour of twi-
light, for they are immoderately busy with
business during the day. Many OF them are
buyers only in name. Thousands Of them
make the pilgrimage to New York every
year Just to look"
The milliners. for instance. whose solitary
purpose. besides that of diverting them
selves, Is to look at the newly-arrived
Paris hats so as to be able to copy them
when they get back home. These looking
millinery women are cordially disliked by
<1n Nan Vol 1f,A~ f~o1 Ia n1A thnxr
have to frame up many schemes to success
fully accomplish their mission.
The New York milliners do not want
their Paris model hats copied, Of course
men to come or send to New York for their
millinery. And the visiting Out-of-town
milliner who comes to New York to rub
ber' at the new Paris things in headgear
has her work cut out for her.
They are spotted as soon as they enter
the importing emporfums-it Is even said
that several such establishments employ
private female detectives at this season TO
make the rounds of the hotels and famil-
iarize themselves with the visiting mil
liners faces-and when they are spotted 1t
is nary peek that they get at this Paris
hats. except those that are on display.
Schemes of Milliners
But they have ruses. too complicated to
be described In detail, for seeing all that
they want or need to see in their line Of
business. They have got to have we'll
trained memories for their sort of work.
They fix firmly in their minds the shapes
and trimmings OF two of three dozen hats
a day, and directly they return to their
hotels they set down in their note books
their memorized descriptions of those hats,
down to the tiniest and most inconsequen-
tial detail.
1t is the same with the vast numbers of
women dressmakers from all sections of
the country who come here to view the i'm
ported styles at the great importing houses.
They, too, have schemes whereby they
thwart the resentful purpose OF the import
ers to keep them from seeing the new Gre
ations The fashionable woman dress
maker from Minneapolis, for example. has
a Minneapolis chum. who is the New York
buyer for Minneapolis department store.
AS the dressmaker is a patron on a heavy
scale Of the Minneapolis establishment. 1t
Is to the buyers interest. aside from her
chumminess with the dressmaker. to be
nice to the latter. Well. the dressmaker
from Minneapolis makes her summer visit
to New York in company with the Minne-
apolis buyer. when the latter Is on gen.
uine buying mission in the metropolis.
The dressmaker accompanies the Mime
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