The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-01

late suppers and all sorts Of entertainments
and she may accept them But what then!
Do not young women employed in other
kinds Of business do the same thingt
Now. in engaging my models give
I preference to those who live with their
parents but every one is not 50 particular
and 20 long as young woman can give
references az to her responsibility when she
il engaged no employer can stlpulate how
many times she shall go to supper during
the week
-Hoe. do YOU get modes?' n man who
employs at least u dozen was asked. DO
they have TO be trained TO the work.
NO we neither train them nor make them
up. he answered we advertise for
models and after measuring the applicants,
and finding out whether they can stand
properly and walk across room gracefully
Ne pick out the most desirable and give
them n trial If a girl Is awkward in man
ner and gait she won't suit US at all and we
discharge her az the end OF week Even
the best Of them take nearly year TO lose
all stiffness Of manner.
Manufacturers models must PROVIDE
their own corsets and have perfectly
natural figure no makeup anywhere
1t H. seldom we engage young girls. They
are too coltish not filed out enough
From q up TO 20 is the preferred age.
Just a. soon a. one exceeds the supula ted
measurements Of course she loses her job.
In my experience though. my chief
trouble has been 70 keep good models not
I TO get rid Of them, for the reason that they
will get married When they don't marry
the average length of service OF model Is
about six or eight years by which time
they get pretty heshy on account OF too
good living oftentmes.
One Of the models in a big manufacturing
concern in the heart Of the city tells dii-
{ ferent story from this, however. In her
I opinion there Is no manufacturers model
OF her acquaintance, and she knows good
! many, who has the ghost OF chance to get
[ fat no matter what she eats or drinks, on
! account of the hard work she does, and
/ pretty much the same thing II true she says
1 of the exhibition models who work IN the
| retail houses showing OF garments In the
ready made and custom order depart
ments.
about models" this young woman e1-
| claimed Indignantly when the subject was
| brought 10 her attention, ~and the public
believes them, l suppose, because 1t wants
| to.
Like the stage chorus girls we get the
credit Of being Toasted and 7ined at the
! best restaurants every night, when in
reality some Of us who are helping to sup
port families think We are lucky 70 get
| a good dinner OF corned beei ana CABBAGE
! every once in while.
"Me are also believed to be wiling to
accept attentions from every Tom. Dick
/ and Harry we meet IN business way
/ and such men are popularity supposed to
/ be eager and anxious to spend money
! on us. Well, | Tor one haven't found
/ it 20.
What | know about the habits Of manu-
| facturers' models happens 10 be quite
| different. and | have met dozens OF them.
/ For one thing, in the busy season most OF
Us work so hard that when night comes
! we are glad TO go home and 90 straight TO
] bed after dinner without thinking oil the
/ theatre or late supper7 or entertaining a
man we maybe never saw before and don't
cara If we never see gain,
Perhaps some people don't know that
| besides furnishing correct measurements
| for the garments which are made up in the
| factory a manufacturer model must be
! ready at any time 10 try on the stock for the
| benefit Of the wholesale customers, VINO
| some DAYS arrive in punches, ! have
1 never used a pedometer, but ] am sure
/ that many a day ! walk ten or fifteen miles
4 in displaying costumes, besides dong
! lot Of talking in calling attention to TINS
! and that good point in them for am one
/ OK the high priced models, which means
/ that ] am paid $40 week
! Il have worked here five years, and !
/ can often make suggestions TO improve
certain designs and can heip ana am
| expected to help in selling the cloaks and
gowns. Beginners get only about $40 or
sI2 a week, a1I very few models get over
SIS at the most.
in summer the work Is more e1hausting
{ than it is now, for the reason that we have
cloaks. sometimes trimmed with fur, and
winter gowns Of velvet and cloth. whereas
, IN january and February we are dressed
up In summer silks and organizes In
( busy seasons my greatest worry u about
getting thin, not getting fat, and were IL
not that | have a chance to catch up in
the duh times in between would soon lose
ny job.
Il am one Of the fnrtunntes who are
kept all the year round but there are dozens
i IF medals "A This nigglnps4 ThO have work
7 only about eight OF nine months IN the
/ year, because they are laid OF in the slack
season.
some Of the exhibition models in the
7 retail stores work awfully hard too, and
for $40 or sl2 n week. but then they generally
have work the year round. and the firm
( gives them a first class corset to wear,
which they couldn't afford to buy for them
) selves. OF course that piece Of s nerosity
l. due think to the fact that the models
in those places are not always up TO tho
standard mea urements and must be helped
by an exceptionally good corset and some
padding Il does not make so much differ
ence about having perfectly natural
/ figure merely % show OF n garment TO retail
/ buyers. who are bound anyway 10 try the
thing on themselves If they fancy the style
and material
Il have a cousin " no works in a big Sixth
avenue store a. model the year round, doing
! almost nothing but trying on manufacturers
samples up IN a room which IS get apart
/ for the use Of statesmen who bring their
goods TO the firms buyers, instead of
making tho buyers 60 TO them. At such
times these buyers. and generally several
/ heads Of departments and maybe super
intenGeut and one of the firm, will all sit IN
judgment while the model parades back
and forth before them.
Yes she has a perfect 80 hgure and
carries herself with such lot Of style that
every one remarks her. and yet she gets
only SIS week and has no chance to worry
about getting fat, either. Last summer
when she was trying on fur cloaks and
jackets Of al sorts for days at time she
los, ten pounds IN three weeks and had to
take TO drinking milk 10 make Il up again.
Models in the custom order department
of the big retail dry goods stores have
about the easiest job Of the lot, although
they don't get the biggest pay mover more,
think. than ST. a week-and they are gen
orally girls who have been trained in the
! store as cash girls then As stock girls
and have gotten accustomed to meeting
/ first class customers.
In their case they are rugged out in an
eighteen dollar corset and princess gown
Of black bhliantne which fits as If they
Sere poured into it, and has no trimmings
! whatever. That l. their store dress, which
Is put on when they come in the morning
aud taken OF when they leave at night
II they are too thin in the hips or bust pad
/ ding Is uscd."
why is it II 60 j.. the average size that