Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-03-28

omar the head OF the famous Klein
establishment OF the Rue Royale.
dai Klein is young. round. rosy.
very pretty-and stylish beyond words.
She probably changes her frock sew
EN- times a day. Indeed. l sometimes
think that the true object OF the great
establishment il to supply madame
with new things. But 1t Is not-it makes
styles.
Who makes the styles" repeated
madame. why. l answer % the
streets of Paris. Everyone and no one.
The styles are an inspiration. an I'M
conscious collaboration. One OF my lit
tie work girls came in this morning
wearing II very small hat almost hidden
under an enormous Scotch plaid ribbon.
1t was original and delightful"
Paris sewing girls originate the
styles"
I'm Berlin. monsieur. you find the
trottin very clean and neat. In Paris
she is dirty. out her hair is beautifully
done. We have girls who make them
selves Louis Nv. and Louis XVI. Golf
fures. They fix up for themselves cos
tunes out of chiffons and remnants. 1t
Ia a mistake to watch them %stro!ling in
h Rue Royale at the lunch hour-as
tourist gentlemen SO often do. Nor are
they at their best at the sortie In the
evening-when they are tired and de-
pressed. You must see them arriving
in the morning! They come In delicious
little blouses-of their fancy. Their
skirt hangs perfectly. Their hair is ii
poem. Their hats make styles"
You are making up your models now
for autumn n winter. madame" l
said. II cannot imagine how Il trottin's
summer blouse. however temptingly
adorned in front with originally tinted
ribbons. is to help you out"
They give ideas-I don say more.
We take an idea and by working it up
make IT ours. of curse. A sleeve in
SEPARATION is a sleeve inspiration. no
matter In what material. When an
idea is directly traceable to one of he
girls. we pay her for it,. Often girls
come to us from the outside with a
sleeve idea or a collar idea to sell us:
and l nave no doubt that our own girls
at times go peddling their ideas to
other houses"
Perhaps they peddle your ideas as
weu2"
1t is a thing that cannot be helped.
Que ~voulez-vous? What will you? -
laughed madame: 'such leaks help to
fix style. doubtless"
There is one thing l ould never
understand" i said. You are making
up your autumn models-in secrecy,
naturally. h other establishments of
the Rue Royalc and the Rue de la Paix
are doing the same Suppose YOU in
novate long sleeves and the other
houses stick to short ~leeves? Who
has to change and follow the othero"
There must be some secret here. for
madame did not answer the question
directly.
We make up fifty models she
said. yet perhaps only ten OF them
will take There comes to be a run
on them. And their essential ideas
not mere details-come to be used over
N nvyAy ,rat,
into the world ~continually-to the
races, the theaters and SO on. Our cut
tiers do the same. We get inspirations
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES you must not
think that we depend upon our sew
ing girls for styles. I only mentioned
them to illustrate an idea. Thus the
true mode changes slowly--in a Par
isian revolution. Should you lock a
dozen Of US up in separate rooms, we
would all. probably, produce very much
same styles for autumn!"
Madame. you say We As styles
cannot be kept secret long. what is
there to prevent the sensationally
turning out pretty much the same
thing as o others OF the Rue Roy
ale?"
They do, they do" laughed mad
anne. They send their wives and
daughters and their cousins and their
auH.s 10 puy mooelS from US. Then
they copy them"
A low as s2O!" / said.
The material in them never costs
40 cents a yard. food English cloth
for tailor-made gowns must cost $40
per yard. and oftenest costs "A great
deal more. AS to their lining. you may
say II is nothing. As to fiji. the least
said the better. They travesty our
model. But. as they exact from one
third to one-half OF the price i'm adj
vance, the customer is helpless. Tenez.
i will tell o how / recently made a
nice girl a present without it costing
me anything but an amusing quarter
of ans1lcur.
Al ] passed in front Of one of those
concerns" said madame. Il was struck
dumb by the sight of an autumn coat
OF most stylish idea and cut-and made
of magnificent English material. We
OF the meter. monsieur, cannot be de-
celved. That coat mad cost. to make.
every bit of $50-and there it was
marked retail their SIS model"
And you made IL a present."
Il did. l did" chirped madame. THAT
very evening 1 said to this nice girl,
VINO is u governess and not rich. Go
TO mai establishment and buy that
coat! She understood. monsieur.
Here is $15 for that coat she said
to the salesman.
Certainly. m~ademoiselle. ! will take
your measure. The coat will be ready
for the try-on next Tuesday
But. no. she said. 4 want that coat
itself
"Of course. they would not let her
have il. 1t was a model discolored by
the sun. it would not tit her, she ought
not to want ii. When she insisted
they grew ~angry-and finally refused To
take her order.
".All right she said at last. III nov
give you five minutes, just. to hand
me down that coat in return for my
Sl5. Otherwise ] shall return with /;
policeman and charge you with expos
ing goods with marked prices and re
fusing to sell them
That was the end of the con,ro-
versy. said Madame Klein. They
gave her the coat for S15-French law
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