Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-22
THE KINGS OF FASHION
interesting Gossip About the
Designers of Gowns.
OLD ARBITERS OF TASTE
Army Of Help Employed in Great
Workshops.
GIRLS AMBITION WORTH MODEL
Probing for Real Reason of Wine
growers Crisis in South
France.
OLD ARBITERS OF TASTE
GIRLS AMBITION WORTH MODEL
Special Correspondence Of The Star,


PARIS, June 1c.-Anything which co,-
Germs the kings of fashion interests the
| Partisan public, and one might almost saw
| the entire world. II the world is not gov
! erhed by the Rue de la Paix, II is at least
| Ieu by IT, The Paquins, the Worths the
| Doucets the Beers the Grunwaldts the
| Da'lds' the Laferrieres and Redferns die
| tate to the ladies, and the latter of course
are not without their influence upon tba
| world Paris has had many kings OF FASH
ION ana arbiters of taste. from Pingat. who
| imposed MS nantes; Worth, who abolished
.he crinoiine, and Nine. Roger, who held
| her ground against all rivals in the davs
! OF the third empire and finally vanouished
/ lhe MASON Aurelly, which had till then
| been supreme.
| Among the most formidable rivals Of
Paqu n are the sons and the grandsons
! OF the famous old Worth. NJ Beer who
sun stubbornly holds out in the southern
right~hand corner of the Place Vendome
! against Messrs. Bechoff and David who
! have established their stronghold in the
northern left-hand corner OF the same
| square; Doeuiet and Cheruit who oro o.,
trehched in the remaining available spaca
! round Napoleon's brass column and hnalIy
| Nj. Doucet, the patriach among the hie6
priests OF the temple Of fashion who has
grown gray In the handling of chiffons
NJ. Doucet is as discreet as the third Ma
| poleon and has been as successful 90 a.
awaiting mere ST,, IS, OF course no st, Helena
dying day remain in posss ssion OF his ma
i've haunt at the top OF the Rue de la
"a TAX: ne refuses. moreover, to be made
| the subject of publicity outside the circle
OF MS falr clients, and when asked about
! the history or his house, put It all in ons
sentence, Say that it was founded in 1915
| ana that II Is standing still"
The First to Achieve Fame.
The sons and the grandsons of the caIe-
| DRAFTED old Worth. who was the first, in
| lact' TO achieve fame the world over in HIS
| specially, are more communicative. thourb
| they also object to too much publicitv
The Worths never advertise, and never sell
their models or designs They are in this
| respect the most conservative of the
french coStumerS. The house Is nevertbe-
| less prosperous, so much So that they. like
| Pa1uln, feel the need of more room They
| are seriously considering a plan lust now
| Tor adding three more stories to the build
| ing they now occupy at and Rue de la
| father established themselves Just forty
| eight years ago. They would like very
much to move into the Champs Elysees
Quarter, but how they are going to induce
| their supply agents and merchants of silk
| to follow them without advertising is a
| question They really depend upon hun
| dreds of providers of this description who
| are centered round the Rue de- la Paix
The Worth establishment, as is well
| known, has been inherited by Messrs
| Philip and CASTOR Worth, the sons of the
| famous couturier with whom the grand
| sons, NJ John and NJ. Jacques, the sons
OF Mr. CASTOR Worth, are also associated
| Mr.. Charles F. Worth by the way was the
| son of a solicitor. He came to Paris with
| out penny in mis- pocket, and had had
merely small experience in a London
| diapers shop to rely upon. Yet, strangely
| enough, this Englishman came in a very
short time to be the dictator of fashion
not only in Paris, but the world over He
1nI = ,-nly lit,
| age, in 1895, and his sons and grandsons
| have maintained the credit of the house
To this day it is difficult for all rivals to
| match them. much less Gust them from the
! vantage which they possess.
They employ any number of premieres,
I that is, bodice filters, skirt filters wrap
| makers. tailors, lingerie ladies, and a host
| of needleworkers. Their object is not so
| much to supply a great number as a dis
| tingushed set OF customers and in this
, they have certainly succeeded. visit to
| their fitting rooms reminds one of some of
Jean Berauds famous pictures. for not
only have they a wonderfully distinguished
clientele, but their models look down upon
| all other models. To be a model at Worth's
| is the acme of young and pretty girls
ambition. Indeed. one sees them walk
| queen" bedecked with real gold and jew
| els, and imagining themselves duchesses
and countesses for the moment.
An Elopement Sensation.
Tongues are wagging fast in pic
] turesque little suburban hamlet on the
| banks of the Seine over the elopement OF
| a millionaires daughter with a plumbers
/ son. A few days ago the young lady, who
| is twenty-one, came, to Paris accompanied
| by her ctraperon. In the evening the
J chaperon returned alone to the villa IN the
| suburbs. The young lady had suddenly
| vanished out of sight in a crowd, ana the
| chaperon could not give the slightest indi-
| cation to what had become OF her. The
| father at once concluded what had hap
pened, and letters he has since received
nave confirmed his suspicion. His daugh-
| ter had cloped. She not of par
| ticularly romantic disposition, but the
| rather solitary life she led with her father
| may have pailed on her. Her father owns
Beautiful chateau not very TAR from Paris,
| but lives little IN II anu prefers his villa
| in the suburbs. Some little time ago the
water pipes We're out OF order and the
plumber was called 1t SO happened that
| the plumber sent MS son, a tall, nne-looking
fellow about tie age of the girl The mil
| ionaire's daughter saw him, watched him
| do his work as a pastime, and fell in love
with him. For some weeks after that
| something was going wrong every uay
| with the gas pipes, water conduts or cleo
| trio fittings and the young plumber APP
| parently did his level lest 10 remeuy
ubiquitous leaks and bad breaks
AT last suspicion dawned on the million
aires mind, and lie forbade the young
plumber all access u the house. 7 he water
pipes were at once On their good behav.
! again. But not so the young people. They
found means of communicating with ca, h
other and arranging their night The
millionaires daughter took very little " tn
| her on life's voyage-a few Jewels and Il
small amount Of cash given her by her
| father. This circumstance gives the latter
faint hope that she may soon be COM
PEELED to return him for supplies when
! he is positively determined refuse
| long as present relations continue. The DIS
| tracted father has even been visiting
his notary in the little suburban hamlet,
and the neighbors il speaking for him said
! that he is going TO disinherit his daughter
and do other terrible things calculated TO
spoil the romance
Swndlers appear TO he finding the old
| time me- hods the Ge2t. smart gentleman
calling himself the Baron Fly put this add
! vertisement into great many papers:
Highly connected gent, thirty six, $500
| a yer, would marry lady from thirty TO
| forty having sentiment and 500 annual IA
come" Ladies having the requisite senti-
ment and COmrc;en"y were drawn by the
advertisement like f'cs to the candle
\ woman in the best society, il realty
the barons mistress introduced the butter
flies to Fly, one after another, separately,
| of course, and successive engagements fol-
l2wed. During the betrothal sudden fGan-
ciaI diSa invariably