The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-02-28
FEBRUARY %, 1907.
WOMEN DESIGNER
FOUR THOUSAND OF THh.i
EARNING GOOD LIVIEG5.
They Make Designs for Evcryt',in
From Silks 10 Houses-Do Well
Competition with Mcn-ESpeT--
ences of Some.

When woman founded Z >
School OF Applied Design for Woai.
In 1892, 1t was work Of faith -
her part, says the New YORK Tic
Ever since the world began TO t.
about women at all one thing L.
was always insisted on was that -
had not the inventive or cresu.
faculty.
To-day there are women rcgHlarly
employed to design silks, rugs <
other goods which are extensively
advertised as imported wares. Ths
goods are imported, for ther a
made in foreign countries, whc;
they can be made better and chealC-
than in America: but they are mae
from designs by New York women.
One graduate or the school works
for a Turkish firm I'm New Yer.
She is constantly designing pattern
and color schemes which are suite
to the New York market. These ara
sent TO the Orient and made up int
Turkish and other Eastern rugs.
The same is true of French an 1
japanese silks and various otbs
goods. The American designer may
not excel the foreign on :. put they
understand better what Americans
want
Four thousand former pupils ot
this school are now earning liyin
in designing. They are scattered all
over the country, but the majori;F
are in and around New York. Most
of them are employees of manufactuT-
ing firms at salaries ranging from
$40 to s25 a week, few receiving
less than SIS.
A firm which makes very fashion
able tailored garments sends out OIL
each one a label with a special de-
sign woven in. Two girls get SIS 4
week for designing these labels.
Everything connected with femin-
inc fashions offers an abundance or
we'll paid work. All fashion maya
zines employ designers for their
plates.
Designing for trade catalogues o.
fers an almost inexhaustible field.
Girls under twenty make $40 AMI
S25 a week at this An independent
worker makes a good income By de-
signs for shirt waist fronts. alloYcr
la~e and embroidered dress patterns.
The slowest of all Offices to open
to these women have those of tina
architects, for here they encounter
the only disability attendant upo
their sex. 1t is customary for thu
architect who desingns a building ID
superintend its erection, and this
is difficult for women. There are,
however. about fifty women mo
chanical draughtsmen in architect
offices in New York
One of them recently designed 4
court house for a Long Island town.
Her employer will superintend tbs
erection of the building. but the de-
sign was really accepted as she sui
mitted IL.
AS to the differences between tbs
work of men and women in this line
the management of the school has
noted only two. Women excel in col
or rather than drawing and are
more interested in beautiful colcr
schemes than in the line work
Women are inferior to men in free
hand printing, a qualification so de-
sirable that a woman possessing IL is
nearly always sure of employment.
As for pay, special orders given
out to independent workers have a
fixed price, whether a man or wom-
an executes them. Among regular
employees women generally receive
less than men. but not always.
Nearly all these women have some
one dependent upon them. Some are
supporting parents or invalid rela-
tiVes, some educating younger broth
ers or sisters. Many OF them were
poor girls who supported themselves
while taking their course.
Girls have fought their way
through the school by typewriting,
sewing, or keeping books at night to
get money to live on.