Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-13

fashions for the world and beautifully
dressed dolls had been sent by the Nene-
tIan women's tailors as models to Paris.
In the eighteenth century Paris sent dolls
to Venice These dolls were exhibited at
the fair of the Ascension, near the en-
trance to the Merceria. and took the
place of fashion plates and dressmakers
Journals.
instead of dolls, the great dressmaking
houses send their beautiful, living girl
mannequins travelling to the other capt.
tails and the fashionable resorts OF shore
carry trunks full of models" What
are those 'mcdeIs"? Real gowns, which
the girls try on before you, designed Tor
the coming season. What are the photo-
graphs they give with such eclat 10 the
newspapers? Gowns of the season that
is passing The eye recognizes tnem'
they seem all the more all right. and the
house is advertised without giving a word
of real information to the public.
This Is why the new Partisan dolls or
chic are n thorn in the flesh to the great
couturieres. Not being dressed in actual
garments-being merely tackled together.
as you shall learn in a swift impression
they can be issued. day by day, as snap
shot portraits of great ladies in the very
fashion of the moment.
Here is a new proposition: After the
old fashion dolls have gone out. been for
gotten and had time to be rediscovered by
collectors. here are modern dolls of the
old style, yet more exquisite: and. far
from being issued by them. they are the
great dressmakers' aversion. Collectors
revel in them. That is all right But
what about ladies who have them copied
by cheap drossmakers?
All Paris laughs. delighted. The real
fashiona bles see in the new dolls lovely
little ina ges of their life of the hour. of
the street. the theater, the parlor, the
boudoir. afternoon tea, the Bots and the
smart exhibitions. Great ladies are fiat
tered to pick up their own portraits In
their newest dinner gowns-and hold them
in their hands. as CULVER held the Queen
of Liliput,
1t is net like seeing your new gown
copied life size. The dear little dolls:
they are so cute, And for the rest of
wcmank'nd upon the edge Of fashion, fol-
lowing holly or afar off, to buy half a
dozen of the new dolls is like being
thrown into high society!
Now. the rich and modish young Amer
lean matron who gave little Helen Il. of
Kansas her first specimen is a collector
of the dolls. She has two little girls. who
share mammals delight in them. And.
all three being as deft and as dainty as
the dolls themselves, they get on per-
fectly together without rumpling or
mussing.
II don't buy the dolls for Maud and
Amy, she said. in reply to criticisms
I'VE buy them together. my two little
girls and I. We are collectors. We shall
so on buying. every season; and when
they grow IN my little girls Will not only
have highly valuable collection. but
will have absorbed the essence Of good
taste and a philosophy Of styles"
I went with the two future philosophers
and their ma to the Boyer place. 30
Avenue de rOpera, and there I made the
acquaintance Of that real artist, Nine.
Conte originator of the dolls.
How did the idea come to your /
asked.
From collectors OF old Venice fashion
dolls" she answered. They were mere
business assets that lost their current val
ne when they grew stale; yet modern col
lectors cherish them as beautiful. pathetic
little relics. Color-printing and the
crowding Of the rich In cities abolished
them. Dressmakers will never use doll
again; then why should 1 not
make them for collectors?'
Your moderns are far more beautiful
than the DID, 1 said
THE present styles are so original" she