Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
PRICES STILL GO Up
Wide Dissatisfaction Among
Paris Housekeepers.
NOT ONLY FOOD AND RENT
Milliners and Others Have Also
Added to the Cost Of Things.
GIVES RULES TO KEEP YOUNG
Lima Cavalfere Says She Expects
Always to Retain Her Youth
and Beauty.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cabesram to The Star.
PARIS, November 6.-There. is wide
spread dissatisfaction among housewives
at the continued increase in the cost of
living. Every day one hears that some
thing else has gone up Yesterday it
was salads and haricots. today # is but
ter and milk. and tomorrow it will be
sugar and coffee. No wonder the braves
menageres' of France are at their wits
ends to know how to, make both ends
those with whom the struggle for life
is never-ceasing one-the rise in neces-
stiles means untold misery.
But the rise in prices is not confined to
food and rent. Those who are clothed in
purple and fine linen-the grand danes
whose elegance leads the world-are now
complaining that they can no longer
make their pin money do. Inquiries
among the branches Of commerce which
depend upon Ia toilette feminine show
that 1t Is the milliners who have raised
their prices most
1t is asserted that the price Of raw ma
terials has within the last two years In
creased by 10 per cent. Ostrich feathers
are now from 80 to 10 per cent higher
than they were. The result is that a hat
that in 1908 could be bought for $40 costs
$50 today. Ready-made shapes have also
gone up in an incredible manner, and
for that reason more milliners make
their own "formes." Felts, however. and
and manufacturers now charge $3.50 for
what two or three years ago could be
bought for 81
Feathers in Great Demand.
Fashion persists in popularizing feath-
ers and aigrets, with the consequence
that. while the flower makers sit with
folded hands, those who manufacture
feathers are unable to keep pace with
the demand. Notwithstanding the prog
ress made in ostrich breeding, which has
greatly developed within recent years.
plumes. and especially aigrets, have tri-
pied in value. with the price still rising.
Is 1t surprising, then, that a "chapeau
elegant today costs on an average OF
$50 to $50. while ten or fifteen years ago
the maximum price was from $50 to $50:
Despite the enormous rise in the cost OF
three triumphs of the modiste's art the
elegantes Of Paris find 1t necessary to
possess large variety Of headgear. and
a coquette who formerly was contented
with two or three hats in the season must
now have six or eight, and even then she
thinks she Is manifesting an admirable
restraint.
It may be some consolation to know
that the dressmakers have so far not sue.
cumbed to the prevailing temptation &c
raise their prices. Dresses today cos,
practically what they did ten years ago
In fact, two years ago there was q slight
"A very slight-diminution in prices. In
1900 a frst-class house. selling tailor
made costumes and plain dresses at $40
put the price up after the exhibition tc
$50. Then. little by little, they rose &c
500 But since then prices have remained
stationary, and If a customer knows how
to manage her affairs she can get wha,
she wants for $50. OF course. when one
remembers the changes that have taken
place in fashion during the past two years
it would be illogical to suppose that the
cost Of feminine attire should have risen
Innings, whalebones and underslkirts have
all been suppressed, 80 that the quantity
Of material employed In making a dress
has been reduced from twelve or fifteer
yards to four or five yards. It is wher
the changeable sex decides to abandon
the unclothed fashion Of today, and &c
back to the modes Of former times, that
the "couturier's" chance for putting uI
prices will come. And it will be strange
IL ne does not profit by the occasion.
Still Discuss Scandal.
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