Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13

every emergency. Shs Is not poor, suffering
helpless victim of the caprices of fashion.
This shows how far We have progressed to-
ward the ideal permanent fashion. The woman
of to-day stands strong and free, like the
Venus de Milo, but more civilized, more re-
fneG-
or course. there is much still to be done.
cannot say when women will have pockets
in their clothes. A three-piece suit, with
large pocket, was recently introduced by
very advanced thinker in the dressmaking line
but 1t would not go. 1t was too fast Com
parativeiy few women care to look boyish.
In fashion woman aims TO have somernni=
quite unlike anybody else, while a man tries
to be dressed like everybody in his set. Do
you know that we have a department in our
house where We create exclusive costumes?
We guarantee that it shall be exclusive in
style and material for the season and the city
where the customer lives. Such costumes often
cost as much as $500 When you know that
the dress may contain eight yards OF rl"h
fabric costing $25 a yard, you Will admit that
the charge is not excessive.
Certain American women now enjoy world
wide reputation as models Of good taste and
style in dress. Some of our most successful
styles are actually known by the names OF
American women who first wore them.
Frenchwomen and other Continental women
of the highest society often come to us and
ask to have their dresses made in these styles.
! have heard there is a movement to create
STYLES in America and get rid of the leadership
of Paris. l do not believe it can have any
prospect of success for many years. 1t is not
a practical idea. We have in Paris 100000
people engaged in dressmakng and the in
dustries dependent upon it. Good taste in
form and color has become natural to these
people from birth. Our youngest work girl
can make useful suggestions about the drap-
ing of skirt. In fact | never know exactly
what dress will look like when l begin it.
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You do not have this enormous class OF
work people in America, and you cannot de-
velCp it in a hurry. Those who work on
clothes here are, l believe largely immigrants
from Eastern Europe. They are excellent
workers on tailor-made garments but not re-
markable for sense of form and color.
America has been pioneer in developing and
perfecting the two-piece walking suit. Ameri-
can women know how to wear it best and still
look best in it. Evidently American workers
are very competent in making this sort OF
costume
giving all your energy and determination to
it, you cannot succeed in originating fashions
almost as good as the Partisan But have you
not enough other work to attend to? Why
not leave to Paris the art she has spent cen
turtles in perfectng. Paris will not take the
steel industry from Pittsburgh.
1t is true that my grandfather was an Eng
lshman, but he went to Paris when he was
fifteen years old, and he never went away
again for fear he might lose some OF the at
mosphere. He was more Partisan than the
Parisians
I have come over here to try to make some
arrangement by which the copying of Partisan
makers names on American made dresses may
be stopped We are willing to have our styles
copied because that is one of the motives that
make foreign dealers buy our goods, but we
do not care to have hundreds of inferior copies
put on sale with the name of Worth" quite
plainly written on each of them.
The other leading dressmakers of Paris are
equally victims of this practice. l think that
the advocates OF American fashions for Amer!-
cans might ston this a preliminary reform.