The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-29
lyle CREATORS
NOW SEWING
ON BANDACES
Var Affect StyIe?-There is no
Gtyle,s Says Partisan Author
81 ity On Dress
EHANCE FOR AMERICA
TO TRY HER HAND
|)ue de La Paix, Haunt of Fash
Ion, Now Deserted Street
(. Only Drug Store Open
By WILLIAM PHILLIP sIMMs,

X|<0I WfLLfAM fdiLLlf clAho.
6tan Correspondent Uatfed Press.)
PARIS, Oct. 12.-(By mail TO New
York This year there will be no
1fis styles. Paris. mistress OF the
worlds fashions. 10 thinking OF other
hlngs. Most OF the famous dress
oaking establishments are closed,
md the employees are making band
4 1Sos for the wounded.
81 War. the great leyellsr. has, taken
he coQuetry out of-the women-of Eu-
rope; war has Yrfghtened The rich
Americans away; some OF the men
who designed milady's dresses are
LOW camp cooks. midinettes are max
ING underwear for, the soldiers, and
+ The duchess-like models and salesla-
'6Ioo are Red Cross nurses. .%a-.
In the fashion-creating quarter OF
Paris. the steel shutters are drawn;
ne Rue de In PAX is well named; IL
y pre-eminently q street OF peace.
asked the premiere OF closed
hue de Ia PAX dressmaking establish
UnGnt what effect the war would have
"a the style.
~It wont have any" she said, "for
- very simple reason that there
Von't be any style Under present
Doditions how can there be any
fylof.
Famine, fire, pestilence and flood
~ 70 look charming-vanity. IL you
Pokor-from modern woman, but
- war has done It."
IT'S because we women are think
- Of other things" she continued
roorly. "Oh, we'd be only too glad
keep the shops going II we could.
IA you think we discharged all our
mpIoyes 1t the beginning Of the war
t n0thingf The demand for style
denly came to an end. When
~ men left for the war women
nncoIled orders previously given and
4kn1nod from giving orders already
ocl6ed upon. She began to think of
- selfish things.'
~Whatf~
How she could help her men folks
"a her country. for one thing. The
ere energetic began some sort Of
~ few people there are in Europe
hose families are not directly inter.
Dted IN the war by having q member
the firing line. These few are
nsncially lift and must 90 slow with
<ponses." -
And your foreign trader
Your American women are our
li6f foreign customers and they are
~ Akely TO do much shopping In
4ris this winter. South Americans
~ good customers. but they have
lkted, too.
Now Is Americas chance to try
of hand. This season we are not
ming to set the style: we have other
ccupations; we don't care who sets
You smile as II you think we can't
- IT," said I.
You misinterpret by smile" she
Qrrected. Your American women
~ rood dressers and have taste--a
rte more like q Frenchwoman's than
10 women Of any other country, per-
epes possess. But" here she smiled
Am and screwed her mouth up
kter the fashion Of shrewd people
but she has wnims: and one of her
PET whims IL that no hat and no gown
" pretty or stylish unless II Is ',-ade
Paris. And. as she has the money
~ gratify her whims, She will get
1tong' with homemade variety un-
l the war IL over, and then she win
ome back to us and make up for lost
lime"
s Tonight, at the fashionable hour
70 s o'clock--I walked the length of
ne Rue de In Paix. Three months
4go at that hour the thoroughfare
|xas packed with the feminine ele-
ence OF the world: the street was
unchanged with handsome tournouts;
the sidewalks, shops and ateliers
we're thronged with the bon tons Of
Two hemispheres; everywhere was
perfume and grace and beauty and
eoquetry and extravaganza. Tonight
ne street was almost deserted. Only
ne red and green lights In Roberts
4rug store were burning; the other
hops were shattered. The one We
n1cle In the street was q cab drawn
~ horse scorned by the army while
other than myself there was but one
other pedestrian using the sidewaiks.
He was q wounded soldier, his arm
~ sling. making for Roberts.