The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-02
Partisan CoStumers, at Least,
Seem Inclined to Cling to
Last Years Styles.
WILL NOT BE INFLUENCED
American Desire for ouleter Garments
Not Likely to Be Considered
Spries. Vines and Tiny Flow
ers Are Again Feature
Of the Coming Modes.

yyYOMEN are not so impatiently
w awaiting the new styles as the
merchants and dressmakers
are, who always approach the begin
ming OF March and September with
some trepidation. II is all a gamble
this question Of exploited gowns for
a vast number OF women with varied
tastes. There are many sources OF
supply for new gowns, although Paris
is an inspiration for all of them. Every
dressmaker does not offer to the pub
lie original French gowns or exact
copies of French models, and the bulk
OF the materials that are offered 49,
with few exceptions American made.
The wholesale houses which dress
the average American woman send
buyers to Paris we'll before the buy
ers for the retail houses go over. IL
is necessary for them to have styles
that can be modified. adapted. and
made available for the average woman
who wants something new, from Mon
treal to Mexico.
The models must be ready at the
time when the women are going shop
ping for reduced winter clothes, and
they are usually founded on French
ideas that we're brought out In No
vember. They do not always differ In
marked manner from the gowns that
are shown to the retail buyers during
February, because Paris Is not as rev.
dictionary as one would think Its
ideas connected with its fashions de-
velop and do not reach fulfillment I'M
I'll the second season with them has
been launched.
Promises for the Future.
There is a great deal OF talk go
ing to and fro over there anent the
fact that Paris is wearying OF fantas-
tic clothes and that II 10 seeking 10
regain prestige by seriously returning
to simpler fashions. This may be
happy philosophy worked out by the
onlookers, but not seriously with any
such intention on the part OF France.
or any conviction that her fashions
are fantastic.
The many designers over there are
paid to follow out their own plans
without regard to the rest OF the
world. although the American buyers
feel that the visits OF Worth. Poiret.
Georgette and Jouda, who is the head
OF the house Of Bernard, signifled the
spring movement toward finding GU
what American women were produc
ing in modern fashions.
The probability is that each OF these
famous designers came over here a
the urgent invitation OF certain head
OF American firms, and each was ex
plotted and managed in a clever wa,
that gave us reason to believe that
America was at the bottom OF the
whole thing, and not Paris.
Want Quiet Costumes.
Those who have seen the gowns Of
Worth and Poiret since their visit
here see that America has certainly
not given them any ideas, but II may
have conventionaliEed their future
product for two reasons; the first is
that they saw the reproduction Of
their creations on every side which
have been produced At eight OF ten
dollars and worn by the wrong woman
at the wrong hour; the second is that
they discovered the quiet manner Of
dressing which the best placed Amsri-
can woman adopts.
Whether OF not America subdued
Poiret one cannot tell. but the fact
remains that the new gowns which
be designed for RicheS:a's new play,