The Detroit times., 1914-10-28
War Affect Style?-There Is no
3tyIe," Says Partisan Author
ity On Dress
NANCE FOR AMERICA
TO TRY HER HAND
Ruop1e La Paix, Haunt Of FASH
( Ion, Now Deserted Street
Only Drug Store Open
81 WILLIAM PHILLIP, siAMs.

i PARIS, Oct. l2.--(By mail 10 New
& York. )-This year there will be no
|Rnris styles. Paris, mistress OF the
'world's fashions, IL thinking of other
.>hlngs. Most OF the famous dress,
onktng establishments are closed,
md the employees are making band
nges for the wounded.
& War, the great leveller, has taken
Ne coquetry out OF the women OF Eu.
Eopo: war has frightened the rich
<Amoricans away; some OF the men
: Who designed milady's dresses are
low camp cooks, .midinettes are max
|/ng underwear for the soldiers. and
HE duchess-like models and salesla-
11Go are Red Cross nurses.
In the fashion-creating quarter :. OF
Raris, the steel shutters are drawn;
HE Rue dc Ia Paix Is well named; IL
- preeminentiy street OF peace.
~ 4 asked the premiere OF o closed
me a. II Paix dressmaking establish
|aont what effect the war would have
~ he style.
''It won't have any" she said, -for
- very simple reason that there
Ron't be any style. Under present
cn6itions how can there be any
ky1of"
sFamine, IRE, pestilence and food
noy not be able to take away the de-
Iro 70 look charming vanity, II you
Eofor from modern woman. but
~ war has done It."
# ITS because we women are think
~ o. other things" she continued
obor1y. -Oh, we'd be only too glad
y keep the shops going II we could.
- you think we discharged all our
nployes IT the beginning of the war
NJ nothing? The demand for style
d1only came to an end. When
1olr men left for the war women
1ncelled orders previously given and
1(Eoined from giving orders already
1ciGed upon. She began to think of
- selfish things
eWhat.'
How she could help her men folks
~ her country. for one thing. The
0re energetic began some sort Of
"A few people there are In Europe
hose families are not directly inter
1ted Ia the war by having a member
y the firing line. These few are
nencially hit and must 60 slow with
fponses."
And your foreign trader
Your American women are our
&1of foreign customers and they are
~ likely to do much shopping in
xl4 this winter. South Americans
GOOD customers. but they have
Now 10 Americas chance to try
~ hand. This season we are NOT
lnt 20 set the style: we have other
eupations; we don't care who sets
You smile Is II you think we can't
iks said ].
Ton misinterpret by SMILE" she
yrocted. Your American women
II GOOD dressers and have taste-a
~ more Ike Frenchwoman's than
~ women 0f any other country, per-
~ poose6s. But here she smiled
~ and screwed her mouth up
~ the fashion Of shrewd people
Nc oho has whims; and one of her
Wn1ms ID that no hat and no gown
proety or stylish unless Il Is 's.ade
RoFis.' And. a. she has the money
gratify her whims, she viii get
nAg with q homemade variety un-
he war II over, and then she WIN
me back to us and make up for lost
Tonight at the fashionable hour
% 8 oiclock--I walked the length of
1e Rue de Ia Paix. Three months
80 - that hour the thoroughfare
~ packed with the feminine ele-
once Of the world; the street was
qrcharged with handsome tournouts:
Ao sidewalks, shops and ateliers
vore thronged with the bon tons of
}~o hsmispheres; everywhere was
rfune and grace and beauty and
oQuetry and extravaganza. Tonight
- street was almost deserted. Only
- red and green lights In Roberts
xug store were burning: the other
hops we're suffered. The one We
lole In the street was q cab drawn
n . horse scorned by the army while
eAer than myself there was but one
GeAr pedestrian using. the sidewalks.
H was Q wounded soldier, his arm
y = sling. making for Roberts.