Evening journal., 1914-10-30
HOME fashion
FETE IN new YORK
Americans to Set the Pace
This Year in the World
Styles
WILL EXHIBIT
HOME CREATIONS
BY MARGARET MASON.

written for the United Press.
American made for American maid,
AS a slogan is really first rate;
So a Fashion fete smart,
Next week here they'll start
That will settle our fashionable fate.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3O.-It will sure
" be some fete, but American de-
signers and dressmakers and mill
liners are pretty certain to land with
both feet when the Home Fashion
fete is pulled off in our midst No
vember fourth, fifth and sixth, at
the Ritz Carleton Hotel.
Maybe it isn't so much patriotism
as it is desperation now that the
Partisan road to Fashion is closed
TO lovely woman, that has caused her
to start this agitation to boost
American styles. Anyway. all the
little Yankee Doodle milliners and
dressmakers and tailors are too busy
getting ready to prove their long
sustained cry that they can produce
Just as good models as the Parisians
II only the women would give them
a chance, TO bother about the motive
This gala affair which is intended 20
show Americans what Americans can do
In the clothes line was started by wei
/ known Fashion publication and the list
of its exclusive and monied patron
esses has grown and waxed exceedingly
strong. Il numbers the names Of such
fashionably elect as Mrs. Vincent Astor
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. Philip Ly
dig. Mrs. Conde Mast, Mrs. Amos r. E
Pinchot. Mrs. T. Suffen Tailor, Mrs
Frederick Townsend and Mrs. Frencl
Vanderbilt. With such advocates read,
to don homemade models, Mrs. Harlem
Flat and indeed Mrs. Everywoman, U
lis. A., are bound 10 follow suit-and ha
and gown.
Here's the idea-on the evenings o
November 4, and 8 and afternoons
the last named two days the ball room
Of the Ritz Carlton, donated by the man
agement, will be peopled with fascin
ating and charming manikins all dole
m in the latest creations OF all tn
smartest and most exclusive-to 50,
nothing of the most expensive-mi
I;ners. dressmakers and tailors Of Ne'
Yorlr They will undulate slowly abou
In that form Of locomotion peculiar I
the genius maniSins before the admirin
gaze of the smart set, the st'ge iaNol
ties. the general public and those OF NJ
: poiloi who have had the IS price OF
ticket of admission. They VIII promel
lade 10 the sweet and gratis strains
the smnrtest anC best orchesI,as
town. Othe advertisements IN the v,
Of entertainment are promised p9t y !,
\ manikins in all their glory and Z
American made sartorial creations a
The fete will be copied after u
famous Paris openings and the mode
selected for exhibition will be chose
bv iury of the patronesses. No e.
bibItor will be allowed more than tW
models in each class Of garment
which are divided into five classe
rhese include tailored suits, gowns
hats. furs and blouses; top coat'
afternoon toilettes, hats and furi
evening gowns and wraps and negl
gees. ..,,
that ANYTHING Of the sort on such z
elaborate scale has been attempte
! OF course, the several large depar
ment stores have had their seas'
fashion shows, where manikins wal
ed and money talked but those we
to display the "dernier cri" OF Z
conrtiers and modistes Of that de
(meaning anything but cheap Pai
while this coming event in the Fas
ionable world will bear the stamp
American approval, the seal OF I
limited States and the labels OF NJ
York firms only.
Best of all, the proceeds are 10 go
the Committee Of Mercy, which Is
ganized for the relief of all those pc
women and little children OF eve
nation left destitute by the Europe
war-not only of Fashion but
everything that makes life worth l
ing or even possible. II isn't OFT
that the foibles and frailities OF fa'
ion result in such ultimate good.
with the two laudable and huma
intentions or benefiting the destit'
of war and encouraging our o.
tradespeople, the fate OF the tashi
fete should be assured.