Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-11-03
THE COST OF DRESSING.

THE COST OF DRESSING.
New York costume creator has taken exception in
dgnantly to Chicago dressmakers assertion that So
ciety girl can dress on S2500 year
Come to think about it, $2500 year for girls clothes
is rather SMALL and the wonder is that more modses have
not arisen in righteous wrath
The Chicago dressmaker-mere dressmaker, mind you
who thus seeks to snatch the bread from the mouths Of
her professional sisters ought be severely dealt with
The New York costume creator makes it delightfully."-
clear that real Manhattan belle warranted genuine and
equal to any maniageabe title in the world represents
approximately expenditure OF $4,000 annually on
gowns and other feminine fXings
Note the cautious word Approximately" This amount
of course does not include all expenses Soda water chew
ing gum and speck of sticking plaster for the chin
extra.
This is as good time as any to remark that nobody
knows ever did know or ever will know what it costs
girl to dress herself. The cash cost measured in
money may be estimated possibly That is what the New
York and Chicago dressmakers are trying to do with
striking lack of unanimity in their estimates.
But there girls whose expenditures for dress are
not measured by fashionable dressmakers-girs who
spend little money their dress because they have little
to spend but who devote world Of careful thought and
wise economy and patient labor upon the things they
The swell modiste does not live who tell what Molly
AIMS pongee actually cost her. OF what she has
tualy given for her stunning new hat The amount OF
money she paid for the materials may easily be estimated
but the work she has put on them the sacrifices she has
made for them the bright hopes she has sewed into them
who can tell all that? Whobut Molly Ann? There are
millions of Molly AIMS in the world but not of them
has offered to tell
1t is not all of life to have fine clothes. To know how
to wear them is quite different thing With all their art
the swell modistes cannot give with $l400 evening gown
the faculty of wearing it with the easy grace displayed
by some maiden of humble degree in taffeta from mark
ed-down counter.
$1,000 dress may give more satisfaction to a sur
feited daughter of wealth than it would to doll And
Molly Ann in the dress she has bought herself made her
self and put herself may feel pretty and as dgnfed
as princess and look it every inch.
The dispatches Sunday announced that the immense
resources of the Rockefeller Foundation would be used
for the relief of non-combatants in the countries afflicted
by war; The announcement made yesterday by John
d. Rockefeller jr head of the foundation that millions
would be used if necessary" That it will be necessary
goes without saying and the money is in the fund.- the
outlook for relief for the distressed is frightened Rookie
feer has been about the most roundly abused man in
America and therefore in the world but If his vast wealth.
so much of it is necessary is used for the purpose
mentioned the American people will have q much more
kindly feeling toward him and his
The directors of the New Haven and Hartford rail.
al Ia,