New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11
SOmbre Suits Take Place
of Gay Creations in
Paris Now.
SOLDIERS COMFORTS
THE SOLE THOUGHT
Every Moment Is Devoted to
Making Winter Garments for
Men in Trenches.
by NINE. JEAN ALCIDE PICARD.


/ Especial Correspondent Of The Tribune.l
Paris, Oct. 1O.-The winter season
has now begun in Paris. The schools
have reopened. A great many families
have come back from the country.
/ Everywhere houses on the boulevards
/ have come back to life.
This is the time when, generally,
gay crowds of elegant French women
/ invade the dressmaking establish
ments and the milliners' stores. But
how different this year is the aspect
of the shopping centre in the Rue de
/ la Paix and other not quite so select
but just as popular districts! The fair
shoppers are many. The women are
there. But they are not gay any more.
Business indeed is active, but it is
in last years styles and chiefly III
suits that are the simplest in design
and the most subdued in color. They
are not less attractive. these suits.
Their air of gravity is becoming and
/ they match well the serious purpose
which can be seen marked on every
woman's face-the desire of doing real,
helpful work.
You can read this in the women's
| eyes. Follow them into one of the big
stores You see at once that the new
| creations, astonishing combinations OF
shades, colors and lines, have lost
their attraction. The women are buy
! ing indispensable winter garments,
and that is an affair of only few
minutes. and very little rather in
| different thought is given TO it. What
! they are discussing so earnestly is far
more important to them now. II is the
most practical shape TO give to sweat
ers. socks. mutflers and other under
wear that they are themselves making
! for the soldiers.
Their delicate hands. instead OF
playing with costly materials and won
! derful fabrics, beautiful laces, ribbons
! and flowers that were destined to form
confections pleasing to the eyes OF
man and fascinating TO women-these
same hands are now expertly feeling
whether woods and fannes are soft
and warm enough and the needles are
of the right size for making the warm
! clothes that will preserve the efficiency
of our men in the field and save them
| from the cold of the coming winter
| When they have found what seems
most suitable they go home contented-
", carrying their own parcels, Tor nc
delay is allowed
They are better pleased with the
prospect of having soon another pan
of comfortable socks knitted than ever
they were with the wonderful gown
that was to give them an evening
/ success. SO everywhere hands are busy
Every woman. according TO her re-
| sources. wants to help toward the com
fort of our soldiers. During the Ions
watches of the night beside the wound
cd in streetcars and trains. behind
counters i'm stores and market places
waiting for customers; IN the living
room at home, while in the evening the
children prepare their lessons, needles
and crochet pins are flying. Even llttle
girls use them deftly, abandoning .heiI
dolls.
And every day. thanks to private
enterprise and with the help OF me
newspapers, whose proprietors provide
automobiles, thousands Of packages
| containing warm blankets. sweaters, a
mucicr. two pairs Of socks and n
/ change of flannel underwear. with 1T
tie tobacco. are being carried TO the
front. bringing to our soldiers IN the
trenches comfort and health, with the
thouohts and love of the women OF
! France.