The Washington herald., 1919-11-11
NEW YORK CITY
By O.. o. McTNTYRE

New York. Nov. 1o.-Paris no longer
leads the world in styles for the ul-
fashionable Manhattanese. Paris.
long the style capital OF the world.
now halls Michael. an American or,
to be more explicit, of New Yori<'s
own Fifth avenue. Michael 10 a dap
per wsll-set-up young man in his
thirties.
He has jet-biack. shining hair, a
suave manner. a strictly American
accent and an all-observing eye for
beauty. He fairly exudes energy. He
Is now regarded by fashion experts
as the style pace-maker for the
world. And. best OF all. he has tenn
permanent
He branched out for himself on
upper Fifth avenue In a salon Of
spiendor several years ago. Then
The war came on. Paris forgot frills
and furbelows to don the sack cloth,
After the war Michael. working quiet
ly in New York.. emerged on the
fashion world as the style-maker.
not only for Paris. but for the whole
OF Europe and America, too.
May Birkhead fashion editor of the
New York Herald in Paris, in ca
Bile to her paper. says "Aftor see,
chael. am inclined to think Amer
lean tailors hare developed style
Of their own and have become real
creators In that particular line. I
can see no French influence whatever
In the American tailored suits of
Michael. His work Is strictly Amer
ican." e."
And so 1t is that the humble lit
tie filter OF a few years ago has as
complished something every tailor in
America has been trying to accom-
plish for years-that Is, to set styles
for the world In New York, instead
OF In Paris. All the Paris suits are
now following the American styles.
i dropped into. Michaers Fifth ave
nue. shop the other day. 1t Is a cozy
place Of dignihed elegance. 1t is IN
black and white. There are SUBJ
dued lights. great velvet curtains,
and saleswomen who have real draw
ing-room manners, And then there
are the mannikins-young and beau
tiful girls with perfect figures. who
display the latest suits that Mi
chaers artistic fingers create.
And there is Michael himself
wearing a perfectly fitted suit of oc-
tober brown and in his own private
den smoking a gold-tipped Russian
cigarette with easy nonchalauce.
Outside at the curb were many H.
rousines with liveried chauffeurs.
This is typical of the New York
beauty. And she was beautiful. So
beautiful that folk stopped looked
and listened. irving to remember
where she had been seen before. She
looked like a magazine-cover girl.
with her gold hair. the heaven-blue
eyes shining behind dark curved
lashes, the sweetly-smiling lips and
the fair complexion. No cosmetics
were needed to add charm. She was
the type so rare in these days of
artif1ciality. And while I stood ad-
miring her, she turned to her COM
psnion in a voice like dripping honey,
Say. amt it funny that them there
neighbors of ours don't belong to no
swell clubs or nothing"
Tive prize Of novels Wi, soon sotr.
The higher cost of fiction is inevita-
BILE. whatever the Cdtcome of the
printers vacation. according to New
York publishers. II the present diff
ficulties were adjusted on the basis
of the offer OF the master printers,
novels and Juveniles would be sold
be g, 900.
II the strikers win, the price will
be $3.50. II there Is 4 compromise
we shall probably have a 50 IS novel.
Fiction-readers will grumble. but they
will pay. New authors will find II
harder to break in when the price
goes up. for It Is natural to suppose
that the volume Of sales will dimin-
ish and the publishers will be less
inclined than formerly to take a
chance with unknown writers.
AS for the typographical problem.
it is freely predicted by some makers
of books that a satisfactory process
will be invented that will do away
with typesetting altogether in book
manufacture