Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-19
BIG CROWD SEES
SPRING CREATIONS
Stores Packed Last Night
at Spring Opening
of Styles.
AFFAIR A SUCCESS
Living Models Display Styles to
Advantage Music Furnished at
Several Stores--Elaborate Stocks.

Practically duplicating the enor-
NOUS crowd that witnessed the style
shcw parade on Wednesday even ing,
the many merchants Of the city err
tcrtained throngs of people III the
stores last evening and today. moth:
ing but expressions Of satisfaction
over the first community opening are
to be heard.
The weather man continued kind
yesterday and the streets were
.hronged with people throughout the
greater portion of the day. The stores
opened at 7:15 o'clock for display pur-
poses only and every store included
in the list was visited by extraord:-
nary large; crowds during the even
ing.
A!exandriass first big style show
closes today and its closing VIII
mark one of the biggest events Of
its kind ever held in the city. Gen
eral opinion is that the success which
attended the show would result in the
staging of similar affair in the
autumn on more elaborate scale.
Probably the largest crowds of til
evening visited the stores of Swan
Brothers, Bendheim's and the Leader
Store.
Georgeous decorations, both inside
the stores and in; the windows, at
sracted cnster crowds to these stores.
Tie Swan Store was place of beauty
from first to top floor and the crowds
made passage in the aisles almost i'm
possible. The decorations were beau
tiful in the extreme and much credit
is due Mr. Baker, the display manager
Of the store, for the work and time
spent in making an attractive dis
play.
Orchestra music and living models.
displayi, 2 the latest in suits, coats
and dresses for spring and summer.
proved the major attraction at tie
Bendheim's store last evening, and
long before the model display began,
every person who could possibly
squeeze into the big second floor
space had arrived. The crowds kept
coming larger and larger and it is
estimated that many hundreds were
turned away, unable to get near the
scene.
A long runway had been laid out
and the models promenaded down
this runway, the visitors to the store
being seated and standing in a dense
mass or either side. SO many per-
sons were turned away that the man.
agement of the store has decided to
duplicate the opening next Tuesday
evening.
Decorations inside the store and in
the windows were Of the highest char
acter and speak much of the artistic
ability Of Mr.. Munich, the stores dis
play manager.
At the Leader store, which is q
place of unusual beauty, the great
crowd of Wednesday evening. when
music and dancing featured, was dup
licated and the sightseers kept COM
ing until late hour last night.
The shoe stores of the city are
deserving of very special merton
for the window decorations and the
artistic ability shown in the interior
decorations. Beautiful window dis.
9lay featured the contribution to the
style show of the katz shoe store
NJ. W. Gaines and P. NJ. Bradshaw
store, while other tasty shoe windows
formed part of the displays of sew
eral clothing merchants.
Among the premier mems clothing
| decorations were those of Downhan
and Ridgley, Eddy and Gerber, Kauf.
man and Blumenfeld. Alex. Kaufman
Abe L. Cohen, B. Abramson, Levin
son Clothing Company, and others
,,-ts
displayed was apparent that tn
chosing of premier display woult
difficult task.
Many of the smaller stores outdi'
themselves in the variey and beaut.
of the display. Two Of the pretties
windows to be found in the city wer
those Of Frank Michelbach, Alexan