The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-27
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esses" and foreign women fortu-
nate enough to have the magic cur
rency which can call cheap" the
most staggering prices when ex-
pressed in marks. This thought IL
ever uppermost in the minds of both
buyer and seller.
To this chinchilla coat. made to
order for an American woman, cost
eight hundred thousand marks"
there Is quickly and adroitly but
what is that your money!" And
when you figure 1t out you can find
that it's not much over $4,000. For
that you have a coat which before the
war only Russian princesses of the
blood could AFFORD to wrap around
their patrician limbs.
In this triangle OF Lennestrasse.
Budapestersstrasse and Bellevue
strasse-the Berlin Rue de la Paix"
is to be found the. Callot of Berlin
Baron Drecoll. the inexhaustible Jo-
hanna Marbach, Gerson- Prayer. Re
gina Frtedlaender. who are the Pre-
NETS and the Poirets and the Jennys
of the new Berlin.
Fame of Their Prices.
The exigencies Of the war forced
them into working out their SAL
walton Independent of the war and
already the fame of their styles. but
especially their prices. have spread
to New York. Paris and London.
They are flooded with orders. A
round of the shops showed no COM
plant about lack of business. but
much emphasizing of the diiEcui-
ties in getting the necessary raw
m al
OF the shops placed a limil to the
amount of orders that can be filled
for gowns and women's apparel Of
every descriptions. The German tex
tile market Is greatly depleted The
silk reservoirs Of Crefeld, the Ger
mar Lyons. are diminishing oaily.
The wholesale fur merchants Of
Leipzig, prior to the war, often
called the worlds center for furs,
claim they have been forced into a
measure of self-preservation where
by the so-called noble pe.trics"
Will henceforth only be sold on q
basis of international exchange
values instead of being priced IN
German values.
Frocks and hats for conventional
occasion are practically the same in
Paris, London, New York and Ber-
lin. In Berlin as elsewhere there
are more or less interesting varia-
tons on the same theme. A genre
that Is specifically Berlin special
ty is winter sport apparel now
crowding the formal toilettes --om
the shop windows. In that line Ber-
lin, has created many original de-
signs and has thrown Off the dc
! tatorial mandates of Paris.
Cslor Rams Rist.
Color runs riot in these winter
sport toys, than which nothing
more luxurious and attractive can
be imagined. Take, for instance. q
costume. the brooches of which are
of large checker-board pattern of
white and red, a jaunty short cost
with Understanding collar, .
visored cap with q touch Of fur, red
wooden stockings and black fur
line boots. The ski devotee who ac-
quires this outfit will create a
striking poster effect when, project.
ed upon the white and green winter
landscape. A woman Of fastidious
tastes could have q different winter
sport costume for every day in the
week.
Berlin shops and style moulders
also declared their independence of
Paris in the matter of, shades and
colors. Paris decreed black. Berlin,
just to show that 1t was indepen
dent in some things, decreed COL
ors. Rich-hued pelvets, a lavish use
Of gold and silver brocades and
laces and a marked penchant for
the entire gamut OF orchid and
purple shades, are the distinctive
fabrics and colors OF the winter