New Britain herald., 1929-06-07
Paris Makes Shopping An Ait

New York. June 7-Perhaps it is just aa we'll that one half the world does not know how the other half shops.
 For 1t would be . let down to get excited over . few percale sheets at the semi-annual cotton sale if you had ever accompanied Mary Garden on . shopping jaunt and seen her buy half . dozen pink silk embroidered sheets costing $1.00O dollars apiece and 10 bottles of per fume. each costing more than a months rent
 Or you might be annoyed at the small amount of attention you rate at the bargain blouse center. if you had ever watched the respectful at. tention that is accorded to Mary Pickford when she goes into a Paris couturier's with her thermos bottle of milk and her dressing gown, and gives over the day to fittings and plannings-
 Developing Color Scheme
 Or how would you like to sit with Anita Loos while she selects her color for | season and then has it developed in day. evening and sports attire?
 Or make the rounds of the ex- elusive establishments with Ina Claire and select the high spo-s from each collection?
 Or become plebean with the state ly Dolores. who used to be the love- Hest sight in the Follies and is now the wife of Tudor Wilkinson. and descend to the Galleries Lafayette and watch her buy remnants and materials by the yard. to be made into gowns by her own lovely fin- gers?
 All About Paris shopping
 Just how shopping is done by rich Americans. and by those who come tourist third, is disclosed in . new book, Paris Is Woman's Town" by Helen Josephy and Mary Mar garet Mcbride, two American girls who know their Paris and know their middle west, and who have managed to collect items of interest for those who shop in Paris. and those who have never wandered in- to the shoppers Paradise, but have hopes.
 They tell you how to avoid the pitfalls of buying. and to come from with the sort of clothes that will acknowledge their Parisian origin in no uncertain terms.
 They tell you how to tell an original from an imitation. and how to bootleg your styles, if you want quantity rather than labels.
 A Matrimonial Mode
 They tell you what to expect from each house. For instance. if you want to attract a husband, they advise you to buy Chanel models for she knows what clothes draw the eyes of men, whether they live in singap pore or kokomo. If you are tall and stately and :! your architecture is pure Greek, Vionnet will do right by you. If you want to look dangerous and | vamp some other woman's husband away from her right under her own nose and still retain her respect, go to Jenny.
 Worth can make you look like a queen, despite your forbears-or at least like royalty. if that is your and Lanvin will somehow create an impression of dewey youth, no matter if you have not been able to approximate 1t your. self for a decade.
 They do say that this famous couturter clothes not only famous women. but men as we'll. and that one of New York's prominent men, about-town and his wife are both patrons of hers.
 Sophfsticatcd-or Not
 If you are the sophisticated type you will find Paquin and Cheruit your meat. or Poiret or Suzanne Talbot. If you want uneccentric. wearable, smart, clean-cut clothes that will proclaim you an American though on French soil, Lelong, Pa tou or Molyneux will do the trick. And, here's something to interest the public that follows the 1s-day diet-they do say that Martial ct Armand will make you look slim in spite of yourself-they practically control the smart Teutonic trade.
 And they give you this final bit of advice:
 Never. never. never, no matter what other folly you may commit in France, taks your husband dr any other man shopping with you. Let him pay the bills and thus show his cooperation, but limit his participation here.
 Where Can Husband Co?
 Which brings up an important issue not covered in the book. Where is woman supposed to park her husband while she spends her days parting with francs - parting that is such sweet sorrow?
 TO which Miss Mcbride, herself very literary and fond of reading. suggests:
 Let him go over to the office of the New York Times. where they have a really excellent reading room and all the papers, and let