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Show ": 4 ; 1 '- Z Here's a Girl Who Makes Dresses To Please Tots Who Wear Them . er. And there he first found herself., for her work called on her to design) costumes for the children to wear for pageants and games. This time she NEW YORK Did you ever stop to Slilnk how really unattractive ui1"' dresses for children are, how much material is wasted in them, and hw little the children themselves like , them ? You probably did not. But Daley Suiiford, a. dainty Brooklyn girl, did. Some years ago. when Daisy Stanford Stan-ford waa a golden haired little girl, she und her dadds played together in the orchard. And always the play with the most fun In it for her was decorating her dresses and huts with apple blossom j, flowers and gru You'll be a designer one of these days and sail across the ocean to Par I to bring back beautiful things to wear," said Daddj Stanford Cut It happened that, the little girl .-bowed little aptness with the principal princi-pal tools of the designer the pencil and paint brush. FR h ks ,n si GR1 w ' So Instead, she grew up. working h way through school by giving children piano lesions and finally graduating Into .1 kindergarten teach- .MKs Stanford always Irlins the' dresses he makes with the things i hll drcn low flowers, butterflies, birds. I was sure of herself for instead of ( the pencil and paintbrush, she used! j deft scissors and the little garments Ju-t grew" Into beautiful frocks. She finally realized that here w .1 but a narrow field. So with her scis-, sors and needle and thread she fashioned fash-ioned some garments for children that amazed even herself, so dainty they were and so original. Doubtingly she took them to a great New York manufacturer and showed' t hem He gasped. You must come right to work for! nie." be told her. "You Cah design! your dresses on a special table of . your own In my own work room and all my resources you can call on." Again the happiness of creation bdt then the realisation that the fruits of her labor were going to others. If I'm Rood for him," said she. "I ought to be goo. for myself." SHE NTS A FACTORY. V.nd so In her own home on a quaint, ' 1 hi -"haded street of Brooklyn, she went to work for herself. Her fame jrrew until now she ha a Clientele that stretches from Rockayay Beach 011 Long Island to Riverside Drive In Manhattan. But she still realizes that her field is limited and now she pictures a great whirring factory turning out by the hundreds the oreses she designs. You see," saj s ahc, "m dresses ate making happy only the rich little children now. And I want to see them glorify the children who need tlu-m most the poor ones. After they've worn my dresses the children don't eem to want the others." |
