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Show Dressmaking; In New York. Dressmaking can no longer be regarded as a distincively woman's trade. At a low estimate there are five thousand men dressmakers in this town today. The swell establishments in Fifth avenue have a host of imitators all over town. One shop in Orchard street is run by a man. The proprietor keeps two or three figures in the window dressed in the latest styles, and one cannot help ad- miring the way these dresses are made. There is not the slightest trace of shop work abotit them. The basques have evidently been cut after the French chart system, and the most ingenious woman could not arrange the draperies more artistically. More men than women are employed at this place. There is another establishment estab-lishment on Clinton street near Grand which employs fully as many men as women. They can be seen working side by side from the street. Some stylish garments are made there. As a rule men dressmakers are more thorough and artistic art-istic thaji their femalecompetitors. They are also much more expensive. This difference dif-ference is especially true of East Side dressmakers. Over there the women take up dressmaking as a temporary means of support or until they marry. Among East Siders an old maid is an unusual thing. New York Press. |