| Show MEN CENSORS OF MILLINERY they are arc responsible for decided slump in prices according to washington dealer to watch the parade on P F street no one would drea dream in that there was a slump in the millinery trade nevertheless th eless high class milliners say that there la Is and moreover they blame the men for it we are almost giving our hats hata away said the head laiad ot of the millinery department in one of the ble big stores in this city in all my 20 years experience per peri ienco ence I 1 sever never know knew millinery to be sold for so little hata selli last year at 25 and 35 are now selling for 10 and sia 15 I 1 should say that there was a difference of from 10 to 30 per cent all along the line 1 7 I believe tho men are much to blame for this state of affairs for they sat down so unmercifully on the early styles you see wo we started in with many odd styles what are called in the trado trade freak shapes but their life was short the tha styles changed almost la in tho the twinkling of an eye so that the extreme styles of the early spring literally had to be thrown away hats flats costing 60 50 and 76 75 went up to the workroom to have the trimming removed and the shapes were dumped into the waste wastebasket baske t you see husbands simply down own on their wives are irrea ai t ac fio up P 1 n joua 10 jl i ia chi th 8 cpr bar d with their wire to pick out abir hats to prevent ta them hem from hinves investing U rig la in a peach basket washbasin wash basin or inverted bowl shapo shape before has haa so much fun been poked at millinery as this searon seabon the consequence Is that the bottom dropped out of prices and they have not been established reestablished re washington star i |
