Show MIS MISFIT FIT GOWNS A SHOP IN NEW NEIN YORK CITY WHERE THEY CAN DE CE PURCHASED now they rail into the tilte blands of the Shopkeeper dresses Irei ordered ami anti N not 0 it paid bor women who como come allonie from front abroad bort new york women cannot vote mores the pity but it is the bole sole remaining pre pro e that men have a cinch on worn wom en do and havo have everything else that back in the dark age AgeR was considered the et ex elusive pr privilege i of the lords of creation hero is an instance until re recently centy men had a monopoly 01 ol misfit clothing not so now fordery for v cry late ly a person whether male or demalo docs does not appear on the otherwise explicit sign but manifestly a progressive sive e person alic keeps up with the procession proc emion has started a ladies misfit clothing store this sh shop 0 r is situated appropriately enough in t lit I 1 heart of the tenderloin precinct every thing new or bizarre finds its way justine lively to the tenderloin district in the window is an alluring blue and gold ball dress with slippers lippers fe to match and a it gold bouquet holder older li which i is as the clerk tells you not absolutely indispensable tor for a ball costume but considered consid end tasty and st stylish lish 11 rho clerk is 13 a small girl with a persua sive eh e smile and arid a cold in ler her head sheba she has the useful knack knach of adaptability for when I 1 declined to examine the ball dress bh called my attention to a mink muff mull and boa quite good natu and declared that they would make inake me rile look very jaunty ja un ty all around theu the vails Alls are hung dresses ol 01 every kind and description while piled on the counters tire jackets ilsters and that species of meal ineal bag known as wrap rap 11 but these roods are secondhand and can bo be bought at any acol secondhand shop it Is necessary to carry uch such a line of goods bince since there is a demand foi fot them but this is merely a aside ride issue 11 II you scorn to wear the castoff garments ol 01 your fellow women and desire something new you can pass behind the portieres port leret eres which divide the from front the janet one and repose yourself on it plush sofa while the clerk spreads before lou you garments of every ev cry i variety all new and in the latest stile style how illow is s it you get these drosnes dr dros sest I 1 ask the clerk 1 I thought a woman would undergo any amount of standing gand and fit ting to get a dress right at last so they will she replies re we do not get dresses because the people who throw them back on the dressmakers makers hands handa ar are not pleased ua rith ith the set of the dress it is s because they cannot pay for them you eee see a woman goes to the dressmaker ard uld orders a dress quite an expensive one she furnishes nothing whatever the d dressmaker res furnishes every everything til ing and takes the risk of her paying forit it is customary to make inake a deposit but not everywhere well the dress is finished milady finds that she has not as much money as bhe she had bad the day she ordered the gown and find so she cant pay for it she i throws it bad back on oil the modister modi stes hands bands tor for felting the deposit it there lias has been one well tho the dressmaker has to do the best she can in order to prevent the gown being a dead loss she sells it tons to us andiliere and here liere it is just as good as it if you had ordered it yourself and much cheaper then there is another way in which wo get 1 dresses I lots of women buy a qua city of clothes abroad a great many at a time because they get them cheap they find when they get back that they dont want some 0 of them or they are a little bard up after the expenses of traveling and they sell item to us I 1 do you buy many things from ac tresses oh no irdeen hardly apy you see se e they thy always need the clothes they 0 order rde r and so there Is little chance of the their I 1 r throwing them back on the dres dressmakers er hands shands 11 then the little clerk begins to haul down the dresses from the hooks there is one of exquisite lace made over nn an underskirt of ashes of roses silk the waist is an elaborate affair with jet butterflies on oil the shoulders a jet bodice and a heavy fringe of jet and ribbons to finish the bottom of the tho waist the waist waistband band is stamped with the name of a fashionable modiste you can buy this dress tor for twenty five dollars the jet on the aalst w alst alone never cost a defty less than forty dollars hero ia is a smart brown dress of heavy broadcloth mado w m ith rt it severely stylish coat its only ornamentation being the large buttons which secure it there is an english look about the dress s and you are tire not ilot surprised to find flud inside the name of a well known tailor in regent street hanging next to it is a confection in dark green velvet and silk lightened by judicious touches of a beautiful pink and green brocade this dress was made in pans paris and was v as sold to tho tile misfit clothing people for reasons of a pecuniary nature you can buy a gown of rough gray and blue cloth trimmed with plain blue tor for twelve tw elve dollars A gray bedford cord with smart stuart blaik black blai k bra brad ti trimmings cornea comes at fou fourteen dollars lid and so soon on through the department you can buy a buttercup gauze dinner dresa dress or a blue flannel yachting suit you can get a gown for church or a peignoir to say your prayer sat home in and whatever lou you buy you can do it with tho the gratifying feeling that no man living can ever look down upon you from tho the misfit clothing cloth liin standpoint point again new york Ilo Ito corder |