| Show HOW FASHIONS ARE LAUNCHED popular actresses are tile best agents for starting altis a new style on the whole it might be found that the most profitable block which could bo be subsidized by dressmakers and milliner milliners it the actress in vogue who bhines shines eminently preeminently pre in moil modern lern comedy or modern vaudeville in euch pieces as la F famine amille De nolton 10 lo le mondo on ott ilon io camuso sA and les 1 femmes fortes some of tho the lidy lady member members of the company who wore aa as many a aa three or four costumes in the course of tho the even ing dremas mailo from the costliest male 1 rials and confected cd with the most exquisite I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 1 11 I 1 I 4 t taste ta ste served perhaps as better advertise aa vert iso ments than if it they had been only beheld for a few hours and at irregular intervals in the bois on a race course or at some fashionable concert or bazar the mannequin of tho the stage la is movable tho the ladies in the boxes and nod the gentlemen in the stalls can critic iso the dress from every point ot of view and decide whether the corsage and the train equaled or surpassed the bodice and petticoat seen from the front even the plebeian element in the audience la Is pleased and incited to emulation by tho the spectacle of these da dazzling Z and strictly up to date costumes and w when hen the dress are associated with the names of justly favorite sacR a stan stamp I 1 ll 11 I 1 of approval is at once given to the it dreda malting making establishment to which cunic cunning f 1 par in the newspapers never tall to draw attention nevertheless it must mut be well understood that the mere puffing of a dressmakers dressmaker le business by supply costumes cost umee to ladies and actresses who we wear ar them on the understanding that they aru arc not to pay foi them Is not in paris at I 1 least east the sole method by which widely spread fashionable acceptance can bo be obtained by the artists in costume the mannequin ot 01 block system Is a very old one in ili a modish sense and has been applied in bygone times to dandies as well a laler beau brummell was never called urion so the scandal mongers of three generi lions since used to whisper to pay tor for a coat or a it hat or a pair of boots lie ile had but to name his tailor tallor his hatter or lit his in ordinary and the grateful tradesman to whose shop crowds of would be beaus had resorted waa was not only too glad to let his mannequin have his equipments tor for nothing but would also au occasionally present him with a check for a good round sum As a matter of tact fact however when the poor beau collapsed financially and had hall to take refuge at calais it was found that among the creditors who bad had hunted him out of england were whole brigades ol 01 tailors and other precisely the same calumny of having acted as a titi tailors lors block used to be circulated and probably with about the same infusion of truth in it concerning count alfred dorsa r eay y who between 1830 and 1840 was un undeniably deu the leader of london fashions for gentlemen as the great and the greater were the acknowledged monarchs of the kingdom of ta llory aa As respects the launching of fashions fashion 4 foi for ladies it is not improbable that well known names whether they be aristocratic operatic or dramatic render very signal service in enabling successive types of the good 15 ship hip fashionable frivolity to walk waters like so many things of life but lefore before a fiL fashion hion can be launched it must be built and before it is constructed it must be devised nad and if not absolutely invented it must bo skillfully adapted from some bygone london telegraph |
