Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1916 — Woes of the Fashion Mannequins of New York [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Woes of the Fashion Mannequins of New York

- . NEW YORK. —Well, just as the mannequins have been guessing right along IN would be the case, the line of parade for models has been extended all the way to Fiftieth street on Fifth avenue, with two counter-marches back to Thirty-fourth street, making more

than three miles in all and never faster than two minutes to a block. Honest, as the models say themselves, showing off the new duds these days ,I's about as exacting a profession as doing studio work for the movies, and with all that is expected IT does get on a girl’s nerves something awful, no matter what people may think. Imagine a model, all fixed up just as the pattern book says, and O-K’d by the designer, promenading up as far

as the first stone lion in front of the library, and a prompter, like as not, stepping alongside and whispering that it is time to raise the new parasol or ease off the summer furs at the neck, or giving some instructions about how to carry the head; of advice to shorten the step by counting one-two-three-four before she dares put a toe forward, just as if she were going down the center aisle on the fateful day with the organ playing that Mendelssohn time. And yet thousands of your women are wishing and wishing that they only had a chance to put on one of those fine gowns and take it out for an official airing. Under the new rules, unless a girl has been at least a full term at a dramatic school or taken a special course in posturing, she can’t hope to go through the hand, wrist, neck and shoulder work required of a model.