Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — N’YAWK WOULD BE STYLE HUB [ARTICLE]

N’YAWK WOULD BE STYLE HUB

Waist Makers Plan to Have Gotham Supersede Paris as Fashion Center. New York. —Plans for making 4 New York and not Paris the style center of The world for~wbmen’s clothing were outlined here at the annual meeting of the United Waist League of America, attended by delegates from all parts of the country. Samuel A. Lerner, president of the organization, predicted that the movement would have the support, not only of the waist manufacturers, but of the dress manufacturers, milliners and other producers of woman’s wear. President Lerner announced that the Pennsylvania Railroad company had offered a site for a $6,000,000 building which It Is proposed to build in this city to house all the waist manufacturing plants in New York.