Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1898 — A PARIS GOWN. [ARTICLE]

A PARIS GOWN.

la But an (MHtaul Creation Bast a Sort The Paris gown, that bursts full blown on the eye of the client, is not, as the public believe, a creation of the great dressmaker himself, nor is the great dressmaker responsible for the fashion. This model gown is the result of an almost infinite collaboration. Up in the garrets of the crisscross streets live a modest class of artists that make projects. They get their inspiration from old portraits at the Louvre, at Versailles, from elegant women in the driveways of the Bois, or from some hazard. They modify, develop, combine, following a drift which they do not control, till they have produced a novel idea that the public is likely to accept, and that is therefore salable. Their projects are fixed in sketches, and they are known as marchands de croquis. Others of these specialists make up their : projects in cloth, and are known as marehands de modeles. These occu--1 py a more important rank than the first, since the models form a demon- ! st ration that the ideas can be realized. ' The model merebsn: is in relation ' with the manufacturers, who provide her with the new anaterials they have imagined, and whose interest it is to have their “truck” presented to the great dressmaking houses and- so launched on the market. —Scribner’s.