Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — Clothes In New York. [ARTICLE]

Clothes In New York.

Clothes, the kind that are spelled with a capital “C,” mount to a price that would seem like fiction if you had not found it reality. There are shops along Fifth avenue—those that are labeled “Louise,” "Harriette,” "Mme. Jeanne’’—where one buys a gown or a hat—that is, one would if one had the money—as a collector buys a Corot or a Rubens. The artiste—oh. dear, no; nothing so plebeian as a dressmaker or a milliner—herself wears, say. a costume of lace with a rope of pearls to her knees. She meets her customers in a reception room where oriental rugs hush the footfall and softly shaded lights blend the colorings in the decorations. She looks my lady over. The hired designers, the fitters, the needlewomen do the rest. And the bill comes in, S3O to $l5O for a hat, S3OO to $2,500 tot a gown. There are plenty of prices like that in New York. Then there are others that gently let you down, down until you strike prevailing rock bottom at about sls for only the making of a gown and $25 for a hat that is a hat.— Broadway Magazine.