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PARIS, March 14th. Prices have now reached such a high level that it is a wonder, how any but → and poneran richer can profiteers manage to clothe themselves. One pays as much for the simplest of blouses and the shoddiest of footwear as one formerly paid for a complete outfit,
skirt warn with a smart aue jacket is an unknown quantity on the boulevards these days, E
That stupendous proposition which we vaguely name" "The Labour Trouble" bas made itself felt in the dress-making world of Paris as well as overywhere else, and it is now that the bad effects are beginning, to be felt.
There was a time when a Paris frock it was the last word in good taste, style, or hat as sought after not only because' and cut, but also because one knew that every stitch put into the article was put in by a conscientious, trained worker, and that one could rely on ita lasting to the and This blessed stato of things, is, alas a thing of the past. We now pay four times as much for our Paris clothes
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Any protest or comment causes the saleswoman to throw up ber hands and offer explanations which have to do with the increased coat of living, increased wagen, and: material. Evidently & great deal of this is true; but to a great extent the shops, lika, everyone else are "making hay While being a wave of unbridled oxution of, their manter ideas before the W FLAT in Kolon, FURNISHED while the up shines the sun, in this vain attempt to obtain the reliable workers to whom they entrusted the extravagance, and a reaction, leading to excesses in all directions, following on
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They receive their first shock when they are told by a couturiere that the war doce not influence them. Many treble the amount they received before her cheapest model is 3,000 francs, of the big designers pay their girls as made to order, 500 francs extra. Their much as 200 francs a week, but fail to next shock comes when an exquisitely. polite little modiste, sheltering behind obtain in return the carefni work so the glass front of one of the many coquet detary for the perfecting of their tish shops in the cosmopolitan quarter, All this is a pity, for it endangers the informs her that her cheapest hat in 200 very reputation of France herself. franca "After a few experiences of this till now, the anish and perfection of a Up kind, the women who set out so buoyantly French-made article have been by words; either plunge and lose all sense of pro if we can no longer count on these quali portion with these new prices or else ties, it will be a regrettable thing indeed. curtail their list to a few necessaries and all leave Paris wiser, anddened, and dis appointed women.
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employés and the higher prices paid by Naturally the higher wages paid to Despite high prices, French women still accessorica combine to account for the dressmakers for their materials and dress with the same amount of taste and fabulous prices asked for the very sim elegance a when clothes cost what pleat, dress or hat. When one sees goods romanticists call "a-mere song."" one item of their toilette which French enormous prices, one wonders how it is Then the shop windows marked at these women are particular about above all that anyone is able to dress at all. But others is their footwear. The neatness the marvel, is that Paris seems to be fali, and smartness of their shoes, and stock-of nothing but elegant, smart women, ings is a never failing source of wonder and the only explanation of the pheno- to the stranger. With stockings which menon seems to be that it does not appear range in price from anything to 300 to be necessary for the French women to franci a pair for silk and 60 francs, for have money in order to dress well. As thread, the sight of a pair of wore or rule, the Frenchwoman has such an untidy looking stockings is almost an unfailing instinct in the matter of choos One secret of this ever-fresh-looking perfect, that she rarely makes mistake. ing colours and her sense of line is so appearance is that French women always One has only to watch the little midinettes choose a close-fitting size in hose, and and shop girls come trooping out of their then always see to it that these aro pinces of business in the evening to observe drawn so that the seam comes in a per- that each one possesses a distinct note fectly straight line, at the back, finally expressing her own personality in her For Banks and Offices. adjusting suspenders or garters so that dress, no matter how simply it is made no wrinkle or slackness mars the nor how cheap the material used. This ensemble.
They choose, too, shades suitable to because it is useless for them to attempt is a fact which women should remember, their particular type. For instance, to wear with success a Parisian frock. slander limbed women are now wearing that is made to clash with light-shaded hose, biscuit, grey, and light or out-of-keeping hat: It in the sense of home-made champagne tones being very popular; the ensemble-that is, the woman whose ankles are not, perhaps, as scheme of dress; hat, bag, gloves, and general slim as they used to be are keeping to shoes and stockings that women should Hack, or more often & shade of pigger brown which possesses perfectly surpris fug qualifies for imparting a slim and tapering effect to ankles that are devoid of both these desirable qualition.
Black shoes are worn for all occasions; for preference black glace.
One result of the high cost of dressing The extra has been a revival in favour of navy bine light tan shade so much worn recently is and binek and white colour schemes. The thing of the past;, so, also, are the wide latter is particularly favoured, and the ribbon laces High heels and short smartest effects are obtained.. White vamps continue to prevail. Satin and frocks, trimmed with black and white brocade are chosen for evening wear,embroidery, are very popular, while an these, like the day footwear-being rather equal partiality is expressed for black on the subdued side in the matter of frocks showing white embroidery with, decoration. Very often the shoe is per-perhaps, a thread of silver running. fectly plain, any additional decoration through it. taking the form of a paste buckle or tulle bow or rosette. The wonder about the neatness of the footwear in Paris is that it is to be noticed with women of all classes and types with the women. who step out of regal motor cars as with the women who eare their living in an office, shop, or domestic calling.
endeavour to study more than they usually. do. For instance, if a Parisian is wear- ing tan shoes and stockings, she will never, think of wearing a hat that will clash with this shade-and so on.
Some very pretty race frocks have been seen made of white trimmed in lines with strips of white," crepe de Chine, and embroidered with. black dancing figures This is extraordinarily effectiver and the same idea has been carried out in another embroidery motif, worked in lines of Egyptian er Greek figures and hiero-
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For the last couple of sensons the in genious brains of the leading designeré have sped with the high cost of materials. by making use of stuffs and trimnings whith had never been known of before in the sartorial history of the country. For months ordinary American cloth was eut into strips and used thun for decorat ing hati dresses and coats of the elite, then the multitude. Then came raffic. and, Inst but not least, the humblest of atraws was introduced by way of em broidery en frocks. Now, with Ince and embroideries at a price to which only millionaires' wives and daughters might kapire, these same clever designers hava solved the problem by taking a few paints and stencil brushes and stamping, dainty patterns on to the light fabrics which the season demande, such as organe, voile georgette and mustin. A pretty frock of this type, deatino for wear at Deauville,
The renders of the first-mentioned pam Was in white organdie stencilled over phleta are informed that Australia is con with buttercups: it was to be worn with tinuing the huge fraud by means of SATURDAYS n white organdie hat trimmed with a which England has tried to justify the garland of the same delicate flowers. The seizure of German colonies of enormous same method is applied to certain types value.
A correspondent has supplied the London Morning Port with copies of pamphlets and leaflets issued by the League of German Patriots for pro- paganda purposes. They are in English: one is addressed to Britons with a Conscience and to the American People," and exposes the shameless robbery of the German Colonies" another declares how morally unft Australia is to act as a mandatory Power; and yet another is an appeal to British Churchmen.
of hats and even to stockings, although German commerce, was England's object which, with the destruction of The latter is more certainly a whim for in fomenting and entering the World the fantastic.
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There is a speculation that coloured War. It is stated, furthermore, in this stockings and coloured gloves will soon Pamphlet that it seems that Germany be launched on the fashion world, and can look only to the representatives of reign as they did about twelve years ago.ens to obtain the return of her colonies engaged in a desperate effort to divert Labour in Great Britain and her Domin It asserts that Mr. Lloyd George is now.. Yery few women are now wearing any but Brey, tan, or champagne shaded gloves, and the repeal of the outrageous condi- public attention from his own share in and the fore-runners in the matter of tions which the peace-butchers of Vermi. bringing about the war, and to throw the stockings are taking the form of stock-les have forced on her and in ibo and it asks whether you, followers of responsibility for the war on "Germany, Jugs hand-embroidered in shades to har concluding sente regret is expressed Christ, will not summen up sufficient monise with one'a dress Veils are a more that Australia ruled b, a spiteful, courage, sufficient moral and mental mtential part of one's toilette than ever. jingoistic autocrat, whose brain is steel honesty, to defy that immoral English The prattiest designs are worked on aed in the poison of Imperialism, inster Faxiom light, or, wrong, my country, Blet mesh, and the favourite shades are of by a fair-minded, generous statesman and to endeavour to purge your coun such as Smuts. Prime Minister of South try from the corroding poison of the navy and brown; ***
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Except when destined for sports wear, skírta are decidedly longer and filler than those of last year. Hand-in-hand in its leaflet addressed, to "British The League of German Patriots do with the craze for pleats (inspired, so it Churchmen"! the League of Germany, clares that it is certain” "that Christ is said, by the appearance in-France of Patriota says:
would not have approved of the Great the Scottish regiments in their braw The hopes of your statesmen, when Lie rotting the moral fibrs of a gras kiltay there came a strong liking for they rushed your people into the war.in nation, and it informs British Church Floids and tartans Knowing how diffi 1914, that British world supremacy would men that they have now a great oppor cult it is to fashion a whole costume of he firmly maintained for all time, and tanity to raise the influence of Christ's even a modest shade of tartan without that the ruin of Germany's commerce Church" among their countrymen and having it appear loud," Parisian de would bring an immense gain to British signers content themselves with using it trade, has not been realized. On the con- for="the_lining" of caps and open coats...
end for adding as a trimming on dark trary, England has lost her world post sinffs in need of a touch of relieving. tion and her prestige" colour. Needless to say, the kilted tartan (Continued at foot of next column.)'
to recover something of England's Vinished prestige, and honour, namely,
by
accepting the proof that Germany is
innocent of what is laid to her, charge, and that it is the Entente which is guilty,