NOVEL DRESS SHOW.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2628, 9 October 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

NOVEL DRESS SHOW.

SCHEME TO OUST LONDON FASHIONS.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13. All New York is flocking to the “Ready-to-Wear Clothes Exhibition,” which, organised at a cost of £50,000, is designed to liberate Americans from all further dependence for fashions upon the tailors of London. The exhibition, if a success, will be followed shortly by one devoted exclusively to-women’s wear, with the object of proving that the yearly pilgrimages of wealthy American ladies to Paris to procure the latest and most beautiful creations in dress are superfluous and unpatriotic. On a .revolving platform in the centre of the building twelve chorus' girls —picked beauties of the New York stage—are showing off their own perfect figures in the newest designs of men’s pyjamas, rainbow hosiery, sunshine waistcoats, sweaters, and boots. The clou of the exhibition, however, are trousers with a perpetual crease through the middle of the legs. Small tailors who earn their living by pressing trousers are in terror of the electrical process which renders the creases immortal. doots of «v*ry imaginable variety are exhibited, to the admiration of the' male community. Some are high-lieel-I and manufactured in colors to match the gorgeous hosiery, handkerchiefs, and ties. An innovation of which American designers are especially proud are the bright-hued sweaters for motorists. In connection with the exhibition a cental bureau of designers lias been organised. They are working in shifts night and day evolving new ideas of dress, which are no sooner formulated than they are flashed to all parts of the United States. “In’future,” observed Mr Benjamin, one of tlie managers of the exhibition, “London designs will be hopelessly out of date in America, for what New York invents at midnight will be in all the shops of Sail Francisco within a week.”