. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. Fig. 6 246 Waist Drapes. Fig. 7 247 WAisr Dh.\im;s There may be some few old ladies wliofollow the mandates of comfort ratherthan those of fashion, but these are rarecases—with the average woman style isparamount—it is the one essential requisitein anything she wears. And the rapiditywith which style information travels isastonishing. A fashion is developed by theParis dressmakers—within a fortnight acomplete description with photographs, thegarments themselves perhaps, are in thehands o
. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. Fig. 6 246 Waist Drapes. Fig. 7 247 WAisr Dh.\im;s There may be some few old ladies wliofollow the mandates of comfort ratherthan those of fashion, but these are rarecases—with the average woman style isparamount—it is the one essential requisitein anything she wears. And the rapiditywith which style information travels isastonishing. A fashion is developed by theParis dressmakers—within a fortnight acomplete description with photographs, thegarments themselves perhaps, are in thehands of the leading American stores. Afew days later the new fashion makes itsappearance in the show windows. In the meantime the many fashionjournals, representing millions of circula-tion, have carried patterns and descrip-tions of the new mode to the most remotecorners of the country. Any woman whois willing to pay a dollar or so for a goodfashion journal, can get all the style infor-mation she wants, no matter how far inthe backwoods she may live. This uni-
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