"READY-TO-WEAR." AN AMERICAN EXHIBITION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 84, 6 October 1909, Page 9

"READY-TO-WEAR." AN AMERICAN EXHIBITION.

All New York is flocking to the "Rea-dy-to-Weor Clothes Exhibition," which, organised at a -cost of £50,000, is designed to liberate Americans from all f ui ther dependence for fashions upon the tailors of London, writes the correspondent to a London daily. The exhibition, if a success, will be followed shortly by Dno 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 n revolving platform in the centre of the building twelve chorus girls — picked beauties oi tho New York stage — are showing off their own perfect figures in the newest designs of men's pyjamas, rainbow hosiery, sunshine waistqoats, sweaters, and boots. The clou of the exhibition, however, are trousers with a peipetual 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. Boots of overy imaginable variety are exhibited, to the admiration of the male community Some are high-heeled and manufactiired in colours to match the gorgeous hosiery, handkerchiefs, and lies. An innovation of which American designers are ospocially proud are the bright-hued sweaters for motorists. In connection with the exhibition a central bureau of designers has beer organised. They are working in shifts night and day evolving new ideas of dress, which are no sooner formulated than they are flashed to ail parts of the United States. "In future, observed Mr. Benjamin, one of the managers of the exhibition, "London designs will ba hopelessly out of date in \merica, for what New York invents at midnight will be in all the shops of San Francisco within a week."