Worth as a Ladies' Dress Designer.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1056, 26 May 1892, Page 5

Worth as a Ladies' Dress Designer.

A friend of mine once went to him to get a costume. This lady could never get any drea3 to suit her ; something was for ever amiss with the tone or shape. Nature had not been over kind to her either in form or colour, and her dressmakers, as she said herself, always attired her according to the fashion of the hour, which, of course, not being originated for her specially, could not be expected to suit her. Worth wa3 at last caught in a moment of leisure by this applicant, who had lingered about the threshold of his palace of fashion for some weary weeks before she could gain her point. The great man looked her over critically as one might examine a horse for sale at a fair, then he made her walk before him twice, and tolling her ‘that would do/ consigned her over to an assistant, who took her measurements, her name and address, and gave her a receipt for her fee of lOOgs. A week or so more passed, and then the dreamt-about costume came to hand—as tee lady remarked : —* It was the plainest and shabbiest looking frock that ever I saw, but when I Tried it on I looked bolter than ever I had done in my life.’ Worth’s idea suited this Indy because it was fashioned only for her, but ten chances to one it wou’d not have suited any ono else. Why ? B .cause there are no replicas in Nature. _ This is where a ruling fashion is so ridiculous ; it may answer the one who is important enough to bring it into vogue, but it cannot possibly, for the reason which I have stated, answer any ono else.— Hume Nesbit, in Belgravia.