ATRYING ORDEAL.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 337, 23 May 1885, Page 4

ATRYING ORDEAL.

" It's an awfully trying process, indeed it is, trying on a dress," and you need not laugh at me for saying so," and an intense young lady pursed up her lips, and looked with a glance of retrospective annoyance upon her companion, a reporter for the Scm Francisco Chronicle who ■was evidently chaffing her about her late experience. ' ; Now, do you mean to tell me," said the man, between the jolts of the cai", as it bumped over the Kearney-street crossing of Sntber-sfcreet, " that you actually faint when tou try on a dress ?"' " It is a fact that I do, and I do not want to be laughed at about it at all. Why, I am not the only one who faints. Other girl's do. Oh, it is dreadful ! I perfectly dread the idea of going near a dress.naker !" And the fair young lady gave a pretty shrug to her shoulders. " What kind of dresses make you faint the most when you are trying them on?' 1 continued hor ]jersecutor. Ci Oh, this kind !" and the ill-used being kicked out a foot, which raised a blue skirt! '• You see, these are what they call tailor-made suits — made in imitation of the clothes of gentlemen, — and they have to fit just so, or they would not be fit for anything. There are over so man. changes. You haveu't an idea. Why, sometimes whole seams have to be ripped" out, and then we have to stand so still that no wonder your strength gives out." (: How many times has your strength given out under a trial ?" " I remember fainting three times one morning while having a dress tried on. But that was ex° disable ; it was my first party dress, and I was awfully particular. The dressmakers got quite alarmed, and I was made to desist from having any more trials that day. But lam nothing to what some girls are. You won't believe it, bat I know some of my friends have to be braced up with regular drinks during the time they are under the dressmaker's hands. Some of them are perfectly horrid and keep you waiting and standing. 1 have stood from 8 to 12 o'clock without anything passing my lips. Now, can you wonder why I did not faint ?" " I suppose the figure has a great deal to co with the time ?"