ad salmon over thoroughly butter or oil, and wrap, in a piece of greased paper. on the baking-tin and cook in the arden Peas 1 fesopoonfal sugar pots the peas in the butter melted At the beginning of every season wanton have to. replenish their wardrobes, and it is a subject of never-failing interest to watch their various manners of doing it, There are women who know ex-
Jactly what suits them. They pay no attention when you say, "This would be very becoming to you." As they watch the procession of mannequins passing before eyes, They wait attentively unt the very model that was made for them approaches.' Then their decision is unerring. "That is my gown," they seem to say, These women are leaders. Everything they do is noticed, everything they [choose is remarked, all their clothes Jand their manner of wearing them jate copied by a dozen less intelligent. friends and acquaintances. Wher-fever they go, enger eyes follow them, and every detail of their tele is noted at once. 1¢ tomorrow pair of bright green gloves, we ne of these women should wear a should be surprised, but a few days later we should sce other pairs, and very. soon this would be 9 mode adopted by the mass, "until the original wearer tired of iL and took up something else.
These women ars, for the couturjer, the most preciou> collaborators They give him confidence when they Jerrrove; on the contrary, they give him many hours of anxious refleetion when a chance criticism of a wvelty in which he had faith meets hhis cars. For the entire personnel of the house, thes" women are the ideal clients. "The saleswoman knows, that her model will be doubly appreciated, first, because it is pretty, and, secondly, because it is chosen and worn by a woman of clothes understanding. The fitter will never have to hesitate between two courses. What is decided at the frst fitting, will stay till the last. Once the material is chosen, ther will be no changing, and naturally enough this type of client will always have the most successful gowns. At the first_ moment of [choosing her model, this client will decide, explain, demonstrate every. thing and so well that the workers are inspired to their best and would begin all over again twenty times rather than to disappoint this model client.
Other women, on the contrary, begin by choosing as a model the very one that they should never consider. At the vary first. fitting comes the inevitable disillusioning professional in the business knows that he can never make a good job of a faulty first choice. It is quite vain to try to struggle against ignorance.
Ignorance, that is the word. In order to know oneself, one must be ready to criticize oneself. One must understand the subtle' art of leaving out anything that accentua= tes an imperfection. This is a big order, but it is no exaggeration to call this faculty an art, and it is as rare to find it among' the clients, of a great house as it is to find real virtuoso in the domain of musicians, We all knew twenty good performers for one real master:
In a third category are women who determine their choice of imply by waiting to see chosen by those they mire and imitate, They go so far. that they will even wear a gown which they disliked at first. sight, Madame So-and-So has ordered 'A Paychologist would find amuse ment and instruction in watching the choice of the clients in a big. dressmaking establishment. He' would be able to study all kinds of mental states—ardor, discourage. nent, will power of indifference, Though they might seem to him out of proportion to the occasion, they. would be plainly visible on the faces of the women at the moment of their all-important tehoice, From the very first moment, an experienced saleswoman knows with' which class of client she has to doy fand an experienced one would be able to foresee and write down in advance all the stages of choice, ictinge and refitting, until the model Gnally packed in its nest of tissue paper and delivered to its wearer.
Tu sum, there are two classes of clients who really interest the crea. for of clothes. One is the perfectly selfeonselous woman, she who Knows unerringly what she wants and what is becoming to her. The other ix the undecided character, who fails to understand her own problems, either from a want of education in that important subject—herself—or from sheer indifforfence to her appearance. 'These last* may be guided like children, and they are attractive, it isa' great' pleasure to dress them, to improve" their appearance and to clothe them suitably for the social circle in* which they move, whether Marti "modern, sumptuous. Tore is another in-ina small pan; add sugar and salt nothing goes right, and client, ince of the enormous satisfaction led with a lid before placing in saleswoman and fitter become tired, that there is to be found in the table and and bored, bored, because because every every profession profession of dressmaker dressmaker.
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