Miss Mary Garrison Seeking Chinese Inispiration Amerien is all out of ideas—at) least as far as textile designing is concerned and so Miss Mary Garrison, one of the cleverest. textile designers in New York, has come: to China secking inspiration from ancient oriental art and. every-day native scenes.
Miss Garrison arrived here the other day to visit an old friend, Miss Emily Hahn, young novelist This is the frst time she has made a trip out of the country for this kind of work and if she is successful next season's dress fabrics may have Chinese. themes as their base, although, according to Miss Garrison they will be so modernized that nelther the foreigners nor the Chinese will be able to recognize them, Miss Garrison, who designed "crazy quilt." a refreshing new pattern used ili all cloth and linoleum and which quite took the designing world by storm last spring does not know just where she gels her ideas. They seem to spring from the very air at
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