Demorest Reception

Event Information

Venue(s):
Demorest Fashion Emporium

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 July 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Sep 1869

Program Details

No time given. Ellen Louise Demorest is credited as the inventor of the tissue-paper dress pattern, which she mass-produced and sold at her shop on Broadway. She based many of them on French fashions.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
"Home, sweet home"
aka Home sweet home
Composer(s): Bishop
Text Author: Payne

Citations

1)
Review: New-York Times, 08 September 1869, 2.

“Quite a demonstration was made yesterday by the young ladies of Mme. Demorest’s establishment, which was handsomely decorated for the occasion of her arrival from Europe by the Minnesota. Numerous and elegant baskets of fruit and flowers were presented, poetic sentiments were read, and ‘Home, Sweet Home’ beautifully sung, accompanied by music.

“In her reply to their greetings, Mme. Demorest thanked them all heartily for the evidences of their affection for her, and said that in all her wanderings abroad she had seen nothing so good or so attractive as she found it at home.”