The East Side hovers over it as Fifth Avenue has done over the original.

The very shop window, where it is displayed, is dressed and painted and lighted in imitation of the uptown shop.

The same process goes on inland.

This same gown will travel its downward path from New York westward, until the Grand St.creation arrives in some cheap and gay mining or factory town.

From start to finish it is imitation, and on this imitation vast industries are built--imitations of silk, of velvet, of lace, of jewels.
These imitations, cheap as they are, are a far greater extravagance, for their buyers, than the original model was for its buyer, for the latter came from that class where money does not count--while the former is of a class where every penny counts.