Setting the Style (1914)
When Mrs. Vandergilt gets her ticket for the horse show, she decides that she must have a startling gown to wear for the occasion. Disgusted with the designers' efforts, she wonders if she should give up the idea of going to the ball and simply disappear until the event is over. She calls her footman and gives him the tickets, telling him to take them to a friend of hers to use during her absence. The footman gets into a brawl and loses the tickets in the mix-up. When he returns to the house, he is afraid to tell his mistress,, so he decides to say nothing. The tickets are picked up by street-cleaner Finnegan; with no way to discover the tickets' owner, he and his wife decide to go to the horse show. The big day arrives and the Finnegans don their "Sunday Best" and are very much in evidence. They create quite the sensation; the society people look at them with curiosity, thinking that they are representing the Vandergilts. Mrs. Vandergilt, who has been away in Europe, returns home to find that all the styles have changed in her absence--everyone is dressing a la Finnegan. She realizes that the Finnegans have become the arbiters of fashion. The fashion papers are filled with cuts showing how Mrs. Finnegan looked at the horse show. Mrs. Vandergilt purchases a new wardrobe and joins the procession dressed a la Finnegan.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| George D. Baker | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| John Bunny | |
| Josie Sadler | |
| Louise Beaudet | |
| Cortland Van Deusen |
