The tailors worked night and day. The pile of gold at one end of the worktable disappeared as they wove it piece by piece into the invisible fabric which they wove on their loom. The tailors, of course, were running up huge expenses. Weaving an invisible fabric is very hard work. They ate well and slept well and had lots of women, and sometimes men.
Swindling tailors have large libidos.
This, they put all on the credit card of the governor's country. Finally, they announced a delivery date. A holiday was proclaimed. The people came forth to see the governor's new clothes, which they had heard much about, and which they had gone hungry to pay for, and for which their children would also pay all their lives. The governor donned his non-existent veskin, pantaloons, socks, shoes and robe and strode forth onto the streets of his capitol.