Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-12-21


what BECOMES OF the Old Clothes.
! E. The LONDON Times has the following curious
article. shosing what becomes or the old clothes
picked up in London
Those that are intended to remain in this
country have TO be tutOred and transformed.
:, The . clebbaer the revive" and the
" translator" lay hands upon them. fhe duty
OF the clobberer' Is to patch. TO sew uD, and
to restore as Far as possible the garments TO
their pristine appearance: black cloth garments
pass into the hands of the 4" revivers," who
iuyenase seedy black goods, and for the moment
). a,aI<e shefn hook good as new The +" trans
IAtor's" duty Il Of higher order; bis Office is to
transform ole garment into sBother-the skirts
of a csst-of coat being the least worn part.
make capital waistcoats aud tunics for children,
&c Iipts are revived in a still more wonderful
manner; they cut down to take out the
grease marks, re lined, and appear in the shops
ike new ones. The streets surrounding the old
clothes market are full OF shops where these
cobbered" and - revived" goods exposed
for sale ana really stranger to the trade would
not know but that they were new goods. There
is a department OF the market also dedicated to
old clothes. male and female. " clobbered" and
- revived &c.
\, IL Is = touching sight 10 see the class OF per-
sons who frepsent the mems market and turn
over the seedy black garments that are doing
their best 70 put on good appearance-the toll
worn clerks. who for some social reason
q pected TO apparel themselves in black and the
equally care worn members OF the clerical pro
fession. chiefly curates. whose meagre stipends do
not permit of the extravaganza OF new suits Of
clothes The ladies' market is vast wardrobe
of silk dresses; bat in we TO believe the sales
Woman, The NATIONS OF England are more thrifty
-..ft than We gave them credit tor Servants come
here 70 purchase. siri No indeed sir; ladies
worth hundreds Of POUNDS" was the reply We got
to our inquiries as TO the class of purchasers.
Black cloth clothes that are too far gone to be
"clobsereaY and revived" are always sent
abroad % be cut I'd 20 make caps France takes
the best OF these old clothes for this purpose.
The Innings are stripped out, and in this condition
they are admitted duty free old rags. Russia
and Poland, where caps seem to be universally
worn by The working population. are content
with still more threadDare garments to be cut up
for ths purpose. The great bulk OF our cast of
clothes of all kinds, however. find their way to
Two markets-Ireland and Holland. The old
clothes bags OF the collectors may, in fact be
said tosbe emptied out IN the land of Erin, far
the ordinary order of clothes 90, while TO
Holland only special articles of apparel are ex
ported
; - Sipgalarly enough, the destination of the red
tunics OF the whole British infantry is the chests
OF the sturdy Dutchman. The sleeves cut
= of. and they made 20 button in a double
/. breasted fashion: thus remodeled. they are worn
next to the skin like flannel wastcoat by all
sl.careful Dutchmea among the laboring classes
81 The Irish chiefly favor corduroys, and We sus-
sspect the worn out legs Of British pantaloons OF
This material are cut of and converted into
breeches for Pat Our readers Will perhaps have
noticed the special svidity the dealers in old
clothes evince for AL kinds of regimenttls full
dress liveries. volunteers uniforms, beadles'
coats, &c. One of the largest dealers in Lon
don in these SNOWY dresses once said to US, see
ing guardsman going along the street,
thousand 10 one that coat comes into my hands ="
A lord mayors footman's full dress livery is
viewed by these gentry with wo6sh eyes. These
are the great prizes OF the PROFESSIONALISM their
barbarc splendors are destined for special mar
Kettle south coast of Africa. We ourselves
saw an assortment of well preserved liyeries of
the Der 60 she prondest throne in the world. just
being packed for exportation TO the grand desti
nation of all fine liveries We have just mention
ed IL should be some s0lace To the parish bea-
die that his clothes, instead of descending in the
social scale like those OF ordinary civilians are
destined 10 flame upon the back of auto
GRAFT who holds the lives OF thousands of men at
his disposal instead of only being the emblems
of terror to poor parish boys.
The vast majority of the scarlet coats of our
officers that are little worn find their way to
the great annaal fair at Leipsic. There is a be-
scarlet cloth is the cuffs aud acings of the civil
officials IN TIE Russian government. However
this NAV be. the fact of second hand regimentals
fading their Nay 10 the great German fair is I'M
doubted. The pepper and-sslt greatcoats of our
infantry 80 20 our agricultural districts and TO
the Cape, but the heavier and more valuable ar
tillery eloaks fi1d their way to Holland, and that
country and Ireland absorb between them the
easi-of clothing Of the police There is one odd
item Of old clothes that has singular history.
There still certain class 10 the community
addicted 10 the use Of silk velvet waistcoats.
After sdorBing the respectable corporation Of
some provincial grocer until he Is thoroughly
tired OF It, what does our reader think is It's ult-
mate destination-the pate of some street Ger
mar or Polish Jew ~ -
LIN Obedience TO tine Rsbbinicai law, IL is con
,idered right by some of the more Conscientious
Hebrews TO go uncovered. and these second hand
vsIstcOsts are boueht M 10 make skull caps for
their use
But old clothes, after they have served the
purposes os two or three classes OF society. are
yet far from closing their career when they have
seen thes worst they take sllsaether new lease
OF existence When osd clothes are too bad for
anything else they are still good enough for
shocdy 49, Daago Baley Dewsbury and
Leeds have been described as the grand centers
of wooden rags-the tatterdenalon capitals into
which are drawn all the greasy frowsy. Cast-ofi
clotles OF Europe, aud whence issue the pilot
cloths, The petershATns, the beavers the tSlmas.
the ChesterfeldS aad the mohairs in which our
modern handles disport themselves. The old
rags after being reduced % the condition OF wool
BY enormous toothed wheels. are mixed with a
varying amount Of fresh wool and the whole is
thessottd p nto the fpbrics we have men
toned. which nov have tie OF fashion
IL ~ nov estimsted that ssfoddy and mungo
supply lie materials FOR third Of the wooden
manufactures Of iins eoaBlts. here Is a grand
transformation No msn car say that the mate
rails OF The coat he j. wearing has not been al
ready on the bask.of some greasy beggar In
one corner OF The "aninlsl products department. >
in the South Keasihgson Museum. the visitor
can see hundreds of specimens Of this shoddy and
uungo-a perfect resurrection OF the old clothes
from every country IN Europe. The cast of