The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10
mrsFITs FOR MEN.

Misfit5 are partly fact partly an
advertisement remarked the clothing
dealer. at isn't a very original idea,
we tailors borrowing it from the carpet
men, with whom it has been feature
for many years There are insists and
rnisfts. Sometimes a cutter makes q
serious mistake, and a coat or trousers
cannot be used by the customer; but
the mistake must be a very bad one
which a good tailor can't fix up Misfts
Of this sort are hard things to dispose Of
as you have to wait long time before
you'll get buyer to suit A much com-
moner misfit is where fellow. a stran-
ger, orders q suit, pays a deposit and
goes away aud never comes back. The
courts say you've got to hold it reason
able time, and then sell il for what it
viii bring. This happens much oftener
than you think. Sometimes it's man
who is tight, sometimes its gambler or
crook who's made what they call a
winner, but more often it's a visitor to
the city vino suddenly finds he's spent
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enough to reach home with Now and
then man of this kind VIII come in,
make clean breast Of it, and want US to
divide the deposit"
do you ever divide:"
mot too often. Surprising man
orders a SIS suit, and pays SIP on ae-
count If he comes back and pays the
balance our profit is, say, Sc. II he
don't come, and we sell it as a misfit we
don't get more than SIC or s1s for it,
and then have to wait some time. /
could generally afford to pay him 50 or
81 back and call it square. Not many
do come back, however, and they are
chiefly gamblers who are out OF luck,
and have got to have some money"
"Why are 50 many insists OF queer
colors2"
That's another point. Every year
there are some enterprising tailors or
manufacturing houses that will start new
styles. Sometimes they make hit and
do very we'll One Broadway house last
year got hold Of neat plaid pattern and
sold | don't know how much of it After
an article catches the public fancy,
especially if it's imported, it takes time
for rival house to get the same makeup
goods into thenarket. But just as often
the venture fails, and then we misfit
dealers buy up the unstable stock. Now
there's a good green and-red suit which
cost S1s to manufacture. The colors
we're too loud, and nobody would buy it.
got is very low, and am selling it for
SIS. And SO far as style and quality go
its as good as a s25 suit. Sometimes
%, we buy at auctions and assignees'
'ales, only We don't often get good
chances for bargains"
Then insists are all new clothes2"
"They ought to be, and all here are,
lint some dealers buy secondhand
clothes slightly worn fix them up, and
fhen sell them as new. There are great
many swells who wear a suit only short
ime and then give it to one of their SER
wants. A suit like that is almost as good
as new. Clean them, sponge and press
them, and only tailor can tell them
from brand new article.
There's one particular about misfits
They demoralize customer II he can't
get something already made to suit him,
he won't order anything substantial, but
wants bargain, something cheap and
snowy Before I went into insists 1 had
a number of customers that bought fine
imported goods. But nowadays it's all
changed, and all they care for is cheap
article. There amt SO much money in
the business as in the regular trade, bu t
it's good deal livelier''