Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-05-22
Tailors Who Make Mems Clothes for
Women.

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a coat to tailor on the east side of
town somewhere along Fourth avenue,
and asked the owner, who was sitting
on bench in the window with his legs
crossed under him, If he could nnAke
the coat 10 fit and have itdone the next
day. The tailor was very poor. He
had his rent coming due in q day or 30,
and nothing wherewith to payif. He
responded with alacrity, altered the
coat to his customer satisfaction, and
received his pay. The next day the
gentleman's wife appeared with q
riding habit which she wished fitted to
her more snugly taan it fitted then.
The tailor did Che work and the fair Gus
toner was delighted. 81 wonder il
you could make me cloth-jacket, ]
she said. The tailor, who really wanted
to pay his rent, responded Immediately
and emphatically in the affirmative.
he made the jacket, and his new GUS
toner was again very much pleased.
She got him to make her costume, and
when this was finished to her satisfac-
ton she told him she would send In her
husband to have q vest made or pair
OF cloth uppers for his low shoes, and
ne would then pay the tailor the entire
bill TaiIor.made costumes for ladies
have been known in France and England
for some time. but this is the way in
which the business was started here.
The jubhant wifes who had gotten her
bill paid for dresses and jackets, lost
no-time in adv ert sing her new plan to
her friends. The ladies' tailor was in
undas ed with large orders from wives
and daughters, and small orders from
their masculine retinue. He m de up
the clothes, sent vests and trousers and
other small packages home with large
bills and delivered costumes and braid
ed Jackets without any bills at all, and
prospered exceedingly. He paid his
rent and took more commodious quar-
tiers. To-day that tailor is worth $780,
O)D, owns country seat. and visits his
establishment in the city for a few hours
each day. He was made by the ladies
of New York, and they may well be
proud of their handiwOrk.
Several fashionable tailors have been
in the business. and gone out of it, and
there are few in it o-day. Those who
went out of it, generally after one years
experience. said that they had lost more
money and more temper in short time
than they could afford to do. 1t was
more difficult to cut out a garment to
a lady IS shape. and their Ingenuity in
pointing out alleged defects after fair
fit had been accomplished was more
than the ordinary tailor can stand,
just as there are some able LAWYERS
who can obstruct the entire course of a
perfectly leg innate cross-exam ma.
ton by "a series of specious and
weil-sustained objections, SO there
are many ladies in New York who can
go q loag way toward convincing q
cutter that he knows nothing about his
business. If the customer really wants
the costume she has ordered she does
not keep up her OBJ ections very long,
but if her mind has changed since the
order was gwen, she can find sufficient
fault to Justify her. in her own mind,
throwing the garments on the makers
hands, and she gives color of truth to
her criticisms by lacing tighter at one
time than she does at another, by wear
ing different corsets and different under
clothing altogether and by dozens of
other devices which need not be re-
peated. Tbs sort of thing usually
drives the tailor half era Y, and he gets
out of the business of ladies' costumes
Those who are in it now are learned in
all the devious windings of the femi-
nine mind, and are prepared to meet
them at every turn. In one Fifth ave-
nue. establishment where riding habits
are made, as well as costumes, the
wooden figure of horse stands in the
salesroom. and it was explained that so
many customers who went away, after
having fitted their habits and were quite
satisfied. came back to say that they did
not fit when they got on horseback. The
wooden horse was then put in. ladies'
were invited to send down their saddles,
and they were fitted to complete a Cen
trail Park picture that would STIR en-
thusiasm among admirers and delight
the hearts Of artists. ae3
The most successful of these ladies' |
tailors are those who have associated |
with them q practical ladies' dress
maker. He not only contributes a
of skirts, which is valuable, |
but he brings to the business years of
in dealing with the fair sex.
without which the business is bound to |
be a failure, outside of those cases in |
which man may have gift in this d.
rection. The goods used for these cos
tunes are made especially for the pur-
pose. They are lighter than the goods |
used on mems clothes, and are much |
heavier than any sold in stores for Ia
dies dresses. The cost of the goods is
all the way from $3 to 80 yard, the
goods being fifty-six inches wide. The
costumes are lined with silk costing 81 |
q yard, and the price paid is from $50 |
TO $3.50 each. There is no doubt that |
they contribute to the beauty of the fe-
male figure and serve to soften it and |
conceal any want of this desirable quail
ity. Angular outlines are rounded out
with the smallest display of padding,
and the cunning shears of the cutter
cheat the casual eye by o slight rear
rangement of the lines, so that very
high shoulders lose their length and
very sloping shoulders are built up into
substantial and attractive. |
1t is stated that the more expensive of
these costumes are absolute mavvels of
and are not to be matched
IN all the world. Workmen here turn
put these superbly finished garments
becs,,se Americans are more willing
than the people of any other nation to
pay nigh price for the best work. A
lalhi0nabIe tailor recently assured the
writer that English jou neymen tailors
work far Estter here than they have
ever done in England, and frequently,
With the assistance of their families,
earn $0Osa week. He added that the
best.e0de Po6IS Of London. ever turned
put wasrip erior to the worst of first !
class tailor here, and the speaker was
an Englishman.-N. YsMaa and Ez-
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