Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
MIsFIT CLOTHING.
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MiSFiT CLOTHING.
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The trade in misfit clothing in New
,.rk is getting to be quite an extern
~ business. Until three years ago
wos unknown or carried on in such
mall way as to escape notice.
...nn now it is but little advertised,
the demand from the initiated
En11v equals the supply. The business
~ his city is controlled by two or
,s,ce houses that deal in misfts ex-
e1usively. The dealers have contracts
Nth all the large tailoring establish
,s,cnts by which every misft suit or
uarment is at once taken. To the
E"akcr the goods are almost a dead
1nss, and they are therefore sold for a
lory low price. In this way the deal
ars are enabled to sell them for about
half the original fancy price charged
i,. the tailors, and at the same time to
make q very handsome profit.
There are tricks in all trades, and
the proprietors of some ready-made
clothing houses, becoming aware of
the growing proportions of the mis-
1T trade, have established what they
are pleased to call a .'misft depart
%,nent," in which cheaply made clothes
[of shoddy material, but with a style
about them that easily deceives the
,nwary, are palmed off as misfits. The
deception is even carried so far as to
sew on a fraudulent makers tag, and
10 furnish the trousers with buttons
having. the name of a fashionable
tailor amped upon them.
Whether it is that the tailors of
Gotham are more careful and make
better fitting clothes than Chicago tall
ors, or whether New Workers car less
il their apparel is baggy, wrinkled or
,cant, is a question, but at any rate the
mistts in Chicago outnumber ten to
one those in New York. The newspa-
ners there contain more advertisements
Of misfit dealers than they do for genu.
inc clothing houses.
.Of course they are not genuine"
said Il dealer to a Herald reporter, re-
ferring to the trade in Western cities.
ut is only the result of a very sharp
competition" He was standing in a
very dingy store that was filled on all
sides with piles of v%ari-colored and
many shaped coats, vests and trousers.
Sombre looking dress coats were hang
inc side by side with snowy military
uniforms and gorgeous smoking jack
winter listers and striped cotton coats.
Dark getaways were mingled with loud
checks that suggested strongly the race
track.
"Most of our patrons are theatrical
Deoplc," continued the dealer as he
.stroked a ~light-colored, short-skirted
overcoat, that bore a London tailor's
name. ave are very apt to get suits
that are somewhat too striking for or
binary wear, but that are just, the thing
for the stage. This brocaded silk
dressing gown is going out with a z
eO-S' company for the old mans make
up. sold it to the actor this morning
for Sl5. 1t would cost about $50 to
have it made new. 1t is an unstable
article, you see, and l have to let it GO
for a merely nominal price. The mar
for whom it was made never called fol
it"
'What sort of clothes do you get the
most OFF"
at will seem a little odd to you, ]
presume, but tailors seem to have less
luck with dress suits than anything
else. Partly because a dress suit is
very hard TO altar from its peculiar
style, and partly because men are more
particular about the fit than they are
with other clothes. Nothing shows up
so bad as a dress suit if it is a little Oft.
Here is one of the new style, you see,
that was brought in the other day
The dealer drew forth from a pile 8
plum colored garment with a cutaway
front. Then followed a lowered satir
vest and a pair of light colored knee
breeches, with black silk gaitels and
silver buckles.
The young man that they were
made for couldn't stomach them wher
they were completed. They fitted hin
all right, but his calves didn't light
up we'll in knickerbockers. He padded
them out once and wore the suit to
reception, but he got guyed SO he wa:
only too glad to shake it. He tried tt
get the tailor to take it back. but tina
wouldn't work. They told him tt
come to me, and l bought them for s
song. He looked sort of Disguised
with life, but he seemed glad to gel
rd of the things at any price. don
think that style is gong to take we'll.
The New York shank is too ungainly.'
Don't you find great difficulty il
getting the clothes to fit any one?'
Now, there is another rathe'
curious thing. Have you ever noticed
how often other peoples clothes fitted
You better than those you had madcfo:
yourself? Well, it's a fact. 1t seem
as though tailors ought to take thu
measure of B when they want to fit A
We don't do as much altering a. yol
would think necessary. People obiec
10 1t. They prefer to put on a suittha
Its them the first time rather than TAX
any chances. If there is not n tina
suits them they tell us to hunt up on
that does. We have got any number o
Such orders"
DO you deal in secondhand cloth
ing at ALP"
IA very little. There are severa
large houses in the city whose bushes