Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-11-07
WHERE TO PUT POCKETS.
Napoleon the Great Used Those of Ills
Aides-de-Camp.

WHERE TO PUT POCKETS.
Napoleon the Great Used Those OF Ills
Aides-eie-Camp.
The present pocket, both for ladies
and gentlemen, is an extremely diff
cult feature to make thoroughly we'll,
both in dressmaking and tailoring, says
the London Telegraph. There is a
story of an English couturiere who
thought that she had all but perfected
herself in the art of dressmaking, but
who took a journey to Paris in order to
go through final course of instruction
in the ateiier of a celebrated robe ar
tiste. She paid handsome fee for a
years instruction, and after signing
articles, she was put what seemed to
her the frivolous task of inserting q
pocket in dress.
When she had finished her task
Madame" shook her head with kind y
gravity and told her articled pupil that
the mystery of pocket-making had yet
to be learned. 1t is fact that the de-
voted student was kept for six whole
months toi!ing at pockets. Attic eXpi-
ration of that period she was permitted
TO try her hand at sleeves, and she re-
burned to England saa.ler but wiser
seamstress, destined, however, Ills to
be hoped, to blossom into court dress
maker of the grandest type.
AS with ladies' pockets, so is it in g
degree with those of gentlemen. Man
kind desires its trousers pockets, its
cont and overcoat and vest pockets to
be conveniently placed, easy OF access
and not given to getting unsewn. To
be perfect they should be entirely un-
obtrusive. The Emperor Alexander I.
OF Russia. when he was in Paris, was
DESTROYS of having his neither garments
made by famous "culottier" who had
supplied Napoleon with his buckskins.
"But the pockets?" said the Emperor
when the tailor had finished measuring
him. I am sure," replied the "culot-
tier, that I should not know where to
put pockets. unless cut them in Your
Ma: osty's flesh" The Gar was moro
amused than angered by the oxl,lana-
ton. "Eut the other one-Napoleon,
he pursued, "what did he do for
breaches pockets?" Ills aides-ae.
camp were his pockets" replied with
quiet dignity tho small clothes artist.
Later breeches-makers may have
thought out some means of maintaining
tile symmetry while providing pockets
iii buckskins or cords; but. speaking
broadly, the resources of the tailor are
taxed to the very utmost in designing
pockets which shalt hold what gentle.
man requires without pushing them
into objectionable prominence. There
are great many things that we are
bound to find room for in our pockets.
Happily, we are absolved from the ne
cessity of carrying revolvers beneath
our garments; but it frequently hap
pens that o small silver flask, holding
some form of alcohol, occupies mod
est place in q travellers pocket, and, of
course, he must have due receptacles
for his cigar case, his keys, his hand
kerchief, and, if he be we'll stricken in
the vale of years, his spectacles. It is
only the entirely competent and long
experienced coat artist who knows how
these pockets shall be placed, aud what
shall be their exact breadth and depth
Thus, to the practiced sartorial eve, o !
breast pocket may really appear "ridic- |
Nous 1t may be the eighth of an inch
too high, too low, too narrow, or too
broad. 1t may "too straight in the fore
Fart" or just hairs breadth too much
askew for symmetry or for comfort;
but it is o pity that the estimable artists
in coats cannot settle their little differ
ences without bringing the refnements
OF their craft into the law courts.