The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-08-16
h EaARDlNG Pock EIs.
Dinicult Thing for TatlOrs and Dress
Makers to Handle We'll.

Dinicult Things for TatlOrs and Dress
Makers to Handle We'll. S .
The present pocket, both for ladies'
and gentlemen, is an extrsmel y dif1c ult
feature to make thoroughly WE'LL both
in dress-making and in tailoring, says
the London Telegraph. There is story
of an English couturiere who thought
/ that she had all but perfected her
self in the art Of dress-ma king, but who
took trip to Paris in order to go3
through a final course of instruction in
the atelier Of celebrated robe artistic.
She paid handsome fee for years
instruction, and after signing articles
she was put to what seemed to her the
frivolous task OF inserting a pocket In a
dress. When she had finished her task
madame shook her head with kindly
gravity and told her articled pupil that
the mystery OF pocket-making had yet
to be learned. It is a fact that the de-
voted student was kept for six whole
months toiling at pockets; at the expira-
ton of that period she was permitted to
try her hand at sleeves, and she re-
turned to England sadder but wiser
seamstress, destined, however, it is to
be hoped, to blossom into a court dress
maker Of the grandest type
AS with ladies' pockets so is it in de-
gree with those of gentlemen. Man
kind desires it's trousers pockets, its
coat 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 unob-
trusjve. The Emperor Alexander l., of
Russia, when he vas in Paris, was de-
sirous 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. 81 am sure, y replied the 'culot-
tie,' t.that should not know where to
put pockets unless cut them in your
Maiesty's flesh" The Car was more
amused than angered by the explana-
tion. '.But the other one, Napoleon,
he pursued, what did he do for breech
es pockets?'' ellis aldes-de-camp were
his pockets replied with quiet digni ty
the small-clothes artist.
Later breeches-makers may have
thought out some means of maintaining
symmetry while providing pockets in
buckskins or cords, but, speaking broad
ly, the resources of the tailor are taxed
to the very utmost in designing pockets
which shall hold what a gentleman re-
quires without pushing themselves into
Objectionable prominence. There are a
great many things that we are bound to
find room for in our pockets. Happily,
we are absolved from the necessity of
carrying revolvers beneath our gar
ments, but it frequently happens that a
small silver flask, holding some form
of alcohol, occupies modest place in a
travellers pocket, and of course he
must have due receptacles for his cigar
case, his keys, his handkerchief, and. it
he be we'll stricken in the vale Of years,
his spectacles. 1t is only the entirely
competent and :. long-experienced coat
artist who knows how these pockets
shall be placed and what shall be thei.
exact breadth and depth. Thus to the
practiced sartorial eye a breast-pocket
may really appear ridiculous 1t may
be the eighth of an inch too high, too
low, too narrow or too broad. It may
be 'stoo straight in the fore part, OF
Just hairs breadth too much askew for
symmetry or for comfort; but it is =
pity that the estimable artists in coats
can not settle their estimable little diff
ference without bringing she refine
noants Of their craft into the law courts