Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-27

duced to this: When one orders paDtaloons
''to order" from ones tailor they are trousers;
bought ready made they are properly dcsg-
mated as pants"
More men wear pants than own up to the
fact
Furthermore, q man who has good legs
really good legs-is likely to look as we'll in
pants as in trousers; they apt to be equally
well made, and he fits them, instead of re-
qulring them to fit him. A man with bad legs,
and they rather the rule than the excep-
ton, IL always complaining OF the tit OF his
pantaloous.
Through certain modern developments in the
business OF constructing pantaloons, the
pants" and the "trousers" have in q manner
approached one another, rs it were.
Don't you admire me bags?" The STAR man
heard Puppkins ask ut the club.
Dear boy, they are immense" responded his
friend Noodles "Who made emp
Had 'em built in New York" says Puppkins
languidly. 'The tailor was id expensive,
but one must wear the proper thing, you know.
and bad pair OF bags will ruin q man. repu-
tation for dress. never mind the cost whom
it comes to clothes; it's moro dignihed, any,
way. to owe a big amount than a small one."
Now. the fact is that Puppkins had had that
pair of pantaIoons made to order, but it was on
u Wholesale basis. and he had paid SPOT cash
for them His was a mere affoctation OF glded
insolvency, inappropriate to clerk III the
Department of Justice. Because il is the swoil
thing not TO pay your tailor, it is not implied
that government hireling is to expect credit
from the man who yields the awful scepter of
fashionable authority called the yardstick.
PANTALooNs BY THE THOUSAND.
Puppkins' pantaloons were made by firm
that manufactures p, 600 pairs of pants every
week. Each year it turns out one million and
quarter pairs OF such pants, not to mention
about 10000 coats and an equal number of
waistcoats. Pants, however, are the speciality
of this concern.
When a firm makes "a, 900 pairs Of pants each
week it can afford to manufacture them for
comparatively little money. This particular
firm has producing establishment in great
city not a thousand miles away, where all the
clothing is turned out Everything is con-
Quoted after a business method that is like
clockwork. Forty branch shops in all the i'm
portant cities of the Union solicit custom On
| an average each shop obtains 100 orders for
pants per day. or 600 per week. This makes
24oOO pairs per week for the forty branches, or
1 ,248, 900 pairs for the year.
All Of these pants, az well as the other gar
ments, are made in the distant city atoremen-
toned. The instant that an order is obtained
by one. of the forty branches a letter is sent
of conveying the order to the main establish
ment. Suppose man should be urgently
anxious for a pair of pants. not being able to
so on. without some such equipment for fear
OF exciting remark. In such a case the branch
shop to which he applies telegraphs, at the
customers expense, to the main establishment
The telegram takes somewhat this form:
''Cut at once lot 1243 49, "a, 90, 81, SO, &C. I"
The number Of the 'lot' designates the
cloth to be cut; the other numbers are tho
measurements.
At once upon receiving the telegram the
clerk in charge Of the business department
hands over q corresponding order to the man
in charge OF the cloths. The man in
charge of the cloths measures out tho stuff re-
quirod by the order for the carmen: specified
and given to the head cutter. by tho latter or
OF his assistants the cloth is cut into proper
shape, according to the measurements, after
which it is passed to tho upper floors OF the
factory, where it is made up. 1t takes one day
to make a pair OF pants, at the end of which 1t
is dispatched by express to the branch
| shop and delivered to the customer. Thus the
| latter can get pair Of pantaioons made for
him and delivered within forty-eight hours by
| measure. Such Is the system by which 1900
| pairs of pants a week are turned out. Producing
them in such numbers il is not surprising that u
| great concern like the one described should be
| able TO make garments really worth the proud
| designation OF trousers for the small price of
| S6.25 apiece made to order from the best
materials. These, it Is true, are dude garments,
half that price or less being usually the charge
| for pants. But why should one buy even these
| cheaper ''garnitures for the limbs" when
pants" for really truly ''gonts" are advertised
this day At 10 cents pair on Pennsylvania
| avenue?