The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-02-14
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Selling "Ready- Made" suits for CLOTH
NInho TO Order.

Settling "Ready- Made" suits for Clothing
Made TO Order.
system of contemplate swindling
Is practiced in few of the tailor shops
in the lower part of the city. Some of
these shops have gaudily decked win
dows, showing great variety Of materi-
als skillfully displayed, and have also
little glass show cases just outside their
doors, in which are garments neatly
made and placarded to the effect that
such articles are made ito order" at eX-
tremely low rates. The price is always
attached, and many a man is enticed to
enter and have clothing made 'to order"
by the combined allurements of tho
made-up article and the cheap price.
A Tribune reporter was victim the
other day. Seeing coat handsomely
made up in a show case, to which was
attached card reading, Goat and vest
to order S16," he entered the store and
asked the proprietor if u coat and waist
coat could be made for him to look as
well as those in the case, and at the
same time fit his form satisfactorily.
He was assured that to accomplish this
was the easiest matter in the world,
whereupon the reporter selected ma
terial for a suit to cost, made to order,
So4, little less than half as much as he
had been accustomed to pay uptown,
but the coat in the showcase did look
extremely well. His measure was taken
and q few days later he called to try on
the coat. 1t did not fit him at all, but
the tailor made several chalk marks on
the unfinished garment and said that it
would be all right and finished on Ger.
tain day. At the trying-on stage the
coat was four button cutaway.
On the day the suit was to be done the
reporter called for it, and proceeded to
try on the coat again. 1t was too loose
in the back and the collar did not fit the
neck, while the sleeves were too short.
Don't worry, my friend" said the tai
lor, 'it will be all right tomorrow when
you come for it, or shall send my boy
home with it, eh?"
The customer said he would call for il
the next day, and just then noticed that
the coat was three-button cutaway.
How is that?" he asked "This was
| a four button coat when tried it on be.
fore"
"You are mistaken, my friend" was
the solemn reply, lit was always three
button coat" On the follow day the re-
porter called again and found the coat
a better fit, but still far from being
what coat ''made to order" should be
Wishing to wear the suit that night, he
decided to take it, and have any neces
sary changes made in future The
trousers were no better fit, being toc
short in the legs. Still he was in g
hurry and the tailor promised to make
everything right at some future time
Looking the clothes over that night, the
reporter found under the fob pocket
in the trousers the name of well
known firm of wholesale manufacturers
A quiet little investigation the next day
showed that he had bought ready
made suit for a considerable advance
over the price charged by the retailers
of such garments, and pursuing his in
quiry, he learned that the tailor he EN-
ployed as well as many others, do no
make clothing to order at all. They
keep line of goods corresponding t.
the clothes made up by manufacturers
for the retailers of ready-made clothing
and when they get a customer, they
take his measure and then obtain at {
reduced price from the manufacturer,
suit or garment, most nearly CORE
| spending to the measurements. They
also have as blind" lot of cloth cu
up so that the pieces can be blasted
together to answer for the trying on
process. If the cloth is not exactly lik,
that ordered, the customer is not likely
to detect the difference during the try
ing on, when the garment looks as mucl
like coat, for instance, as it does like
night shirt.
AS these flake" custom tailors buy
large number of suits from the manu-
facturers, they get the clothing cheaply
and thus reap a heavy profit. The gar
ment in the showcase is never dupli
Gated as to fit, and seldom as to quality
There are several such stores down
town, and the young man should asl
for references when he gets into on
| where he is a Stranper-N Y Tribune