The Rugby news. (Rugby, Morgan County, Tenn.) 1890-189?, 1891-02-14
SWINDLING TAilORS.
Selling "Ready- Made" Suits for Clothing
T, fl,f,-.4, Made to Order. 4 81"

SWINDLiNG TAilORS.
Selling "Ready- Made" Suits for Clothing
=, fag yr Made to Order. 4
A system of contemplate swindling
is practiced in a 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-
ais 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 ''to order at ex-
tremely low rates. The price is always,
attached, and many man is enticed ito
enter and have clothing made ''to order"
by the combined, allurements Of the
'made-up article and the cheap price. -
Il a Tribune reporter was victim the
other day. Seeing coat handsomely
made up in show case, to which was
attached a card reading, Goat and vest
to order $16," he entered the store and
! asked the proprietor if 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.
4 He was assured that.to accomplish this
was the easiest matter in the world,
whereupon the reporter selected ma
Iferial fora suit to cost, made to order,
S24, 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 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 cer-
tain day. At. the trying7on 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, nay friend" said the tai
lor, '.itwill 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 it
the next day, and just then noticed that
, the coat was a three-betton cutaway.
nj | How Is that?' he asked. fsThis was
a four button coat when,1 tried it on be.
? FORE "
''You are mistaken, my friend" was
the solemn reply, ''it was alwaysa three'
button coat" On the follow day the. re
: porter called again and found the coat
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 toe
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. pocke
n in the. trousers the name of well
q known firm of wholesale manufacturers
! A quiet little investigation the next da,
showed that he had bought ready
made suit for a considerable advanc,
:. over the price charged by the retailer
s of such garments, and pursuing his in
a quiry, he learned that the tailor he EN-
d ployed as well as many others, do no
l. make clothing t. order at all The,
d keep line of goods corresponding t.
# the clothes made up by manufacturer
J. for the retailers of ready-made clothing
S and when they get a customer, the,
d take his measure and then obtain at
/. reduced price from the manufacturer,
e suit or garment, most nearly CORE
v spending to the measurements. The
IS also have as "blind" lot of cloth Gu
: up so that the pieces can be BLASTED
# together to answer for the ''trying on
IS process. If the cloth is not exactly lik
l. that ordered, the customer is not hkel
e to detect the difference during the try
ing on, when the garment looks as niue
ir like a coat, for instance, as it does lik
s a night shirt.
v y AS these fake custom tailors buy
@ large number of suits from the manr
5, facturers, they get the clothing cheaply
" and thus reap heavy profit. The gal
ment in the showcase is never dupl
d Gated as to fit, and seldom as to quality
D. There are several such stores dow1
rs town, and the young man should as
1T for references when he gets into on
D. where he is stranger.-N. Y. Tribun,
=, The Popular Notion of Liberty.
~ To do what one likes with ones owl
- and to have IS much as possible of one
. own to Do what one likes with--that
~ ~ take it, is the ideal of life usually 5,
" " before themselves by those who al
- commonly accounted men of unde
's standing. That is the liberty wher
s with we are made free by the mucl
20 boasted civilization of the nineteent
- century, which has so largely conyerte