The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-26


inconspicuousness dear to all educated
and sensible women, as well as the be-
eomingness longed for by all varieties OF
women.
But although all sorts of silk and satin
and serge and chiffon ready made gowns
can be found in shops, and perfect med
lev OF coats and wraps, trimmed and I'M
trimmed, frieze and diagonal, the COM
plete. well cut, well sewed, we'll pressed
and well finished ready made suit for
women does not exist.
Wherefore 1t seems that for this last and
most imperative need of women we must
fall back on the tailor.
Privately / am OF the opinion that in no
walk OF specially or accomplishment OF
the human race is man SO pre-eminently
superior to woman as IN the making OF
clothes. There is a masculine integrity
in a tailor S seam, an answering fidelity
to principles OF construction IN his cut, a
fine attention to detail in his finish, that
no mere woman can ever hope to rival.
And when the business or professional
woman can wear genuine tailor made
clOthes-that is the millennium come to her
and her kind.
a KEW CLOTHING STORE BUSINESS.
But how are these tailor made g towns
to be compasseG2 In the light of the list
OF names indorsing the movement it
II twenty OF the women in New York
whose names are on the list should de-
eide upon the style of dress they are will
ling 10 order and stand by, and should go
10 reliable manufacturer and negotiate
with him to have twenty such suits made
rs had been decided upon choosing color
and material, and STIMULATING to have
them carefully cut and the measurements
preserved Tor future use, the considera-
ton Of new development of business
would operate to bring the cost at ap-
prosimateiy the same as If the suits were
made for men,
Furthermore. twenty suits would give
twenty numbered ''sizes, which would
90 some way toward covering the amount
OF variation in sizes and figures of women,
and fr-nish measurements for good
part Of a ready-inade assortment of suits.
[ have been told that there are 115 num-
bered sizes necessary 10 the store of q
manufacturer of business suits for men,
and that that covers all variation from
short TO tall and slender to heavy man
hood.
II seems possible then that when many
times lis women determir have and
to wear certain and fixed IYle # cloth
imp for their working | lrs, the manu-
facturer can and viii af I'D to ma a and
keen them on SALE
TIE BUSINESS SUIT VII INCREASE THE
MARRIAGE RA.A-
It is interesting to fancy the Thousand
unlocked for results which the advent o.
the woman S business suit may effect. L
ii becomes-as the masculine style O.
dress. based upon business necessities
has become-an jmmutable and practi-
cnlIy unchanged style, all classes O
women Will dress alike, except indoor:
and in carriages. Servants Will buy M
more shabby velvet, housewives will buy
no more snowy remnants, and the time
consumed in fashioning and changing tbs
fashions OF last winters or last summer:
garments will be al the disposal of the
owners to expend as they will, either il
work, fun or folly.
II will increase the manufacture o
woollens and decrease the manufacture o
silks.
Ii will do away with nine-tenths of thu
nslliners, since a milliner's bonnet vii
not 90 with tailor-made gown, anS
bonnets may become as obsolete as lur
bans.
It viii increase the marriage rate, sire
Il viii decrease female expenditure.
In short, who knows the ultimate effec