The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-10
The Tale Of
The Boomers
Trials ofa Tailor Who Eadsayored to
Equip Toung Lady.
UNIQUE LETTERS FROM SYLVIA
The Bicycle Garments Led 10 lawsuit
for Slirhey We're Not Properly
Padded Where the Chief Wear
aud Tear Took place"

Court, III Brooklyn, next week, will
show why Miss Sylvia Bogert quit the
dress reformers. and why Tailor Ralph
A. Clark has made his last pair of
bicycle boomers. says the New York
sun. II will show in detail the trouble
between two long suffering people
trouble that. caused an 81 Law snit
which Miss Bogert says she will carry
10 the United States Supreme Court ii
necessary.
III 1 can't have bloomers as | want
them. won't have them at all, and 10
tailor can make me take them" is Miss
Bogert's ultimatum.
Miss Sylvia Bogert Is twenty years
old. She is pretty brunette. short but
graceful. with large brown eyes, which
shone with anger as she explained her
trials as dress refornier. She lives at
the sonora flats No. 203 West Four
teenth street She belongs To Il family
well known In theatrical and musical
circles. When she came Uut on Il wheel
she found herself embarrassed by How
ing skirts. When her dress got entang-
ed with the spokes of her wheel her
"NNNthNi|ii ei9 bui ~ iIGcS it'pl III
One day last summer, while whirling up
Flatbush avenue in Brooklyn, she saw
this sign; Ladies Bicycle Bloomers Il
Specially"
Miss Bogert stopped the wheel in
front Of the sign and told Ralph \.
Clarke. the tailor that she wanted some
boomers.
"All right" said Mr.. Clark that is
our specially, and we can iii You OUT,
But | want them different from the
boomers worn by other girls" said
Miss Bogert, and then she proceeded 10
explain that she wanted these queer
garments made Of navy blue extra
heavy storm serge. She insisted that,
for satisfactory reasons, the blooomers
Should be lined with chamois leather.
and that In place Of buttons and hooks
there should be laces on each side to
hold the boomers 10 her body. She
wanted long strips Of broad black braid
on the sides and four pockets, including
one on each hip. Finally, she was very
particular In explaining that there
should be an extra heavy lining of
chamois leather in that part OF the
boomers where the exigencies Of wheel
ing demanded extra strength.
Tailor Clark thought that the con-
tract was an easy one, and he told Miss
Bogert that the bloomers could be made
| for $1l.
Now the next step is to get correct
measurement" he said
Miss Bogert said nothing. She did
not know what 10 say, because she had
never been measured for bloomers by
man. When the tailor produced IL tape
measure she gave u quick gasp, but
grew composed when the tailor said:
| You can just step behind that cur
tain and measure yourself"
| She followed few simple instruc-
tions given by the tailor and went
home. On August the boomers arrlv-
ed at the Sonora Hats. on the next day
the bloomers were returned t. the tailor
with this note:
| Dear Mr.. Clark: Kindly note that there
Is all evident discrepancy between my
| measurements .and the indescribGble
things that you nave sent me. also call
your attention TO the fact that you have
! Aiot lut pdTlS
where the chief wear and tear will take
place. Sincerely, Sylvia Bogert.
Mr.. Clark changed the measurements
Of the garments and added more pad
ding. Back came the bloomers from
the Sonora fats with this note pinned
on the hip pocket:
Dear Mr.. Clark: / object 10 looking
like contemporary OF Hendrix Hudson.
| Make me look like Il modern American
woman, please. Sincerely.
Sylvia BoSert.
Mr.. Clark made one more effort to
make Miss Bogert look like an Ameri-
can woman" but the boomers were re-
turned with another note:
Dear Mr.. Clark: | am afrad that you
win think that | am hard TO please. but
the bloomers are somewhat tight where
they should be loose, ana absurdly loose
| where no fulness Is needed. | am tired of
complaining, ana unless you can make
| them TO my satisfaction | shall not take
them Please look up my measurements
once more. Sincerely,
Sylvia Bogert,
Mr. Clark is a patient man, and
although quite as tired Of hearing Miss
Bogerts complaints as she was Of
complaining, he made more changes
and asked Miss Bogert To- men-
sure the bloomers for the purpose Of
unifying her measurements. She re-
piled by returning the bloomers again,
and writing u lot Of criticisms about
pleats, cores. darts. and SO forth. Then
Tailor Clark got angry. He had lost
several pounds and aged so rapidly that
his friends became alarmed. He threw
the bloomers In a corner Of his store and
took down the sign from the window.
There would be no more specialties In
the line Of boomers at his place.
He then notified Miss Bosert that she
would have IT, pay for the boomers
whether she liked them OF not. Miss
Bogert wrote back that Mr.. Clark could
give them to some one else; she would
not have them. Mr.. Clark consulted
his lawyer, John a. Anderson, and
began a suit against Miss Bogert to re-
cover sll, the price OF the boomers. The
papers were served yesterday.
Miss Bogert told q reporter last eve
ming that the bloomers We're all wrong.
In the first place" she said, they did
not fit. They were too tight where -
well. they did not tit at all. | suppose
Mr. Clark thought | would take of my
skirts when / made the measurements
behind the curtain; but | didn't do it.
Then. again, they were not lined rs
ordered. YOU see. that chamois leather
lining was my own idea. | wanted to
wear the boomers in the fall and-well,
did not want any more clothes inside
Of them, that's all. Then the lining was
SO arranged that--you see this is n deli
cate subJect-but my letter 10 Mr. Clark
explains that, But lam going to stick
to skirts for bicycling, and am done
with dress reform