The San Francisco call., 1895-07-14

cellent shirt, re-enforced throughout, forS1.
We can give him the latest and most fash
ionable creations in neckwear for % cents.
"What would it cost to cloth this mod
crate man, aside from footgear. for year?
Well we could furnish him for both sea-
sons, winter and summer, with two suits,
an overcoat, the hat, the underwear and
the other things mentioned for $40 year.
''Ih all this, of course, have been speak
ing of the man in limited circumstances.
A man can, of course, dress himself ac-
cording to his purse, and we can sell him
higher priced goods if he so desires. We
could make him comfortable for half the
| money, too, if he wished it that way"
"The way we are selling goods now,"
said Achille Roos of Roos Brothers, "a
man can dress himself very nicely for very
little money. To furnish him presentably
with clothing for year would take three
suits, which would cost from $50 to $35, all
| told. Here are three suits, such as l speak
| OF, this gray business suit, this darker one
OF the same cut. general finish, with fine,
| durable trimmings, and this black clay
! cutaway suit, all for $31. They can't beat
that anywhere. We keep only the latest
styles and are up with the seasons and fur
nish as perfect fits as the most fashionable
| custom tailor.
'In overcoats, hats and general mems
! furnishing goods there is the same cheap
| ness observable, coupled with the same
style and finish. There is nothing shoddy
about any of these goods and the i'll
dressed man can blame only himself for
| his condition"
From these interviews, which the gen.
| tlemen giving them are willing to back up
| by furnishing the articles at the prices
| quoted, the readers of THE CALL will have
no trouble at all in arriving at the conclu-
| sion that the best mems clothing and
mems furnishings are cheap enough to sat
| isfy the most eager bargain hunter. In
fact, they are even cheaper than quoted,
| for the reason. as one OF the interviewed
coyly admitted, that every house in town
! made drives in certain lines at certain
| times, when the careful readers of the big
ads in THE CALL were rewarded by bar
| gains that would have made the shades of
old-time dealers moan in their earthly pri-
| son houses.
| That's so much for clothing and furnish
| ings. Now for the shoes-those splendid
creations of latter days, which lift man
| completely off the earth and make him
| feel like a King. AS stated previously,
shoes are cheap in San Francisco; SO
cheap that it is roughly estimated that,
take the City through and through, the
cost of footgear in San Francisco will not
exceed $40 per capita.
my impression of the cost of shoes and
| the wearing qualities" said John L. Sulll-
van, whose Fourth-street store is known to
| all, varies, of course, with the quality
| should say that laboring man would
need two pairs, OF working shoes year
! and one pair of dress shoes to be cOmfOrta-
| bly, and decently shod. That would not
cost more than So at the outside. A man
| can dress elegantly in the shoe line, have
| pair for every month in the year, for from
$25 to $50. When he passes the latter mark
he is bordering closely on extravaganza.
Starting in with the laboring man,
/ or aHa nf hn n hH1 70 n
tail shoe firm of Rosenthal & FEEDER, I
would say that he needed a couple of pair
of heavy working shoes during the year.
| They would cost him 50 a pair. Then he
would need one pair of dress shoes, and he
can get good ones for So. In all that
| makes 81 year, and he will be well and
neatly shod all the time.
"Now take business man, who wears a
finer grade of shoe, he will probably need
| three pairs of hand-sewed calf, costing, say,
! 81 a pair; and then, maybe, one pair of
| French patent-leather shoes at So. That's
$17 year. and his feet are dressed as fash
| ionably and as comfortably as are those of
| the finest in the land"
At the big store of the Nolan Bros. Shoe
| Company, on Market street, the same gen.
eraI average on the dura bilitv of shoes was
| struck as above, but the impression was
| gained that many men in the City ran big
| bills for fine shoes, tan and calf and patent
| leather, sporting new ones as O1ten as tney
did ties, and gaddening the hearts of the
dealers.
In all cases, however, it was found that
good shoes were cheap; that men do not
have their footgear soled and heeled as fire.
quently as their fathers did, and that the
! San Francisco shoe-dealer is as much of a
benefactor to the human race as is the San
| Francisco clothier.
!,