The San Francisco call., 1895-07-14
Fine Up-to-Date Suits Can Be
Had Nearly for the
Asking.
NO ONE NEED DRESS POORLY.
Dealers In Mems Furnishings and
Footwear Quote Few
Standard Prices.


everybody also knows that all birds do not
wear fine feathers. Though It's true It's a
pity, especially since fine feathers are
within the reach of every biped in the
creation-beautiful comfortable coverings
for the bipeds with bills; fashionable,
serviceable clothing for the bipeds who
pay the bills.
Especially is this true in San Francisco.
The conditions are particularly favorable
to the wearing of fine apparel by the male
biped of the human species. He can cover
himself from tip to toe, from head to foot,
with the most pleasing, serviceable
raiment imaginable and not seriously feel
the tax on his income. Thin should
cred, chicken-breasted dudes, who forever
ride that messenger of death, the pale
horse, alias cigarette, spend more money
for poisonous whiffs in half year than it
would cost the average man to dress in
style. There is not man in San Fran
cisco who cannot dress well if he chooses,
and yet there are some, it must be con-
fessed, who do not.
There can hardly be an excuse advanced
in favor of shabbilv dressed man in San
Francisco. He has only his own indiffer-
ence and neglect to blame if he does not
appear on all occasions gotten up neatly
and precisely in the latest fashion. Every
thing from a collar-button to the latest tie
is his for the most ridiculously low outlay,
absolutely everything. He can be economi-
cal and get a years outfit in collars and
cuffs, shirts, neCkties, socks, underwear,
hats, shoes and clothing for a sum of
money surprisingly small. He can also be
what many people who are not in the
swagger set would call extravagant, and
still be so modest in his expenditures as to
not make much of decrease in his saw
ings.
In fact man, proud man, can wear
feathers as fine, and more of them, than the
gaudiest bird that flies the fields, and feel
not the slightest inconvenience in molt-
ing the few dollars necessary for their aC-
QUESTION. All over the Union these happy
conditions exist, but more particularly are
they present in this City. Never before in
the history of the country could man be
clothed and shod and furnished for the
small amount of cash he can now. Every
thing seems to be going for song-even
the birds have to pay that much for their
feathers-and everything is piled in endless
array awaiting the coming OF the man to
take them and fit them on his head, his
feet and his back, and to go out in the
world to hold his head up with the best of
them.
For instance, one clothier in the City will
guarantee to put three well-made suits, all
WOOL in the latest fashion, on the back of
the first man who comes along for just $31.
Those three suits should wear year. Two
OF them are trim, natty business suits, fit
to be seen in any company. The third is q
fashionably cut black clay, for general
dress wear, as nobby as could be.
Another well-known dealer goes even
further. He does not enumerate the num-
Der of suits he will furnish, but he does
say that he will guarantee to keep an ordi-
nary man well dressed for year, in every
thing but the shoes, for Just one ordinary
$50 gold piece.
Those seem reasonable enough offers,
now, don't they? That's getting man s
personal adornment down to bedrock, sure
enough.
People scarcely look for any great slash
in prices from the shoe-dealers, and Just
now that is where every body is mistaken.
II the clothler is good Samaritan the
shoe-dealer is another. He has bargains
to offer that are something wonderful, so
wonderful in fact that the proudest, poor.
est man IN the City of San Francisco can
cover up the most painful corn or the most
unsightly bunion with the most fashiona-
bic shoe imaginable for a few, very few
dollars.
The shoeman will patent leather him,
and cowhide him to boot if need be for a
whole year for good deal less money than
the interest on the debt the world owes to its
most worthless nhabitant. And every
body knows what a small amount that is.
Shoes, as the shoeman says, are cheaper
than the dirt one shakes from his soles.
From this in general way it can be
seen how easily and cheaply, fashionably
and comfortably man can array himself
IN the City of San Francisco, and it can be
Just as readily seen how careless of him
self man must be who wears shabby or
out-of-date clothing, shoes or hats. That
is only in general. For those who wish to
go into particulars to find out exactly what
1t costs TO wear the finest materials, in tho
latest styles, in short, all those who wish
to be N form, THE CALL has taken pains to
have some of the clothiers and shoe deal
ers OF the City interviewed as to the cost OF
good raiment to the man who is not q
Vanderbilt, an Astor or Berry Wall.
The CALL is actuated by the desire to show
the people what 1t costs the people to
dress. 10 begin with, the toys of man,
aside from his footgear, were considered in
one OF the large emporiums of the City.
"a good, sensible man. said Charles
Keilus of 1.-The Hub, "Who desires to dress
we'll and in form, can to-day purchase a
tirst-class suit of clothes for from $40 to
SIS, which will probably wear him from
eight to nine months. Of course, there are
cheaper suits than the $40 ones, but any
body buying goods OF that description =
cheaper than $l0-would find that he would
need at least four suits year, whereas the
suits that sell from $40 to $15 will last al
most the same length of time. a man
who buys this cheaper clothing is slave
to his purse. He is forever buying. The
sensible man buys the better garment of q
good, reliable concern and gets his moneys
worth.
"When it comes down to hats we are
right there. A tirst-class grade of hat can
be sold for 81 80. 1t will be in season
stylish and of good quality. and will last a
year. You can buy good wool underwear
for 81 so per suit. White shirts. first-class
quality, can be purchased at 70 cents each
while collars range from 10 cents to %
cents each. Socks, and good ones, sell
from 10 cents pair up to as high as any
man cares to go.
81 haven't quite figured out just wha
it would cost to clothe man modestly,
but thoroughly, for a year, but. taking ii
all IN all, would guarantee to dress him
| complete and have him look we'll for yeal
for $40. would also guarantee in the bar.
gain that he receives the latest make, the
newest fashions and clear, honest fabrics. u
j. w. Raphael, OF RaphaePs, talked in a
similar strain.
1--WE can fit out man with suit O!
clothes" he said, 'in the latest style, fol
$40. We can do this, as we buy our wool