The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-10
TAILOR MADE CLOTHES.
A Glimpse at Prominent and Popular
Raleigh Establishment.

| If you speak OF a man or a woman
these days as being clad in a tailor
made suit the inference is that the best
method of fashionable dress has been
resorted to.
| Tailor made clothes have held first
place in fashionable attire for ages. 1t is
said that at one time all the crowned
heads of Europe were honorary MEM
bers of the Tailors' Union, and it is
also said that Bismarck and other nota-
bles are now members of the Union.
| Artistic tailoring is a science as well
as an art and the business is perhaps as
much profession as it is trade. A
man to be an artistic tailor must be a
genius. His brain as well as his fingers
must be trained. His mission is an i'm
portant and responsible one in all civil
liked life. He must be in evidence, or
rather his work must be in evidence, in
all the temples OF fashion, in all ecclesi-
astical or judicial courts, in all, Houses
OF Commons, of Lords and other legis-
lators. His work makes all the balls
fashionable and fine and it makes the
weddings brilliant
The tailor dresses the fashionable
world in artistic attire. The clothes
make the man; the tailor makes the
clothes.
| The world recognizes in the tailor the
important factor that he is, in it's every
day, and especially in it's Sunday, life.
| He is an important parsonage in viii
Ilage, town and city. AS class the tail
ors command the attention and respect
of their fellows, and especially IN large
cities they are strong in numbers and in
influence. IF you will notice." said a
gentleman yesterday, ''you win OBJ
serve that in all the big parades in our
big cities the Tailors' Union takes the
lead.
| Tailor made clothes are the models of
modern dress, and the older the world
gets the more essential the tailor be-
comes to its social and business affairs.
/ These remarks were prompted by a
visit yesterday to the tailoring estab-
lishment of Mr.. George N. Walters,
Raleigh's we'll known and popular tailor.
| Mr.. Walters is genius with the
shears. He has been for many years the
revealer of fashion in mems attire for
this city and section. Mr.. Walters pa
irons, too, are spread all over the State
and almost all over the country. He
makes clothes regularly, to speak in
plain English, for discriminating. men in
washington, new 1OTk, bdIllluOFe,
Richmond and other far away points.
He makes them for statesmen, clergy
men, Congressman, diplomats and prom
inent men generally, ard his reputation
as a strictly up-to-date scientific and
artistic tailor extends far and wide.
/ Mr.. Walters is likewise an expert in
the selection of material. He studies
fashions, of course, and keeps right
square up with the very latest In his
selection of suitings he exercises perhaps
as much skill as in the cutting of the
garment He knows a piece of goods by
the feeling, and he can tell in the dark
just about what it is and where it was
made.
| He has just opened perhaps the best
!, line of goods that he has ever brought
to Raleigh. They have been selected by
him from the cream of imported fabrics
English and Scotch cheviots and Irish
and Barney tweeds, Irish Frieze Mon
taque for overcoating, silver medal
GRANTEES, English homespuns, Clay's and
other standard diagonals and fall dress
worsteds. Everything imported and ev.
erything direct from the worlds best
/, and most fashionable loOms.n ta
Mr.. Walters establishment is one OF
the attractions of the capital city, espe'
cially for those gentlemen who desire
. the best in clothing at reasonable prices
i "A suit of clothes made by George ~
Walters is a standard for excellence in
fit. finish and fashion all around the
~ Ry