The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-03-14

i sponsibility and turn everything over | to the tailor, they must pay for the
 luxury. That's all there is about it. It | is absurd for woman to go to a cheap tailor, select her goods, and then eX- | pect the man to turn out for her a $50 gown. If he could do that, why would | he be making gowns for $35
 "Women are unreasonable about that sort of thing; but, so far as our patrons
 go, the women aren't any more finical than the men. It's harder to make a
 woman's gown. Perfection in it is of a
 higher kind than perfection in a mans
 suit; but the woman isn't bit more of a stickler in demanding CT standard of perfeqtlon than the man is in de-
 manding his. The trouble we have with
 our men patrons is enough to turn our
 hair gray Once in while man comes along who says, Make me a suit off of
 this,' and that's the end of 1t. He
 doesn't care about details so long as the
 clothes are comfortable. But the aver
 age man is vain awfully vain. Why, if
 men had as much latitude of choice as
 women, and man had to choose as
 many clothes as a woman does he'd die
 of brain fever or nervous prostration.
 I've known the selection of a fancy
 waistcoat to reduce a man to such a
 state that we had to send out and get
 five cocktails for him before he could
 pull himself together and go out into
 the world. Men are awfully queer about
 Waistcoats. You see that's about the
 only garment on which man can turn
 an effulgent fancy loose; and, even in
 the matter of Waistcoats, convention
 al man doesn't dare indulge his taste.
 A fellow who is isn't flop hates being
 conspicuous; and it's a funny thing to
 see a man yearn for a red brocade
 waistcoat, and try to make himself be-
 leve he could wear it, and finally, or
 der a black waistcoat and go away sor-
 rowful. Sometimes he will brace up
 and order the giddy thing and walk away very firmly. Then l tell the men
 not to cut into the goods, and in about an hour the telephone rings and MT. Smith has changed his mind. He will have a black waistcoat-plain black. You've no idea what comfort these red golf coats and hunting pinks are to American men. They give him what he has been wishing for all his life. Neckties have really been his only form of expression until now"
 Do you have many suits thrown back on your hands by men?" asked the reporter
 Well, I guess yes!'' said the tailor, airily. Accidents will happen in any shop where a number of workmen are employed, and sometimes we turn out a garment that isn't right. Then, too, Iyp I,nu q n nf p,IS thnt c hnr- ribly exacting One of my best cus- toners comes in and orders a suit, and if when it is finished there is the slight est thing about it that doesn't please him he presents it to me. He will not let me try to remedy the fault. because he has a theory that if the thing isn't cut right at first 1t will never look right. One man who is swell in the 400 gives me no end of trouble He is tremen- J dously particular, and I always take great pains with his fittings, but nine chances to one when he puts on the garment he thinks something about it isn't right. Heidoesn't argue or get out of temper. He just throws the suit to me and says: That's your suit. Make me another off this piece of goods You see he picks out different piece of | cloth because he is afraid I would fix | up the other suit I've often made four suits for him before I could give him | one he would wear.'
 The reported looked impressed. You can't make much money out of that | sort of trade" he commented.
 "Oh, yes. The man buys great deal | in the course of the year, and he pays 1 1fe. + o l [ do fit him out and his clothes bring | me any amount of custom. Of course, | 1e is an exception; but we have all | sorts of lesser cranks, and they make ] IS much fuss over a little imperfection IS any woman could. American men ire a great deal fussier about their | than Englishmen are. was on Regent street for years, and work was | ,asier, but prices weren't so good as hey are here. The Englshmen wears lis clothes very loose. A sack coat has m excuse for its name over there and if | Tn Englishmans clothes fit comforta- ply he's satisfied; but an American wants more than comfort. He wants elegance; and it's hard to combine the wo.
 'The hardest problem we run up against is the man who is beginning to ose his figure-or get it. He wants to ook the way he did five years earlier; md, if he doesn't look that way, it's he fault of the clothes. We let out his waist measure and change out cut, to ,eep up with his change of contour; | nd then he comes in and hauls us over he coals and says that his last suit vas all wrong and makes him a fright, |, nd that we've lost our knack of fit- ing him and he'll have to go else where. He comes back to us later; but
 man usually tries three or four tail IFS before he settles down to the con- fiction that he has lost his waist line or good and no tailor can give ne
 You'd be surprised to know how nuch padding we do in our mems tail- ring. Figures don't lie as much in len's clothes as in women's, but we ouch nature up in great many ways, specially in the case of frock coats here aren't many figures that can arry frock coat well, nor dress coat lt ither. We make clothes for one of the opular opera singers, and I tell you he I arries stage methods into his dress lothes for evening concerts and his 'ock coat for afternoon concerts and 10 proneuade He's snare and a de- | \