The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-26
HUNT FOR The CHEAP TAILOR.
SIMPLE EXPERIENCE or MANY
4 WOMAN ~ TOM.

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You usually end him In this way
You run in to SEQ your best friend TOM"
fine day and, nnce neither Of you is man.
the talk naturally drifts around to clothes
This 10 one Of the infallible proofs that
you are really and truly feminine.
-Oh. by the way. Bertha shc breaks IN
eagerly, Il saw Mrs. Brown the other day
and she told me OF a oaeip tailor who
made stunn ne suit for frisnd OF friend
Of hers, 40 got tn, address for you
Then she produces her address book. and,
after turning the leaves back. and forth
for a minute. reads imprcssiveiy:
August Schmidt. street.
This IL the way it begins.
The days come and go. but the future
looms large with August Schmidt. You
have tried cheap tailors before. score
Of them. And more than one Of those with
whom you have wrestlsd for womans
due In the matter Of curves Is now the
proprietor Of an expensive uptown etao-
lishment and would not touch suit und ,r
SIS. But why reminiscef
Let us return to Schmidt, as he will cali
himself when he moves uptown AMI has
plate-glass window To put his name on
Schmidt who In slated 10 make or mar you.
for a woman, more than man. is what her
tailor makes her.
Perhaps IL IL in the springtiue that you
finally look him up. when The air Ii fun
Of hope and past experience il OF no more
account than last year 3 withered leaves.
Who can tell? Perhaps with this twenty
first cheap tailor your form may come into
its heritage. Perhaps Schmidt is that long
sought man. a cheap tailor who will under
stand that sometimes nature merely makes
suggestions. leaving n for the tailor TO
carry them out. that a. times hor work 10
trife sketchy.
The address is promising. OF course. It
Is below Fourteenth street In what to the
average New York woman 10 an I'M
explored region. You discover Schmidt at
last In dingy. bad-smelling tenement.
He may be large, fair and phlcgmatic. or
he may be small. dark and Of anarchistic
leanings But no matter how he looks, he
will smell Of garlic and he will greet you
with an obeequious smile, which will deepen
and deepen until after you have paid .
deposit on q suit. and then will fade and
fade. No cheap tailor ever expects 70
make more than one suit for you. You are
simply q round Of the ladder upon which he
ia climbing upward and there is no use
stepping on the same round twice.
You select your material and pay g de-
post. Then you come away and think. =
The long trip back home affords you
plenty of time. Small. sncakine doubts
enter your mind. but you silence them
sternly' by saying to yourself, "Silk-ined
and good goods. and only $40"
However. you make up your mind TO
instruct Schmidt very carefully, for. Try As
YOU NAV you cannot altogether oblitersie
the past You have an uncomfort able
rcooliection Of that brown s,nt which
would have boon stunning lad Il not been
an inch too short ia front. and OF tie cat
that looked precisely ike Mary's sixty
dollar one, except that the armholes weie
roused out In the back IN ~uo:i q manner
tat Il deiucto1 ~ lcast an mo. and half
from the breadth OF your sloul ,err, which
never were ,,road enough TO bear the 1ur-
dens put upon them! %
But forewarnei Ia forearmed. When you
return to Schmidt you have scrap Of
paper on which you have jotted down the
paints that are to he especially impressed
upon Schmidt's mind. You keen u In the
hollow OF your hand as he puts the skirt over
your head. and then gently but firmly you
say. .,,. NV mir, ,o,s enough in
front, II must touch the floor. In the
hank I want II to fit smoothly, but II must
not have that strained look tlat 20 many OF
he plain skirts have, don't want wrinkle
in Il, vet there must be plenty, OF room.
Do you understand what mean1
- lo> at
mouth fun Of pins. 10 making chalk mark
here and ripping q scam there. precisely a.
n he knew his business. But you Go not
appreciate the exquisite humor OF uhs
un IN oder to give the eject tina, I want.
ron continue. snxiously. "thcso seams over
the hips SHOULD lave decided curve. like
this, you know And you twist about and
trv 10 show him. -
Hc crunta, but docs not l'ft his eyes,
II make your skirt al! right he volun-
,.er. At last, getting heavily up from, tae
Hoor. Tion he tases . siapeleNs thius;
wi,ich turns out tn he coat lining. ard
| holds IL up for Won TO put your arms through.
II work vid de Lest tailors in Vienna, lac
concludes. In . pa,roni1ing tone. -.
fatal formula. They have always worked
w,th the hes. ta'lors IN Vienna-cr some
where. Your faith has received shock.
However. he is be sinning to pin, and yoy ,
give yonr whole energy to more practice
Won hold your l,rcath until you feel ~ u ycu
vouId hurst. H Ia slow. and you cannot
| stry inflated another minute.
sRsrronber.' you gasp impreesiveiy
.renember. rin, my coat very. yer,
Schmidt rms 20 dossedly. You wonder
whether he hear
, AND 4, must ~ i-et pc broad oc-osr
the shoulders a. z can - wiinnnt wrnsLre