Arizona republican., 1920-04-19

and said that. merely from personal experience, he doubted if any great number of men would stick to such a movement.
 "The overall movement resolves it. self down to this.' said the buyer. Men who are in the habit of having maven't been in the habit of having as many as they ever did. Men who haven't been in the habit of havink many clothes may cut down little and wear their old clothes longer So neither class will buy new overallS, thereby sending up the price of over alls for men who use them in their work
 The average man of affairs in Phoe- nix, said the buyer, may have as many as a dozen suits a year, and there are 200 men, at a rough guess, he said, in this city who order as many suits and think nothing about it.
 There is a freshness about frequent change of clothes, said the expert, which is a personal recommendation in itself, and marks the successful man. No man who is 100 per cent efficient in business can afford to ig- nore the importance of being well dressed.
 The buyer wrinkled his brow in an effort to recall off hand just the pre- else number of social affairs which required a special sort of evening dress, and said that to the average amateur in dress such matters were a mystery
 There is less difficulty over the mat ter of attire for church or to be mar ried in, said the buyer. The most vivid sartorial imagination has little room for exercise in this line.
 Men, he said, do not go to church as frequently as they go elsewhere. nor do they care so much how they look there. And of course even the most frequent marrier does not do it often Ii. tailor.
 But sportsi Here the buyer grew lyrical as he painted glowing pie ture of the creations he turned out for his store patrons, for, said he. every thing that a gentleman can do with profit and grace has need of it's own peculiar uniform.
 Asked about men of an economical turn of mind, the buyer said that he never travelled without less than five or six suits, and the average man in his trade bought eight or nine suits a year. Mems styles, he pointed out, change very slowly, so that the or dinary successful business or profes- sional man, normally interested in his work, is hardly aware that change has come before his wife insists that he is growing shabby and that his wardrobe must be replenished. - Wives Of some customers accompany their husbands. said the clothes man, S. In spite of certain fundamental differ ences of opinions between women and their husbands tailors, these visits were rather approved of because in- variably the wife demanded a better grade of material than her husband would buy if left to himself.
 Women show good judgment, said the buyer in material and style. Pos sibly their interest in their husbands appearance is not wholly aesthetic It may serve to draw attention to their own dress and millinery bills when they know exactly how much their husbands clothes cost, and can per suade their men to put from s25 to $50 more in a suit.
 Success in business occasionally makes difference in the number of suits ordered. explained the salesman. phenomenal success will sometimes be followed immediately by a large order and failure almost by a pro- longed absence. Tn fact, tailor fre- quently is often pretty thoroughly con- versant with the affairs Of his cus-- toners. both financial and family, and often knows more about the man he helps to clothe than the doctor does about his patients.
 A woman not long ago, said the buyer. libeled Americans by saying that the men were not dressed as well as the men one met in London or Paris. but that is a joke We have as we'll dressed men in Phoenix as can be met any day in the Bois de Bou-