Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-02-20

are imported because their LABORATORY
tests have shown them that certain
things for definite purposes they can
find in some foreign place winch are
exactly what they require: You may
feel as you listen that these Things
add to the cost of the clothlng-tney
do, no doubt about it, but on the
same principle that you buy conserVa-
tive bonds for investment these PEG,
pie buy the finest grade OF material
for their clothin. 1t gives the most
in yield and safety in the long run, II
gives you more for each dollar Oh
price.
We look into the shops for mo-
ment where the clothing IS made or
put together we find the same spec
ialization, the same laboratory exact.
itude. Instead of having a group OF
operatives do say three or four
things acceptably. well, they nave
developed groups of operatives VINO
do only one thing extraordinary
we'll. For instance, in making a PLAIN
sack coat such as most Of you men
wear, this house employs elghty-one,
different people in thir shops and
that's after everything is cut and
ready to be put together. There are
sixty-one people or operations IN
putting together pair of trousers
and there are thirty-nine operations
or people in, making OF putting to-
gether a vest. That makes. nun
dred and eighty-one operatives ex'
elusive of the cutters and exclusive
of the indirect labor such as inspec-
tors and supervisors who have a
hand in making a three piece sack
suit. That item is important in con-
sidering value and price and quality
for the simple reason that each one
of these 181 is an expert at that
one particular thing. There are
nine people who are specialists on
collars and seven who are specialists
on sleeves. It's quite true that the
seven sleeve specialists might be
hopeless "dubs" on the body or collar
of coat and the nine collar MAX
ers wouldn't know much about
sleeves but that makes no difference
for the simple reason that they don't
have to. The one thing they know
to perfection and that means the one
thing they do is done right.
To get back to a point we keep
our mind and we're trying to put
over to you which is the difference
between making a garment in
frst-class way and in some other way
not quite SO good. 1t is possible, for
example, to take piece of cloth,
let's say a piece of overcoating. OF
course, it has to be all wool, it has to
have definite tensol strength, to have
definite number of threads. to an
inch, and of course the count varies
on the different kinds Of cloth.
You'd expect to find more in serge
than in a homcspun like for instance
the average golf suit. AS we said
let's assume for example a piece of
ovrcoating. 1t is possible for one
house to produce an overcoat Of that
material and for some other house
to use the same identical goods mad
produce a similar ovcrcoat. We
mean similar in a general way, and
yet be able to sell it for several
dollars less Remember it's the same
piece of wooden goods. Before we go
any further, we ought to say in JUS
tice to the first house-the quality
matter of ability,
they could make the garment at
lower difference between the two
coats when they are ready for you to
wear. Let's say it was a coat we
could offer you for $500 and some
body else offered you one for saw
S42.5O or if he was good merchant
for S40.25. You'd look at the two
coats and you'd see they both had
storm collars, both double breasted,
both had belts all around, and both
had cuffs on the sleeves-you'd
probably ask US right off, GLOW
comes the difference in price? In
what way is one better than the
othr." Then we'd be very glad to
point out a few things to you like
this: The first coat was lined across
the shoulders and and in the sleeve
with a good heavy grade of silk; the
other coat has absolutely no lining, not
even in the sleeves. The good one
is put together with plain unobtru-
sive seams and the inside of the