Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1919 — Returning Soldiers Have Outgrown Civilian Clothes [ARTICLE]

Returning Soldiers Have Outgrown Civilian Clothes

Some of the soldiers returning to civil life from the world war are facing a problem they did not expect—not the problem of finding a job to fit them, but that of finding a suit to do so. As they return to civil life and civil habiliments it seems likely the tailors will be busy, for the men are finding they cannot get into the clothing they discarded when they donned uniforms. Gains in weight up to 25 pounds are common, while some have made greater gains. Those who went in the army young and not fully developed, made especially large gains, but men of twenty-five years and up, who thought they had stopped growing, find that they have added brawn and muscle to a degree that prevents them wearing their former garb and that they;will have to provide themselves with new clothes. In some cases, the shoqS; too, will have to be a size or two larger and made on a wider last as well.