Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1919 — THAT NEW SUIT FOR WINTER [ARTICLE]

THAT NEW SUIT FOR WINTER

Advantages and Disadvantages In Having It Ready-Made or Made ' to Order. There are - possible advantages, in going t'o a tailor and having your suit mn de to order and just as many possible advantageanin buying it retdy made. With ffife ready-made suit there is always this: You can see the finished garment. Theite Is never the possiblity that you won't like it after it is finished, for it is finished to begin with. Moreover, if you are a person whose time is precious, the ready-made suit has advantages in that way. Even if it needs rather elaborate alterations you will need far less fitting than if you are having it made entirely to order. And

of course, the ready-made suit, if you buy a good one from a smart shop, has probably been made according to the design of a_very skilled and highly paid person, whereas your tailor may or may not have the eye of a real designer and he may or may not follow skillfully the lines of the design you select for him. However, if you are blessed with a good figure the tailor will reveal the faet as the ready-made suit cannot possibly do, even if it is altered, f orl ready-mades according to designs that do not as a rule play up the figure. They must be built for the average figure and built according to lines that require the least possible fitting. If you do go to the tailor bear this in mind: That for this winter suits made of heavy men’s suit fabrics 4tre going to be extremely smart. Select such a fabric that shows a decided stripe—one that would probably not be the one you would choose for your husband or son, because the stripes should be quite far apart and quite noticeable. A suiting .ofj dark slate gray with a lighter gray stripe is a splendid selection. Now have the bodice pieces of the pattern cut lengthwise of the stripe with a tunic on the jacket cut the other way of the material. Or in some such way as jthis make use of the striping to give the suit its only trimming.