Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 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 to a tailor and having your suit made to order and just as many possible advantages in buying It ready made. With the ready-made suit there is always this: You can see the finished garment. There 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 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 hiru;' However, if you aro blessed with a good figure the tailor will reveal the fact as the ready-made suit cannot possibly da even if It is altered, for it is necessary to make 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 inl’mind': That for this winter suits made of heavy meals suit fabricsaregolngto- beextremelysmarr-Se-lect such a fabric that show§" 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 .of 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 this make use of the striping to give the suit its only trimming.