Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1882 — Dressing Men by Contract. [ARTICLE]

Dressing Men by Contract.

In Lond< n men arejmpposed to dress well. Why is a mystery, unless it be, as I have been informed, tailors dt ess them by contract. A young man withes to be a swell—as t»ie phrase is—land goes to a tailor, offering him S‘JW a year to clothe him. The tailor kpeps him supplied with new suits as fast as the swell returns the old ones, witch he cannot keep more than a month. They are but little, if any; worn, And

the tailor immediately pells them to ready-made clothing houses. At the end of the year the tailor haa made S2OO from hu swell; has made a profit on the sale of the clothes, ana the swell has dressed exquisitely at small expense. In this way the tailors l>ecome patrons of the arts and phi’aXr thropists in one breath.