Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1893 — To Keep Trousers in Shape. [ARTICLE]

To Keep Trousers in Shape.

A well-dressed man recently entered a leading men’s furnishers store and asked to be shown suspenders, says the' Clothier and Furnisher. Presently after due investigation he selected a certain style and inquired of the salesman how many pairs he bad in stock. was the number, and he took the lot, the clerk meanwhile looking at the customer with a suspicion as to his sanity. There was method Id the man’s madness. ‘'You see,” said he, “when one has a pair of suspenders for each pair of trousers and one hangs the trousers by the suspenders from the closet nail the dependent weight keepsi the trousers in shape and the ‘bag’ out! of the knees. Moreover,” continued! this practical latter-day, Beau Brum- 1 mell, “think of the waste of time involved in the changing of one’s suspenders every time one changes one’s; trousers, let alone the bother. And' then consider in such a case the wear and tear in both suspenders and trousers, Besides one pair of trousers may be longer, or shorter than another apd the susjk jdersTiFtftey have not been changed, once adjusted properly the process of hoisting up or down, which causes an expenditure of time and patience, is done away with. It is infinitely pleasanter and decidedly cheaper in the end to have a dozen pair of braces on hand,” exclaimed the argumentative man in a tone of conviction, as he picked up his package and strode out of the doorway.