Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1907 — NEW USE FOR DIPLOMAS. [ARTICLE]

NEW USE FOR DIPLOMAS.

Dressmakers Could Use Them to Re assure Nervous Customers. Many New York women who patronize a new dressmaker for the flrsl time propound an embarrassing ques tlon: “Have you a diploma?” they ask. “I didn’t know what answer tolnakt to the first customer that put thal question to me.” said one dressmaker. “I certainly did not have a dl ploma. I knew how to* sew, but I had UtOlcertificate to that effect. Finally I found that many women have suffered so grievously at the hands ol incompetents that they were unwill ing to trust their work to a person who could not show some guaranty oi eEperleßee tmd" efflcfency; *so, attttmigh' 1 know murtygraut" sewTrig~'Tfian nail of the fashionable dressmakers Id town, I actually worked in one establishment foir four months so that 1 could point to a printed diploma which says, ‘Formerly with Mme dressmaker to arm herself with ere dentials of that kind. She ought to have her diploma framed and hung on the wall, like a doctor’s diploma, so as to give confidence to doubting customers.”—New York Sun.