Show The Cost of Clot Clothes s W T E do not like to believe predictions of an unpleasant Y ant sound but we wo might as us well wen take warning when the tailors tell us what they arc going to charge this fall faIl and winter Already Alren y pushed to what he considers considers considers con con- siders the extreme limit the average n man is going to be he tried just a little further As the war recedes into the tile past prices continue to climb Arc Are all these n advances ances cs made necessary by increases in cost of materials als and labor or urn arc there other influences es cs at work A New Nc York newspaper quotes a leading tailor as follows It does docs seem preposterous to the thc average a man to hear that prices like for a n business suit and to O for an overcoat will he charged within within within with with- in the next few months hut such is the case Tilt Tho main cause canse is tile the advance of per pct cent in the thc prices of labor and woolens within the last Jast three years years with prospects of still greater advances within within with with- 1 in the near future Tailors in New York who will charge like this have probably been getting getting- from SO 80 to for a I heretofore They ore are the sort who hn have customers who will wm pay anything to be lie smartly clad We Ve get a n little littlemore littlemore more insight ht into the price boosting game a little further along in m the interview The tailor continues The price does docs not seem t to interfere in the I slightest with those sel seeking king goo good clothes If a man has mone money in his Ids pocket he will pay almost any price mice asked for a suit situ t rather than place himself in inthe inthe inthe the position of or being cheap by arguing about it I There we have e the psychology y of the matter in a nutshell This is a n period of inflation and ninny many Ita have ve money A good part of tile the sta staggering gering increase in th the prices of thin things s ma may be due to the 1 discovery that men will be he mulcted rather than let lel a tailor make them Jook II cheap New York has always alwo's been e easy sy for dealers catering to the smart trade in in the tile Broadway and Fifth avenue districts but the rest of the country is not yet ct so greatly afflicted with the sort of vanity that makes men mn willing to throw thiro away their m money oner in order to keep in countenance before a tailor It is true that prices of material and labor Jabor are arc rising rising rising ris ris- ing and tailors will get ct more If they try to Lo put on the c extreme New York i idea ea they ma may find that we will all take to the neat nent and n nifty fly Kampus Kill Kut of the made ready dealer who ho has hns custo customers rs more in in makin making ends meet than in being smart Jn r i i |