Show AN UNATTAINABLE IDEAL Chicago News My tailor is reckoned a good one I know And his bills bUls are a proof poof of his standing The prices he charges es alone ought to show ThAt a custom elite hes But I sigh to myself as hi his mode book I scan For I never can equal the man He hA lovely broadcloths and serges And tweede And his patterns are always was exclusive He makes me some clothes and lie he thinks he succeeds In the fit and his jo joy is effusive But though built on the very verJ identical I plan They are not like the clothes of the fash ate man Theres always a wrinkle at which I cant V wink And a bag where there should he no bagging The skirts wont stay straight And the V padding will sink And the waist seems uneven and sa sar ging I II I appear like an manikin stuffed d out with bran V When I try to compare with the fashion I plate man manI I 1 never CAn be so delightfully trim Or attain such a perfect proportion I wish I could get a nice fi figure ure lIke him But theres always some little distor distortion tion Though my tailor and r I do the best that we can Ye We can never neer come up to the fashion plate man |