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Show A "DON'T" FOR BRUSH BOYS, tho TaUor Tells How the Coat Collar I Quickly Jtuincd. The most difficult thing to fit oa a man is a coat collar, anditisthe easiest thing to get out of shape, except perhaps per-haps the knees of the trousers. A tailor molds and shapes a collar with his handa and hot goosa to conform with tho measurements meas-urements he has taken of the Ehape of an individual's shoulders, and it does 3iot take a great deal of ill usage to de-troy de-troy his work. "The worst enemy a coat collar has," said the tailor, "is the colored boy who "brushes your clothes in the barber shop, hotel or sleeping car. When he helps you on with your overcoat, he reaches under for your coattails, grasps the overcoat collar with the other hand and gives your undercoat two or three smart jerks, which pulls tlio collar down and away from the neck and bunches it en the shoulders, and tho overcoat finishes the work of destroying its shape. Thi Bhould never bo allowed under any con' yideration. "The proper way to keapthe coat col lar in placo is to shrug your Bhouldera forward after you have put the coat on. The collar will then fall into place on your nsok; the cloth will adjust itself to the shape of your shoulders and stay there. Don't pull tho collar about, and Jon't, abovo all, allow the brush boy to pull your coat out of Fhapo under th pretense of getting your overcoat or your Ehoulders.'" Brush boyev?iil pi -a?e not Kanssi Oit? Star. |