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Show A "DON'T" FOR BRUSH BOYS. The Tailor Tells How the Coat Collar Is Quickly Buined. The most difficult thing to fit on a man is a coat collar, and it is the easiest thing to get out of 6hape, except perhaps per-haps the knees of the trousers. A tailor molds and shapes a collar with his hands and hot goose to confornwith the measurements meas-urements he has taken of the shape of an individual's shoulders, and if does not take a great deal of ill usage to destroy de-stroy his work. "The worst enemy a coat collar has," 6aid the tailor, "is the colored boy who brushes your clothes in the barber 6hop, 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 the collar down and away from the neck and bunches it on the shoulders, and the overcoat finishes the work of destroying its shape. This Bhould never be allowed under any consideration. con-sideration. "The proper way to keep the coat collar col-lar in place is to shrug your shoulders forward after you have put the coat on. The collar will then fall into place on your neck; the cloth will adjust itself to the shape of your shoulders and stay there. Don't pull the collar about, and don't, abovo all, allow the brush boy to pull your coat out of shape under the pretense of getting your overcoat on your shoulders. " Brush boys will pleaso note. Kansas Jity Star. |