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Show ,THE COST OF I MEN'S CLOTHING. The newspapers printed a dispatch I a few das ago predicting somewhat higher prices for men's clothing this fall. Conditions growing out of tho war, and that advancing cost of labor aro named as causes. The man who buys a suit ot clothes of a first class tailor Is assessed heavily nowadays. There aro a groat many men who used to get this grado of garments for about $30.00 $35.00, (who today are paying $45.00 and$E0. Tho labor organizations have forced up the price of garment making, and public sentiment requires tho tailor to maintain his workshop In a moro sanitary condition. This advancing cost must tend to help the ready mado clothing trade. It so proves In tho field of feminine apparel. A great many women who formerly used to patrontzo dress-makers dress-makers now buy clothes direct from tho shop. Of courso as tho wealth of tho country advances, a great mnny moro men can nfford to pay high prices. Hut many of them ore feeling that tho production of custom mado clothes for their Individual requirements require-ments has become too expenslvo nn affair. Tho ready mado clothing storo has to carry In stock an assortment sufficient suf-ficient to fit tall men, short men. fat men, and thin men. It must take n good capital. Tho rapid changes In stylos constantly threaten losses. The tendency of the times must be to favor fav-or the larger storo that Is enterprising enodgh to advertise, and to crowd out the small shop that feels It can't afford It. People tend to become moro particular parti-cular about tho fit of their clothes. Tho man who used to bo satisfied with any old baggy garments that would cover his nakedness now oxpects tho ready mado man to produco or alter something that will lit his physical Idiosyncrasies. To meet all theso, demands de-mands is quite a problem. Tho ready made man needs an eye for form and no little mechanical skill to make theso adaptations'" correctly. |