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Show MEN'S CLOTHES PIES DECLINE I Makers Hasten to Explain That Real Cut Won't Come Until Spring I CHICAGO, Sept. 26 A slow but steady decrease in retail prices and la 10 to 20 per cent slash In the consumer's con-sumer's prices on men's clothing with a gradual general return to normal prices, was predicted by a leading dc- H partment store and clothing manufacturer manufac-turer Immediate reductions in retail prices In men's clothing, following the cuts in Taw materials announced this week are not to be expected, the manufac turers said, because the materials in the present fall and winter suits wero purchased lasts pring. "An orderly, progressive reorganiza-t.on reorganiza-t.on of commerce," is now under wav Marshall Field & Co., one of the larg' est department stores in the countrv said in an official statement. The company com-pany warns, however, against a period ' of reaction which may set in after the initial decrease In prices. "The mill prices for spring 19-H show reductions of from 10 to 20 per cent," Alfred Decker, manufacturer of a popular brand of men's clothing said, "but as the cost of labor Is not apt to be reduced, too much must not bo expected for the next spring The reduction to the consumer will probably prob-ably be from 10 to 20 per cent." Ja |