Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-24 | Page 1 | Cost of Suits Takes Tumble in New York

COST GF SUITS Effect of Overalls Seen in : Announcement of Several j Clothing Dealers I ' j NEW YORK. April '24. Coincident 'with the announcement thiK nearly 20.000 persons attired in overalls and old clothing were to parade here as a protest against the high cost of clothing, thirty or more clothing deal-' deal-' ersr . Including the larger stores, today to-day advertised substantial reductions in prices of ready-to-wear clothing. I Comparisons, of advertisements in j today's newspapers with thofe of .last week revealed that reductions ifci men's clothes alone averaged $5 .to S20 a suit. The rice of the ordinary grades of ready-to-wear suits, which last week averaged about $C0, has dropped to near $45 wiih smaller average av-erage reductions in shirts and, nock-wear. nock-wear. Reductions on women's clothes were even greater, one of the city's principal stores advertising reductions reduc-tions of $10 to 524.50 of certain styles of misses' spring suits, coaU' and dresses. CHICAGO. April 24. Civilian employes em-ployes of the Great Lakes' Naval Training station were forbidden to wear overalls In an order posted today. to-day. Pormits to wear denims will be granted only to those who advise the commander they ard too poor lo purchase pur-chase other apparel. ! :