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Updated: June 22, 2025
I stood and watched with awe a young American genius doing entirely Matisse-like illustrations to some notes on summer suitings. "We give our artists a free hand," said the very intelligent lady in charge of that section; "except, of course, for nudes or improprieties. And we don't allow any figures of people smoking. Some of our customers object very strongly...."
It was awful, and I began to have a terrible detestation for these Asiatic faces, which, because they are dead, become such a hideous green-yellow-white, and whose bodies seem to shrivel to nothing in their limp blue suitings. Such dead are an insult to the living. We picked our way on our trembling mounts, trying vainly to push through quickly to escape it all. But it was no good.
"We wish," said momma, "to look at gentlemen's suitings." "Yes, madam, certainly. Is it for for " He hesitated in the embarrassed way only affected in the very best class of establishments, and I felt at ease at once as to the probable result. "For this gentleman," said momma, with a wave of her hand. The Senator, being indicated, acknowledged it. "Yes," he said, "I'm your subject.
Cohen's Universal Emporium supplied the general public with ready-made clothing, and, twice a year, the travelling salesman of a New York tailoring firm visited Clarendon with samples of suitings, and took orders and measurements old Archie Christmas, who had not made a full suit of clothes for years, was able, by making and altering men's garments for the colonel's party, to earn enough to keep himself alive for another twelve months.
His shoes, embellished with pearl buttons set with rhinestones, were of the latest vogue, described in the man-who-saw column of the theater programmes. He looked, for all the world, like an advertisement for ready-tailored suitings. His companion was slighter in build but equally fastidious in appearance.
He played the triangle in our serenading and quartet crowd that used to ring the welkin three nights a week somewhere in town. "Willie jibed with his name considerable. He weighed about as much as a hundred pounds of veal in his summer suitings, and he had a 'Where-is-Mary? expression on his features so plain that you could almost see the wool growing on him.
Now, another thing that Bramley said was, 'Look here, he said, 'remember the Unattainable Elsewhere and get it. You're likely to be in London. Now the Unattainable Elsewhere, for that town, is gentlemen's suitings. For style, price, and quality of goods the London tailor leads the known universe. Wick, he said he was terribly in earnest 'if you have one hour in London, leave your measure!"
Half-tone illustrations represented young curates, some dapper, some Rugbeian and muscular, some with ascetic faces and large ecstatic eyes, dressed in jackets, in frock-coats, in surplices, in clerical evening dress, in black Norfolk suitings. "A large assortment of chasubles. "Rope girdles. "Sheeny's Special Skirt Cassocks.
Well, I'll get on to home, an' get busy on the children's summer suitings if you can call such stuff as Abe sells any sort o' suitings at all. Good-bye, girls." She left the matrons and hurried away. A moment later Jane Restless went on to the butcher's, while Mrs. Rust pottered heavily along to Smallbones' store to obtain some iron bolts for her husband.
Firio had in his hand a paper, a sort of will and testament given him at the last minute, which made him master in fee simple of the ranch where he had been servant, with the provision that the Doge of Little Rivers might store his overflow of books there forever. Behold Jack clad in the habiliments of conventional civilization taken from the stock of ready-made suitings in an El Paso store!
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