CLERGYMAN’S COAT.
In 1882 I had the following advertisement in the Tiffin papers, of which I sent a copy to the “American Tailor”:
TO THE PUBLIC.
Having spent the best part of the last ten years in working out a scientific calculation of the outlines of the human body, I have, after endless ups and downs, discovered, and worked out, an entirely new and heretofore unthought of
PRINCIPLE OF GARMENT CUTTING.
I am now ready to announce that my customers may rest assured that they will not only get a fashionable and well made suit of clothing, but that they shall also feel at home in it when they have it on.
Lest it be said that this is only a new game of brag, and to show that all present systems which are known are without a reliable base, I make the following
Challenge to any Tailor or Cutter of Gents’ Clothing from Anywhere: