PRICE OF TAILOR-MADE SUITS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 166, 9 April 1921, Page 9

PRICE OF TAILOR-MADE SUITS

RECENT REDUCTIONS. Tailor-mado suits are to bo obtained in Wellington to-day—from . some firms at least—at prices appreciably below those which were ruling some months or even some weeks ago. A Dominion reporter was informed by the head of. one of the bast-known tailoring establishments of the city that bis firm was selling highclass suit# at a reduction of fully two to two arid a half guineas on the prices which had been charged no further back than a month or six weeks. “I am taking orders this month for tlhe better-class suits at prices ten pgr cent, below the prices of last mouth—for cash, said the tailor referred to. It is purely a.question of giving the cash customei an innings, and reducing the stock ot high-priced stuff-which may be to our mutual benefit. The reduction on s'i (s of the more ordinary kind during the past six weeks 'has also been practically two guineas. Of cour?C. 1 am speaking for my own business. I believ? we are pretty nearly at bo tom now> lor a goni many months to come, because both wholesalers and retailers have ceased to place any further import orders for the present. I anticipate that so far as choice goods are concerned in a very tew months there will be a decided shortage '“AnothOT tailor told the reporter that suite fi'hioh his firm had been sril'iig lot 1.1 15 and 16 guineas some months agu were now- down to 13, 14, and -'. un ® a3 a resnectively. A third, also conducting a tagTuS, had a rather different sta eD Le to miiki! He saril that no doubt cheapen suite -ere to be had but only from firms , which had taught certain lines at a favourable figure, and could consequently afford to reduce the cost o. them to the customer.