DISASTROUS BARGAIN.
The decision of the Association of French Tailors to charge an extra 10 per cent. to all customers whose Avaistliije is over 40in. recalls, says the Morning Post, the case of the enterprising Midland tailor Avho, in order to attract customers, advertised tfcat for a space of two weeks he Avould book orders for suits at the low cost of £2 a suit. The next morning a whale of a man GMt. high and weighing about 20 stone entered the shop and asked to be measured for one of the bargain suits. “It’ll cost me money.” said the tailor after surveying the proportions of his customer, “but I’ll make J’ou the suit on condition you recommend me to your friends.” The man agreed, and the suit was made. Fn r e days later there entered the shop a man about 7ft. high and weighing about 30 stone. “My brother Tom told me to coom to ’ee,” he boomed to the dumbfounded tailor; “I want ’ee to make me six suits like 'ee made for ’im.”
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Putaruru Press, Volume III, Issue 86, 18 June 1925, Page 4
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177DISASTROUS BARGAIN. Putaruru Press, Volume III, Issue 86, 18 June 1925, Page 4
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