THAT CUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 974, 17 May 1930, Page 24

THAT CUT

TAILLEURS ARE £OSTLY NEW LINE TO BLAME Women who want to look as il they had been poured into their clothes must pay for the distinction. To give the slim fitted effect achieved by the new silhouette, the fashionable twopiece suit has to he perfectly cu.t and tailors’ charges, in America at least, have been mounting with the waistline. They have discovered that they are specialists and are “making hay while the sun shines.” Some fashionable shops in New York are charging as much as £3O and £.40 for the tailored product. Women are complaining bitterly, specially when, as they point out, they do not 'even get a waistcoat thrown in. A man at least receives a three-piece ensemble for his money. And why should our suits cost as much as his, they ask. There is a great deal more work on a man’s suit—funny-looking legs and torso to he fitted and pockets galore to he installed. Many smart women have been driven to the extreme of buying ready-to-w-ear suits, but the fastidious froeker feels that a suit is not. tailored unless she has stood through innumerable fittings and been “made to measure.” Here she differs from a man who frequently pays a huge sum for a ready made rather than face the tedium of fittings.

However, having paid her price, the tailored one-can console herself with the thought that she has not “paid through the nose” for a freakish or outre fashion that can only he aired on occasions. Slie will always have the satisfaction of knowing that a woman looks her best in a tailor-made, and that men have a weakness for the neat simplicity of this type of garment.