TWO=PANTS SUITS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1942, Page 4

TWO=PANTS SUITS

DEFENDED FROM ECONOMY STANDPOINT. AMERICAN PAPER’S VIEW. The War Production Board’s ban on two-pants suits is very questionable as a device for the conservation of cloth. As a matter of fact, it is quite likely to have just the opposite effect. Every man knows from experience that a coat will outwear a pair of trousers. It simply does not get nearly as much hard usage. In the case of those who do their day’s work in a chair and then spend the evening in another chair, a coat may outwear two or three pairs of pants. For this reason, many men have always bought twopants suits, or, if a one-pants number struck their fancy, they have had an extra pair of trousers specially made of the same fabric. The WPB rules against trouser cuffs, pleats, overcoat belts, patch pockets and the like make sense. But it is hard to see how the ban on the second pair of trousers can serve the same purpose. In fact,, it might help to let a man buy a third pair so long as his coat is still serviceable and presentable . That would be getting the equivalent of three victory suits with a saving of two coats.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.