What a Cheek! If a stranger, a person you had never seen before, came up to you in I "the street, and asked you for a pound I Ito help pay for his suit—what would J yon do ? i You'd get very angry, wouldn't you ? j I You'd give him a pretty cold look. i i * I "What a cheek!" you'd say. I And then you would go your way, ! inuttering beneath your breath—teiljing yourself you had enough to do with your money, without paying other ipeople's bills. j i Well, now, listen to this. j j So long a.s you pay £5 for your suit jat the eredit-and-cash tailor's shop, ' j'ou are helping to pay for other fellows' oiothes —other fellows who geb I their suits on terms —and then run i away without paying. j Naturally enough, the tailor does not : want to be the loser, so he generously distributes tho amount of that suit among bis good marks—makes them pay for it —and there you are. Can't you se« the sense of my argument ? Can't you understand how unfair the old-time Credit-and-Cash Tailoring System is under such conditions? Tea as plain as a pikestaff to mc. Now, if every man paid cash for hi<» suit, there would be holkxlv to run up tailoring bills for you to unknowingly square v.'>. and so you would Ix- paying for YOUR SUlT—and that at a" low figure, i That's exactly how I reasoned things out :i few years ago. T looked at. the tailoring world from both standpoints— from the tailor's standpoint and from the customer's standpoint, and I found the system faulty throughout. And then T at onw set out to remedy things, and T started my Cash System, which treats mc fairly and treats YOU fairly. That is why I you to come tr. mc for your next Tailor-made Suit to Measure. I buy for cash, ami I will make you a genuine tailor-mnde suit, for c,ash. for o.'s, 635, 755. fully guar- : anteed to please you. Tf I don't • please you, I will return all your money. That's fair enough, isn't it? See my beautiful new Summer Suii- . ings now. 555, 635, Tns for genuine Tailor-made Suits to Order at
0E6116E OAwSES LIMITED, "The Modern Tailor," j 706 COLOMBO STREET (Next Steel'e and opposite Kiucaid's;* j CiLtiASTCHUIiCH-
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13906, 3 December 1910, Page 2
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