BUTTONLESS CLOTHES.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 3 (Supplement)

BUTTONLESS CLOTHES.

There was intense excitement (declares the Daily Mail) in bachelor circles in London when the news of the approaching arrival of Mr. Porter, of California, without a button to lus clothes, became gefneral'ly layown'. Mr. Porter believes that wo shall be better and happier men without 'our buttons, It is. possible that an invention like ' Mr. Porter's may muke many cheerful happy homes. It might even save the country the expense of oh? Francis Jeune's salary. A sympathetically inclined Daily Majl reporter looked in yesterday on a well-known &tm of tailors to condole with them upon the impending revolution of their business. Ho found them oalm and not afraid. "Buttonless clothes?" said they. "Why, we have been making what are virtually buttonkss clothes for centuries almost. 1 Dinner jackets, for instance, are notoriously not meant to button. Frock coats are often cut not to button. In fact, it is our custom to ask beforehand whether such ■coats are required to button or not, and we cut the cloth accordingly. The buttons, are merely ornamental. Ono of our customers has his waistcoats made to lace, though certainly the practice is not common." And as for trousers— well, we shotfld like to have as many sovereigns as. we have made pairs of buttonless trousers. They «re made with elastics on the sides, like old men's boots."