CLOTHES AND THE MAN
Are your clothes Identical or individual? Speaking, recently in London, Mr. Gordon Selfridge, of the great outfitting firm, said that they are mainly individual. Mr. : Self ridge said that the large department store had to assemble together under one roof probably a million different kinds of things, all priced at what it thought the customers would be willing to pay. As an instance of how many different things were needed in one department, Mr. Selfridge mentioned that there had to be in one store 10,765 different kinds of, stockings. He had counted up the number of ways in which the clothes he was wearing at the moment had given him. an opportunity of having something a little different from what his audience was wearing. It was over sixty, and each of those sixty ways;was not just a straight alternative, between two kinds of things. < "And I am a man," added Mr. Selfridge. "In a woman that sixty is likely to be a hundred or more. I will bet you," said Mr. Selfridge, "that there are not ten people in this room who. are wearing an identical item of clothing, and I will bet you that there are 6000 non-identi-cal features of clothing among the two imMiclred people here,"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 30
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212CLOTHES AND THE MAN Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 30
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