'I WANT YOUR TROUSERS!'

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 61, 5 November 1912, Page 7

'I WANT YOUR TROUSERS!'

A FASHION FORECAST. The following communication from a West African trader to a Leeds manufacturer is published in Men’s Wear: “My good Friend and Sir,—This that I write is to make you immediately aware and obvious that I am wish to sell you clothes, and especially your trousers here in. this country. Here there is great chance for English clothes, and great future for English trousers. Ah, very great. “Here, where as everyone wishes to be up to fashion, and everything all right to wear which is English and proper, especially trousers. I am old established being now gone many years, and money with mo is good for I am faithful I am always, and when 1 have your clothes the trousers especially you will have money remittances when 1 have sell them. “If you would prefer so I can trade with you goods from this' country, .goods that are quite all right, or will sell for cash. If for cash, though, you must send money before I send goods. It will ho alh right. i “Sir, I want' your trousers, everyone here wants your trcjusei’S which have a great,.future, n il “I should Tike also English boots if you can arrange, they* arc also in fashion, and I' sell well. If you remit them I remit you, .cash, every time all ri|ht. I 'trust good' friend' you ‘send ! trousers and boots, especially your trousers.”