I am now ready to announce that my customers may rest assured
that they will not only get a fashionable and well made suit of
clothing, but that they shall also feel at home in it when they
have it on.
Lest it be said that this is only a new game of brag, and to
show that all present systems which are known are without a
reliable base, I make the following
Challenge to any Tailor or Cutter of Gents’ Clothing from
Anywhere:
To cut and make a frock coat, a sack coat, a vest, a pair of
pantaloons, and a whole garment from neck to ankle without any
cross seams, for a person of any shape or form, whom none of us
have ever measured or made clothing for, we will decide by lot—
1st. By what system or rule the coat pattern shall be cut;
2d. The number and size of gores—if any—the fore-parts shall
have, and how many seams the sack coat shall have—5, 4, 3, 2—or
entirely seamless, except shoulder and sleeve seams;
3d. How many seams the pants legs shall have;
4th. All widths and lengths of the several parts of each
garment;
5th. All unforeseen questions arising from the above conditions.
Each to pay his own expenses, and all goods to be selected from
the same piece and made up in the same style.
No garment is to be tried on the person it is made for until at
a public trial, when the judges, selected by lot and who must
not know who made them, shall decide, and their decision must
be final.
This challenge shall stand good for three months, unless sooner
accepted.