=Overcoats, Silk or Satin Lined Throughout=--Require from 4 to 5 yards.
=Vests=--¾ yard, 32 or 54 inches wide. Serge, Alpaca, Italian cloth or silk, for outside back. 1 yard 20 inch fancy sateen, for inside body lining.
=Trousers=--½ yard 20 inch colored sateen, for waist band lining.
=Dress Coats=--Prince Alberts, 3 yards 30 inch silk, for the former, and 4 yards, for the latter.
=Tuxedo Facing=--1 yard heavy corded or fancy weave silk.
=Dress or Prince Albert (fancy)=--7/8 yard heavy corded or fancy weave silk.
=Velvet Collars for Overcoats=--vary in width from 4½ to 6 inches wide on the bias. This may be determined when velvet collar is ripped off by measuring width.
When new buttons are required, replace with as near as possible to the original.
When using silk, and buttonhole twist, match cloth as near as can be had.
Under this lesson is explained the care of clothes. How to keep them looking fresh and clean. How to be well dressed.
=Care of clothes=: Cleaning, brushing, repairing and pressing frequently is a step in the right channel, for a man's appearance depends largely upon the care he takes of his clothes. Clothes should be brushed often especially after being worn in the dust and dirt, and should be hung up in a clean place where they will be out of the dust. Coats and vest should always be placed on coat hangers together to retain their shape, and to be ready for wear when wanted. The loop at the back of the coat collar, should never be used to hang coats up by but for a few minutes, as the weight of garments will pull the collar out of shape.
Trousers after being brushed thoroughly, should be turned inside out, and placed on hangers, by doing this you are reversing the folds and wrinkles that have formed while wearing, thereby allowing the cloth to fall back into place. It is impossible to prevent trousers bagging at the knees, but may be prevented in this way. Fasten a piece of silk to the forepart of trousers on the inside to both leg seams across top and bottom of silk, seven inches above and ten inches below the knee, being careful when sewing not to let the stitches show through on the out side. Another suggestion and a good one, is to buy two pairs trousers with each suit (except a dress suit, then it is not necessary) and wear them alternately, two days at a time, and have them pressed each time you change, and turned inside out each night.