Cheap tailor

—one who makes, or claims to make, clothes to order at prices as low as and often much lower than readymade garments may be obtained for. Garments made by such tailors are usually made under practically the same conditions as readymade—by machinery and by operators instead of by journeymen tailors and hand work; the main difference being that each order is cut separately instead of several garments being cut at one time as in readymade. Unle the “cheap tailor” has facilities for obtaining his cloths and other materials direct from the mills, as have ready mad ers, and has a large busine to take care of such nece arily large purchases, there are no other advantages, as he must then buy thru jobbers, in small lots at higher prices. Because of much fraud and deceit in connection with cheap tailoring in the past, the “cheap tailor” is not always highly regarded, tho there are many inexpensiv tailors enjoying the requisit facilities, who have built-up large busine es by fair and square dealing.