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best quality of melton or something else - good cloth, with a velvet collar, buttoning down the front under a fly, well finished. For that there is a steady demand. It is not in large demand, but a steady one. Elderly gentlemen all want and wear them. Gentlemen wear them to weddings, funerals, to church, to formal occasions over evening clothes. You don't put them over a tweed jacket, but you put them over your very finest white tie and long tails. All gentlemen who pretend to dress properly have a Chesterfield overcoat in their wardrobe. It may last them a long time because it's very good and it doesn't get used for whacking around. Elderly gentlemen frequently have no other overcoat. Just cast your eye around the Cosmos Club some day and see the number of men who walk in there at the height of the season with a Chesterfield overcoat on. They'll be the elderly ones. Elderly men feel crazy in a plain tweed, raglan sleeve coat such as the young ones float around town in.

Hickey-Freeman specializes on very fine clothes and therefore was one of the few manufacturers throughout the country that made Chesterfield overcoats. They were very inventive and responsive to this suggestion that they try to stabilize some parts of the clothing industry and said that they believed they could stabilize their employment in the Chesterfield overcoat department, that they could