Excerpt from Tempered Clothing: An Investment in Good Appearance D ID you ever realize that most fail ures in this world come from poor foundations? Of course you have heard in church of that house built upon the rock Which stood firm while its neighbor built upon sand was swept away. And you have read of pyramids and fabrics Which have resisted the ravages of forty centuries in Egypt. And the success magazines tell us of men who have shot up into fame because the testing time showed they were built of good stuff. But in Spite of all this information and these preachments how much do you really know about honest materials, solid foundations, and their relation to real and permanent values? How many sellers or wearers of Clothing know any thing definite about whether proper foundations are put into their clothes and how they are put there? It is a safe guess that to the average man cloth is cloth, nothing more. Just as pigs were pigs in the story - even if they were rats or elephants. He would think it unmanly probably to be a judge of fabrics or to know anything except his Choice in style, color and price. The discriminating man is interested in know ing what makes his soup so tasty or why the roast has such a wonderful flavor or how his wife makes her rolls so light; and no sane man would fail to watch the builders of his house to see that they put real cement in its foundation and sea soned lumber into its walls. But to the subject of clothing - one of the three fundamental human needs - men ordi marily bring much less understanding and informed interest than to either food or shelter. To be sure just now some menare beginning to show an interest in fabrics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.