These Trouser Seat Seams Pass "Light" Test

Have you ever had a customer complain to you about the seat seams in work trousers gaping or pulling out when subjected to an extra strain?  We hope not, but even so you may be interested in the experiences of an Ohio Manufacturer.

For quite a long time practically all of the manufacturers of men's work trousers in this territory have been using a single needle line of stitching in the seat seams.  Then one day there came a new demand.  One of the manufacturers discovered that his product was being subjected to the "light" test with disastrous results.  That is, competing salesmen would test the quality of his pants by holding them to the light and put a strain on the seat seam by pulling on each back.  The material, with this undue tension and only the single line of stitching for protection, gaped between the stitches and the prospect thought this was a quite serious condition.

Production with Style 8600 Z in the plant where the sample illustrated above was made, ranges from 325 to 350 garments per day, depending upon the size produced. NE October 1931

Miss Mitchell, Editor of The "Union Special Letter," sends us this story:

A newly married couple had just left their parents and had gone into a home of their own.  A few weeks afterward the husband lost a button off his shirt front and asked his wife to sew it on.

When he came to put on the shirt, he found to his amazement that his wife had made a button-hole big enough to fit the lid. NE