. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. the salesman,thinking the chances for their saleso very slight, is only too willing torefrain from upsetting a pile of thirty 134 THE BUSY MANS MAGAZilNE. or forty garments and makehimselfextra work, as he considers, fornothing. With the use of the wardrobe sys-tem, the goods being hung and classi-fied according to their various sizes,such a state of things is done awaywith, as the salesman, in drawing outan extension slide with all one sizegarments on it, is compelled to shownot only the new goods, but the oldones as well, and in many cases thecustome
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. the salesman,thinking the chances for their saleso very slight, is only too willing torefrain from upsetting a pile of thirty 134 THE BUSY MANS MAGAZilNE. or forty garments and makehimselfextra work, as he considers, fornothing. With the use of the wardrobe sys-tem, the goods being hung and classi-fied according to their various sizes,such a state of things is done awaywith, as the salesman, in drawing outan extension slide with all one sizegarments on it, is compelled to shownot only the new goods, but the oldones as well, and in many cases thecustomer seeing them on an equal wardrobe system in these stores soenhanced the value of the garmenthung therein that it became apparentthat instead of being a luxury thewardrobe was an absolute necessityto any merchant carrying ready-to-wear garments if he wished to keephis stock in proper saleable shape. The aforementioned facts led tothe origin of what is now knownthroughout Canada as the WeirWardrobe System. The patentee, Mr. Roderic Weir,. Mr. Wes. Theobald Turning First Sod for Addition to Weir Wardrobe Factory. level decides in favor of a garmentwhich has perhaps been in stock fora considerable time. Again, one of the greatest benefitsof the wardrobe system is that spacemay be used from the floor to theceiling instead of the old way of mere-ly utilizing the centre of the store. After a great struggle to overcomethe prejudice of a number of theleading merchants, exclusive storeswere opened and primitive wardrobesinstalled. Crude as thev were, the having studied and had personal ex-perience in the handling of ready-to-wear garments in both manners, feltthat the time had now come when allmerchants seeking to improve theirbusiness and enhance the value oftheir stock would be open to purchasea fixture which would not only bene-fit themselves but be a labor-savingdevice to their salesman and insuretheir goods going to the customer in afresh and bright state instead of the oldmanner o
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