Cutters Guide-1893

[kilted2000]

http://www.costumes.org/History/100page ... sguide.htm

Here is an interesting link to a late Victorian guide for tailors.Hope it hasn't been posted here before.

[Frog in Suit]

Thank you for posting.
This page (a prospectus of the tailoring academy) mentions only three firms: Poole's, Hills (long defunct, merged into Poole in 1939) and Meyer & Mortimer. This gives an idea of Savile Row's "pecking order" at that time. Poole's shop was on Savile Row itself; I do not know Hills's address; M & M were on Conduit Street. The prospectus encourages the students to stroll around the West End ("...in the vicinity of which much fashionable tailoring can be seen in wear.") during their dinner hour!


Link: http://www.costumes.org/History/victori ... t1/109.jpg

[David Hober]

Kilted 2000,

Thank you for posting.

I liked the early four-in-hand tie illustration.

The knot looked thick I wonder - from the silk or perhaps an extra loop?