U-S.A. INVASION
ARMY OF BRITISH TAILORS ONE ORDER VALUED' AT £20,000 The United States are now getting £2, 000,000 worth of Savile Row tailored men's wear from Britain a year. One New York housed "famous as "outfitters to gentlemen" has just received in a single order £20,000 worth of British tweeds, suitings, ties and shirtings. The crate, marked "Britain Delivers The Goods," is displayed in the middle of one of their windows in Madison Avenue. The suits are selling at anything from twelve to twenty guineas (fifty-eight to one hundred dollars). The demand for British men's wear grows so strongly from month to month, despite Hitler's "total war," that a special retail export group is now being formed by Britain's tailors, bootmakers and saddlers. The vanguard of an invading army of fitters from 300 British tailors are already on their Avay to the States, complete with samples of next spring's suitings and taking their tape measures with \them. American men continue to look to London as American women used to look to Paris.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 271, 14 February 1941, Page 6
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173U-S.A. INVASION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 271, 14 February 1941, Page 6
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