TRAVELLING TAILORS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1941, Page 6

TRAVELLING TAILORS

AMBASSADORS FROM SAVILE ROW. SUITS SOLD TO UNITED STATES CLIENTS. Eminent citizens of the United States, including industrialists, statesmen society folk and financiers, have been showing their sympathy witlr Britain by ordering more suits than ever from a ‘band of travelling tailors, who have just returned to Savile Row and its neighbourhood. Among these “ambassadors for men’s wear were representatives not only of the tailors but of the haberdashers and the bootmakers as well. For sixty years they have been visiting America every spring, and autumn (thev are going back again this year) and "the orders booked are well up to what they were before the war. One highly-placed executive, who had already bespoken eleven suits for himself, gave a second salesman an order for five costume lengths for his wife/rather than send him empty away. Another distinguished man ordered fourteen suits; a woman member of an old New York family, ten costume lengths; and a- well-known politician wrote out a cheque for 1000 dollars, remarking that, if his order did not run to that sum, the balance could go towards a Spitfire. Expensive as these suits are, and one maj r cost as much as £3O, there is more than that in it for Britain’s war chest. As the designs are exclusive, other American men will soon ask for them, too, and eventually they will go into suits turned out by mass production, with a resulting demand upon the mills of Yorkshire and Scotland.