Word: kilgour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spirit Levels & Polaroid. "The first thing American clients say is 'Don't give me an English suit,' " says Louis Stanbury, partner of Kilgour, French & Stanbury. "I tell them if they want a sack suit they should go to Brooks Brothers." What Stanbury and his confreres have done is to marry English and American tailoring into a "mid-Atlantic cut." This is somewhat arrogantly described as "not quite what an Englishman would wear," but with more shape than the typical U.S. suit. Nor is shape the only compromise. Lacking central heating, Englishmen prefer fabrics weighing 15 ounces...
Magic Ingredient. Kilgour, French & Stanbury, whose clients include Novelist Patrick Dennis, David Merrick and CBS Chairman William Paley, thought nothing of fitting two vicuna overcoats for a 20th Century-Fox executive in the VIP lounge of the London Airport while he was between planes. Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor Erich Leinsdorf remembers that "whenever I played at Festival Hall, Stanbury would go there and study my motions so he could improve my full-dress suit...
...example, the Adams House Arts Festival will illustrate its theme May 14-20 with samples of Russian culture drawn from throughout the Harvard community. Yet few at Harvard have been aware of them. Much of the Kilgour Collection of rare copies and first editions in Russian literature and music, now in Houghton Library, will be on display in6Next time you're walking beneath a chandeller in Dunster's Junior Common Room, look up. You'll see some of Dunster's arts festival up there too. The Dunster festival emphasizes the visual arts...