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...looks the merchant prince from the tip of his elegant shoes to the top of his wavy-maned, handsome head. He dresses as fastidiously as a latter-day Beau Nash. A symphony in greys, he orders as many as a dozen suits at a time from exclusive Manhattan Tailor James Bell (other customers: James Farley, Harry Truman). He always sports a deep red carnation in his buttonhole, tucks an expensive handspun, monogrammed linen handkerchief in the pocket beneath it. His silk and poplin shirts are custom-made (by Sulka) with a special high, soft collar. His oversized, flowing bow ties...
...Turinese Tailor Antonio Santomauro, who made the elaborately embroidered Mantle of Peace worn by Pope Pius XII for special ceremonies, was busily stitching away at two more peace jackets. One, of Tibet wool, double-breasted with four gold buttons and an embroidered globe carried by two small doves, will go to Harry Truman. To Joseph Stalin, courtesy of Tailor Santomauro, will go a single-breasted job, buttoned to the throat, with one embroidered dove...
...Illinois-born Les Hoffman started his career by going into business for himself in the '20s at Albion College, Michigan. His college tailor shop and cleaning concession did so well that "it took me quite a while to get used to the drop in income after I graduated." But it was not until 1939, after he had been everything from a lifeguard to a radio salesman on the West Coast, that he went into business for himself again, selling fluorescent lights in Los Angeles...
Reread today, Aiken's poems seem spotty. All too often his narrative poems, dealing with such subjects as a tailor's affair with a vampire and a Roman emperor's gloating over the dissection of an Eastern princess, seem more ridiculous than horrible. And his reflective poems frequently sink into a mindless musical torpor, in which occasional brilliant passages are overwhelmed by loose, undisciplined globs of language...
...lectures the peasantry in the bar on gentlemanly behavior. Another story tells how little Jimmy holds the sheep still while his mother shears them, watches her spin the wool into white thread, goes with her to leave the yarn at the weaver's house, and finally watches the tailor work the finished cloth up into a suit. Then comes the punch line: "The little suit fitted perfectly and on the following Sunday Jimmy was the envy of all the other village boys as he went to church...