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Announced Washington Tailor George Tudor after fitting William Orville Douglas, new Supreme Court Justice, for his judicial robes: "Justice Douglas has a nice figure . . . he was easy...
Died. Jacob Maged, 54, Jersey City tailor who in 1934 was jailed for three days because he charged 35? instead of 40? to press a suit of clothes, thus violating an NRA code; of cancer; in Jersey City...
...Lincoln's most active denuders. This year, again as a birthday present, Hertz has the grace to throw around Lincoln's bony shoulders a vast mantle of myth. It fits no better than Lincoln's baggy suits did, but as Editor Hertz knows, no editorial tailor will ever be able to fit formal clothes on that great torso...
...British tailors' magazine, Tailor and Cutter, called Winston Churchill, famed for his many hats, his correct but rumpled clothes, a "sartorial chameleon," declared...
...luncheon given in his honor by the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America and the Merchant Tailor Designers of America, bigheaded Bachelor Lucius Beebe, most painstaking dude of Manhattan chit-chatterers, declared: "Almost every man has either secretly or patently some feeling for clothes and would indulge his fancy far more lavishly and colorfully were it not for the jealousy, usually expressed in the form of sarcasm, by the women he encounters. ... No woman can stand seeing a man as well or painstakingly dressed as herself...