Word: tailoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ithaca justice on their side, determine that he shall take it, suited or not. On application to a lawyer it is found that a student, when making a bargain for a suit, must specify at the time that he shall not take it unless it fits, otherwise the worthy tailor can bulldoze him into taking it. Let the students be on their guard. We had lived until now in the vain hallucination that such a thing was always implied, but we have been wofully mistaken. Lest any of you may be compelled to take a suit from this mammoth establishment...
...seed in his hair and wore a hat and a suit of clothes that attracted more attention on Tremont street than he expected, but he had a fair allowance of brains under his hat, and a pair of shears in the hands of a barber and a tailor of my acquaintance was all that was necessary to put him on an equal footing with most of his Boston contemporaries. And I must say that I felt rather proud of Butterfield as we strolled about town, and rather envied him his innocence, freshness and strength. For, in the first place...
...Collegian was not started until 1830. But he was a frequent contributor to the paper, and the reader, in running over its table of contents, meets many familiar titles from his pen. "To My Companions," "The Dorchester Giant," "The Cannibal," "The Spectre Pig," "Evening, by a Tailor," and "The Height of the Ridiculous," - these, with many others in the volume, are credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes. John Osborne Sargent, writing under the pseudonym of Charles Sherry, was the managing editor; and his then prolific pen is responsible for a large part of the Collegian, as before of the Register...
...John Jones, the Piccadilly tailor who recently died and bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum a choice collection of art objects, gave also, it appears, the sum of $1,000,000 to another public institution of exceptional worth and desert. At Ventnar, on the Isle of Wight, there was founded, some years ago, a hospital for consumptives, on the cottage system, and to this Mr. Jones has left his $1,000,000. The hospital is one of the youngest in the country and one of the best...
...They would like you as one of their student traders, and your order for some sort of a garment, if only a trouser, would be appreciated by them and prove a satisfaction to you. These goods are immediate in style." - [Extract from a tailor's circular about college...