Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article in the May 30 edition on Hong Kong: please explode the myth that any tailor in Hong Kong can get out a well-made garment for $25 or less in 24 hours. Of course, there are those who will do it, but the majority here prefer more time, charge more, and produce, consequently, better quality goods. Having lived here for over a year I cannot praise the place enough, but as for the bargains, and there are plenty, real quality is never dirt cheap...
...year in a complicated affair involving the shakedown of a businessman by a brace of phony policemen. In jail, Sorlut soon began singing, gave the police a score of names of prominent Parisians to whom he had supplied young girls-politicians, manufacturers, department-store directors, a hairdresser, a fashionable tailor, an art curator, a restaurateur, a countess...
Oddly enough, Soprano Sutherland started out in an entirely different style, hoping to be a Wagnerian singer. The daughter of a Sydney tailor, she took her first voice lessons from her mother, a "nonprofessional mezzo-soprano," won a number of local competitions and with the prize money decamped for London. At Covent Garden auditions, she learned that the Wagner repertory was not for her: "My voice really isn't heavy enough for that, and I soon understood that I'd been forcing it along a road that was wrong...
...says a Western resident of the British crown colony of Hong Kong, "you're always broke because there are so many things you can't afford not to buy." The casual traveler can order eight best-quality English worsted suits at $25 apiece and receive them meticulously tailored, after two hotel-room fittings, less than 24 hours later. In the same time and for even less money his wife, pointing to the pages of a Harper's Bazaar or Vogue kept on the counter of every Queen's Road tailor, can outfit herself in a copied...
...Jewish tailor, Jacobs began with the only racers that could find moving room in New York City: homing pigeons. In 1926 he tapped his pigeons' nest egg for $1,500 to buy a nag named Reveillon. Two years later, he struck up an alliance with Shakespeare-spieling Isador ("Kid") Bieber, a onetime Broadway ticket scalper famed for his big bets (he won $60,000 by backing an underdog incumbent named Woodrow Wilson...