Word: tailoring
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...four North Koreans, it turned out, had carried bundles of civilian clothes (including a coat bearing the label of a Seoul tailor), faked South Korean identity cards, rations for 15 days and $4,000 in U.S. money. Obviously, they had intended to infiltrate South Korea, but why had they jeopardized their mission by the ambush of the U.S. Jeep? Likeliest explanation: they thought they had been spotted by a U.S. patrol and had therefore opened fire...
...would like to see an authentic and conservative old-time men's shop, climb the stairs at 4 Linden St. to the atmospheric hideout of Duncan Macandrew, merchant tailor. Outfitting the distinguished and conservative in a manner reminiscent of Saville Row, this shop sells hand-knitted Harris tweed hose and the 1937 four-inch-wide necktie in an incredible collection of haberdashery...
...cares more for his belly than he does for Britain-the sort of waiter baiter who considers himself a gourmet because he speaks menu French and probably reads the food page in Playboy. And of course he is a martini crank ("vodka not gin, shaken not stirred"), a tailor's dummy (Benson, Perry and Whitley, 9 Cork Street, London W.1), and a blood sportsman who would rather hunt quail (Eunice Gay son) than Red birds...
Light-skinned Daniel Raubenheimer, a retired small-time tailor who drew a $14 monthly pension as a Colored man, is now entitled...
...book consists of ten autobiographical pieces that take Miller from his Brooklyn boyhood through his apprenticeship in a tailor's shop to the hard life of a literary bum in Paris. Bits are wonderfully done with vivid scenes of jazzed-up action, like an early silent movie full of custard pies, female underclothes and slightly zany captions...