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Take me to my tailor. The Italian Job 1969 starring Michael Caine & Noel Coward & Benny Hill & Tony Beckley & Raf Vallone & Rossano Brazzi & Maggie Blye & Irene Handl & John le Mesurier & Fred Emney et al, director Peter Collinson
A gentleman never talks about his tailor. Nick Cave
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets – when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester. Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester
Costume designers don’t care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I dress. Ladies: The most important thing in clothing is to find a good, inexpensive tailor, because clothes at the stores are made for bodies that are anomalies. Ginnifer Goodwin
Th’ embroider’d suit at least he deem’d his prey;
That suit an unpaid tailor snatch’d away. Alexander Pope, The Dunciad II:117
Thy gown? why, ay; — come, tailor, let us see’t.
O mercy, God! what masquing stuff is here?
What’s this? a sleeve? ’tis like a demi-cannon:
What, up and down, carv’d like an apple-tart?
Here’s snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,
Like to a censer in a barber’s shop:
Why, what i’ devil’s name, tailor, call’st thou this! William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew IV iii 86
Soon entrepreneurs started building factories to house the stocking frames ... These frame-knitter workshops with their high long windows to let in light were all built together around 1820. Mark Williams s2e2: More Industrial Revelations: What to Wear? Discovery 2005
The knitters took their employers to court with little effect. So, under the mythical leadership of one General Lud well-organised gangs of knitters smashed the frames of any employers who broke the law. ibid.
A sewing machine did away with ten tailors. ibid.
To the naked eye, a suit appears to consist of two parts, a jacket and trousers. But those two seemingly solid parts are composed of four different fabrics: cotton, silk, mohair and wool. And those four fabrics are cut … The Outfit 2022 starring Mark Rylance & Johnny Flynn & Zoey Deutch & Dylan O’Brien & Simon Russell Beale & Nikki Amuka-Bird et al, director Graham Moore
Those men are customers but they are not gentlemen. ibid.
Like it or not, now you’re part of the family. ibid. gangster
Mable: Why me?
Leonard: Because you’re the rat.
So at the finish you must reconcile yourself to failure. ibid.