Cloth Supplied
Cloth Supplied

Summary/Abstract: When I was a boy, some tailors’ shop signs (if a tailor had a sign at all, as most worked at home in straightened circumstances, with only a few customers knowing about them) would state that they undertook to cut suits from cloth supplied by the customer. Cloth supplied did not always mean something bought in a shop: often new clothes would be made up from old. More than once I was given an old suit of my father’s. On these occasions the tailor would ask, “Adjustment to fit?” Then he made a new suit out of the old.

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