A TAILOR IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

A TAILOR IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.

Walking along a country by-road in Suffolk (writes a friend of the C.N.) I saw an old, retired railway carriage perched high up on a grassy bank. Nothing strange in this, 'you say. But across the front, or rather the side, of the cqiitented-looking relic there were the words "A. Green, Tailor," painted in bold white letters. s A wooden stairway, barred by a pretty gate, led up the bank to where Mr. Green, a young man with a pleasant smile, sat plying his trade. "Oh, yes," he said, "this is a quiet little shop, all tucked away by itself, not even in the village. Yet my customers come from London and all parts of the country. I bought this carriage from the railway company for £20 six years ago, and my rent is half-a-crown a year!" Trade is good with the ingenious Mr. Green, of Holton," in Suffolk. He has divided his railway carriage into three sections. One is the workroom, where he keeps his machine, his goose, his iron, and other implements. In the middle is a small compartment for trimmings, buttons, and such oddments The third compartment is the fittingroom, with chairs, a long mirror, patterns on the table, and the latest fashions displayed on the walls. Here you may have a suit or a lady's costume cut as well as Bond Street itself could do it. Mr. Green served his country at Salonica as a corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and it is good to know that his ingenuity has established him in civil'life at the quaintest of country tailor's shops.