The Tailor Made Woman In History.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2624, 26 October 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Tailor Made Woman In History.

Thoro exists a common delusion that the tailor mado woman is ' a product of tho nineteenth century, whereas a more or less serious consideration of tho Subject would at once prove that in the olden days of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries all tho women wore tailor mado clothes. Havo wo not authentic evidence In tho records of Henry VIII's expenses of payments made to the tailor, John Malt, for Anno Boleyn, and litis it not been chronicled that when specially pleased with her servant "Jane tho fool" tlie Queen Mary would order her to be shaved by the barber and supplied with a new suit from tho tailor? And can we not even oito as a further proof tho existence of tliat luckless tailor of Katherine's on whom Petruchio exercises such unmanly pranks, deriding the fashions this most amiable woman was so anxious to contemplate? Not alono had this enterprising tradesman the gowns of tho fair lady under his care, but he was also her milliner, as the text of the immortal "Taming of tho Shrew" will 6how. Did ho not make that paltry cap which Petruchio likens so unsympathctically to "a custard coffin, a bauble, a silken pie?"