"Tailoring is the oldest craft in the world- It began when Adam andvEva sawed'fig-leaves together to cover theirt nakedness, and it has flourished ever since." Thus a leading manufacturer delivered himself in Auckland last week when discussing the new regulations maie'by the to protect the public when buying tailor-made garments. He insisted, however, that the mere antiquity of -the craft should not keep it sacred against the encroachments of invention in this age of machinery. ' Mechanical tailoring devices now produce work challenges the handmade, with an infinite superiority in" the speed of the .prodution. No other craft conceded the excellence of handwork to machine-made; whether in the legislation. "This is the result of a persistent request, for such definition from manufacturing-tailors and the public, and should prove a safeguard to the purchaser." ' -' "
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18308, 16 February 1925, Page 2
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