TAILORS INDIGNANT
"Colleges are scholastic institutions, not commercial enterprises," was the protest of tailors at Oxford when it was revealed that certain colleges there vhave been. supplying caps and gowns to undergraduates. The indignant tailors, fearing that this means the beginning of college shops, may send a petition to the Vice-Chancellor and the Government. .Mr. E. W. Attwood, who for 20 years has been one of the leading university tailors, pointed out that most of the tailors were tenants of the colleges. "It is grossly unfair for the colleges to take away our trade. They are exempt from income tax; we have no such relief." He said the sale of caps and gowns did not yield any profit, but served to introduce undergraduate customers. "Shops at public schools constitute one of the greatest menaces to tailors at the present time," added Mr. Attwood. • "If the colleges do the same ,we might s»s.'well "give up busi'hess."J":' -■■;■.■■■; \i:> ■ V ..•-■•;" '■' ■"■■ '■-.■■ • .■■<■" ■'
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1935, Page 4
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157TAILORS INDIGNANT Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1935, Page 4
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