MILLIONAIRE’S SUITS

Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22063, 9 September 1941, Page 8

MILLIONAIRE’S SUITS

BLITZ VICTIMS NOW WEARING THEM LONDON, July 11. Suits made in London for an American millionaire have gone back across the Atlantic. They will be handed on to London working men left by air raids with nothing but what they stand up in. And the millionaire has given his London tailors fresh orders for five lounge suits and two sports outfits, so helping Britain to pay for JJ.S. aid in the war.

The business magnate who made this .gesture has bought his clothes from London for more than 20 years, and his tailors have made suits for Americans since 1861.

For 40 years past their representatives have toured American cities every spring and autumn, with samples of suitings, shirtings, ties, stocks, dressing gowns and so on. Advising clients of this itinerary beforehand, they take rooms in well-known hotels, where the customer is received exactly as though he were visiting the Strand in London. Parlour E on the ground floor of the Murray Hill Hotel, New York, has been so used for every trip during the last 26 years.

Mahomet, on the other hand, goes to the mountain too. In peace time more visitors arrive in London for its tailors from the United States, South America and the British Empire than for all Britain’s ancient monuments, night clubs and even the Derby itself.