Cooke Knows The Worth Of Clothes.
A Woman’s View
jyjß F. R. COOKE sighs for the day when the scissors shall become forever venerable. He is demanding a high standard in railway employees’ uniforms, for of all men is he not the one to know that “clothes make the man’’ ? The knowledge of the past is not lost on him, for under his transforming fingers have not men come in dejected, wearing the very quality of their clothes in their souls, and gone forth with new courage, reclothed ? “A Man is by his Tailor created into a Nobleman, and clothed not only with Wool but with Dignity and a Mystic Dominion—is not the fair fabric of Society itself, with all its royal mantles and pontifical stoles, whereby, from nakedness and dismemberment, we are organised into Politics, into nations, and a whole co-operating Mankind, the creation ... of the Tailor alone?” B.E.S.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19060, 3 May 1930, Page 8
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