FROM SAVILE ROW

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21245, 16 October 1940, Page 3

FROM SAVILE ROW

SUITS CROSSING ATLANTIC AMERICANS GROW STOUTER j One thousand suits from London’s | Savile Row are crossing the Atlantic I every month in spite of the war, | writes an overseas observer. ! Most of them are going to AmeriI cans who used to come to England ! once a year. Their measurements, .'mailed to London with their order, vary very slightly. Americans, , Savile Row reports, are .growing 1 rather stouter. In fact, the only losses of weight noted since war be- ; gan are in officers back from Dunkirk. Many of them have lost a stone. i After paying duty, each suit costs its American wearer between £2O and £3O. The wearer usually leaves the choice ol' material to his London j tailor; and one of them orders as i Smart Argentine men are also following London fashions and a ! wealthy citizen of Buenos Aires has ! increased the export of English suits ; and shoes to the Argentine by suggesting to his London tailor that, for | every Argentine patron who visited ! England, there were twenty Argen- ; tines who would buy suits and shoes j from Mayfair if Mayfair would come ! to them. So today the well-dressed Argentine has the new season patterns i sent to him with minute measurement directions, and in this wav the 1 st Lon ; m tf ilor •re d e s : Buenos Aires in suits of English cut. There is only one difference, the Argentine prefers silk linings, i Similarly one famous London .-hoemaker is sending two «.f his ] -k it led workers to the. United States ■ Mayfair they now build n each last -hoc d boots that are iac.eiUiiicMly exact.