Excerpt from The Clothing Trades Industry
This fact arises, not because really excellent tailoring is not carried on by other nations, but from the fact that Americans and Continentals can travel with the least irritating notice if dressed in West End clothes. The best in English tailoring is unobtrusively graceful, and so far has been the monopoly of West End houses with centuries of reputation and association with the dim of the world behind them.
The Clothing Trades are not considered to cover hat and cap manufacture, shirt or underwear, blouse or-dressmaking, ties or hosiery, glove making, or boot and shoe manufacture, which although articles of clothing, have by custom come to be recognized as branches of manufacture distinct from that known by custom and common consent as the Clothing Trades.
A better and more descriptive term is coming into general use, i.a., The Tailoring Trades Wholesale Clothing and Bespoke Tailoring now being separate sections under the one Tailoring Trades Board.
Possibly there is no other trade (or group of trades, which it really is) that has met with so much adverse criticism as has been meted out to this necessary and important staple industry, immortalized by Carlyle and Kingsley.
Mankind expresses judgment upon the texture and the craftsmanship with the same freedom as it expresses opinions upon its food and drink. Taste, however, is an instinct, whereas judgment is the outcome of trained observation and experience.
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