"Tailoring" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he found it an unpretentious frame building with a sign outside: "Elite Cleaners and Dyers." There were no plate-glass windows. There was nothing show-off about it. It was just a medium-sized, modestly up-to-date establishment to which lesser tailoring shops would send work for wholesale treatment. From some place in the back, puffs of steam shot out at irregular intervals. Somebody worked a steampresser on garments of one sort or another. There was a rumbling hum, as of ...
— The Ambulance Made Two Trips • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... incorrigibly vicious conduct," the sentence shall be to the guardianship of the board of managers of this school. Here they are given a good common school education and instructed in the trades of cabinet making, carpenter work, tailoring, shoemaking, blacksmithing, ...
— The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier • Charles E. Flandrau
... for that, because he was poor, he could not spend money upon him to have him taught [another] trade or art [145] or the like; [146] so he carried him to his shop, that he might teach him his craft of tailoring; but, forasmuch as the lad was perverse and wont still to play with the boys of the quarter, [147] he would not sit one day in the shop; nay, he would watch his father till such time as he went forth the place to meet a customer [147] or on some other occasion, ...
— Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp • John Payne
... could perform, such as the preparation of food, serving it out, cleaning the decks and fittings of the ship generally, together with the loading and unloading of cargo. All these operations could be readily done under the direction of permanent hands. Then shoemaking, knitting, sewing, tailoring, and other kindred occupations could be engaged in. I should think sewing-machines could be worked, and, one way or another, any amount of garments could be manufactured, which would find ready and profitable sale on landing, either among the Colonists themselves, or with the people ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth
... ago, when we decided to make tailoring a part of our training at the Tuskegee Institute, I was amazed to find that it was almost impossible to find in the whole country an educated colored man who could teach the making of clothing. We could find numbers of them who could teach astronomy, theology, Latin or grammar, but almost ...
— The Negro Problem • Booker T. Washington, et al.
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