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2020.13.2
Title
Weaver to Wearer Squire Suit - Trousers
Date(s)
- nd [1955-1959] (Creation)
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1
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(1932-1977)
Administrative history
Weaver to Wearer Limited was a multiple tailoring label, the retail division of manufacturers Town Tailors Ltd, established by Hector Mackenzie Frazer in about 1932. They had tailoring stores across the United Kingdom while the suits were made in factories in Leeds and Castleford. They were the cheapest of the Leeds-based multiples, for example during the 1930s they sold suits for 30 shillings, with a pair of shoes included. In 1954 they were taken over by GUS (Great Universal Stores) who also owned men's tailoring firms John Temple and Neville Reed. From the mid-1960s GUS turned many of the Weaver to Wearer stores into Neville Reed shops and the company was dissolved in 1977.
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Pair of made-to-measure tailored trousers with high waist, tapered leg and turn up cuffs (part of a two piece suit). They are made of dark blue and grey finely checked wool and have two pleats on each side of the button fly. The front hip pockets are angled and they have one jetted pocket to the right rear which fastens with a button. The waistband fastens at the front with a hook and bar, at the back sides it has tabs with buttons attached to an elastic through the rear waistband for adjustment. The fly buttons with four buttons (one missing). The inside waistband is lined in cream twill rayon and has white buttons for braces, additional lining is dark blue rayon. The pocket bags are cream cotton.
Country of Design: England
Country of Manufacture: England
Country of Design: England
Country of Manufacture: England
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Materials: wool, rayon
Measurements:
Waist - 19 1/2 inches
Rise - 15 3/4 inches
Rear rise - 20 inches
Inside leg - 30 1/2 inches
Measurements:
Waist - 19 1/2 inches
Rise - 15 3/4 inches
Rear rise - 20 inches
Inside leg - 30 1/2 inches
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Weaver to Wearer advertisement for 'Squire' made to measure suits in Object File. Priced from £6.6.0 (two piece, made-to-measure), to £7.7.0, £8.8.0, £9.9.0 and £10.10.0 depending on cloth chosen.