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Article: Savile Row: the best of the old and new. (London) (All About Clothing Supplement)
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- Daily News Record
- Article date:
- January 13, 1986
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Savile Row: The Best of Old and New
It's called the strip.
Savile Row, however, is actually a square mile of London that contains the best of classic British men's tailoring, and it is undergoing a major upheaval. No one has ever disputed that Savile Row represents tailoring at its best, but in the past, it also has typified British snobbishness at its worst. That, at last, is changing, for a new generation is taking over the Savile Row tailors and a more businesslike attitude is emerging.
Gone, for example, are the days when a gentleman would walk into a Savile Row tailor and be asked by a condescending clerk if he had a reference, or when a ...