Tailors Collection (page 3)

Firefighters in action in Commercial Road, East London
Firefighters in action with hosepipes at business premises, 81/85 Commercial Road, East London, 18 June 1957. The first floor, a large tailors workshop

Women on upper floor where an escape took place
Women inspecting the upper floor of a building where an escape took place during a fire

Advert for Wilkinsons riding breeches 1918
Wilkinsons Naval, Military and Civil tailors. Riding breeches, maximum allowance of freedom of movement, complete absence of strain over seat when in the saddle

Burba clothing advertisement
Advertisement for Burba of Berkeley Street, London, ladies tailors. Date: 1927

Street scene near St Pauls Cathedral, London. Date: 20th century

Reflections by Arthur Watts
A man tries on civilian clothes in a tailors or draper and considers his reflection which brings back memories of his time spent serving as a British soldier during World War One. Date: 1919

Advertisement for Shoolbreds ladies shirts
Advertisement for Shoolbreds ladies tailor-made shirts, made by expert tailors in the mens shirt department. Materials available are spun silk, taffeta silk, spunella

French tailor fitting John Bull with a Jean Debry 1799
A French revolutionary tailor fitting John Bull with a Jean Debry (or de Bry) coat, in 1799, named after the President of the National Convention in revolutionary France

Robes of a Viscountess for the Coronation, 1937
The robes of a viscountess for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937, tried on at one of the Court tailors. The cape has 2 1/2 bars of miniver and the coronet has sixteen silver balls

Tailors dummy, head and shoulders
A tailors dummy, head and shoulders, with wavy blonde hair and long eyelashes

Rooftop Tailors
Tailors working on a roof during a heat wave, cutting and sewing cloth for suits, Regent Street, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Tailors Working Outdoors
Tailors working on a roof during a heat wave, cutting and sewing cloth for suits, Regent Street, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Very tatty sandwichboard man advertises smart Gents suits
Visual irony of a very tatty sandwich board man advertising a Gentleman Tailor and his smart suits, retailing for 12/6. Date: circa 1890s

The Coronation of George VI - Celebrations at St Helier
The Coronation of George VI - Celebrations and decorations on the street at St Helier, Jersey - The corner of King Street (now pedestrianised)

The Story of Donkey-Skin. From Playhour (1958)

LCC-LFB AFS volunteer measured for uniform, WW2
A volunteer for the newly formed AFS being kitted out with his uniform. The Service was created in 1938 to supplement the regular firefighters on the home front, to tackle fires from bombing raids

Sewing and repairing Metropolitan Police uniform
A long line of tailors sewing and repairing Metropolitan Police uniforms at a police clothing store in Lambeth Road, south east London

Village tailor
A village tailor. Sweden. 1790s. Date: 1790s

Indian Street Tailors
Indian street tailors with their sewing machines. Date: 1930s

Marwari Tailors, India - Manufacture Clothing Fabric
India - Manufacture of Clothing Fabric - Marwari Tailors. Marwaris are a Rajasthani people (an Indo-Aryan ethnic group), who inhabit the Rajasthan region of India. Date: 1904

Embroidering, India - Manufacturing decorated Fabric
Three generations of Indian Embroiderers - Manufacturing beautifully decorated clothing fabric. Date: 1906

Four and Twenty Tailors went to kill a snail, the best man amongst them durst not touch her tail. She put out her horns like a little Keyloe cow

Gulliver & Clothes
The Lilliputian tailors measure Gulliver for a new suit of clothes. Date: First published: 1726

Advert for Skinner & Grant, Gentlemens tailors, 1920s, London Date: 1920s

National Workshop (Tailors) in the Prison of Clichy, Paris
Tailors at work in the debtors prison of Clichy in Paris, working away while one inmate reads aloud from the newspapers of the day

Tunisia - Sfax - Rue de la Republique
Rue de la Republique, Sfax, Tunisia. The British Vice Consulate is in the middle distance on the left-hand side of the street

Military tailor and in family in Bethnal Green
This is a room occupied by a military tailor and his family at No. 10 Hollybush Place in Bethnal Green in the East End of London

Dryden Knize & Co
ERNST DRYDEN Tailors at work in Knize & Co, a shop which Dryden did many designs for

Boy at Tailors Shop
A young boy in a sailor blouse is measured for a new outfit. His mother, in a fox fur stole, looks on. Tailors sit cross legged on a table while another cuts cloth

Tailors Work in Slum
A group of men, women and children work as tailors in a slum apartment. They sit on the floor of a very bare room to sew

Tailors Workshop
A busy tailors workshop

Tailor / Draper
A girl leans her bicycle against the window of THE EMPIRE - Williams, Tailors and drapers. But where this is, we do not know

Futuristic automated tailoring establishment
A futuristic automated tailoring establishment, where the equipment does all (or most of) the work

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