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Census Occupations - Tailor and Clothier

Below are some resources I recommend if any of your ancestors in your family tree were Tailor and Clothiers.

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Description: Someone who worked in the tailoring industry making, repairing and altering men's clothes such as jackets, shirts and trousers. In London, Saville Row became synonymous with tailoring and remains the place to go for a quality suit. This type of tailoring was all done by hand, producing unique items on each occasion. See also: Tailor, Tailor's Machinist, Tailoress, Tailor's Apprentice, Tailor's Assistant, Tailor's Cutter, Tailor's Labourer, Tailor's Presser, Tailor Coat Hand, Tailor Hand.

Websites:

Wikipedia: Tailor

Merchant Taylors' Company

About Britain: Tailor

University of Arts: London College of Fashion (Records of the Tailor and Outfitters Assistants' Mutual Association

University of Warwick Library (Records of the Natioal Union of Tailor and Garment Workers and the Amalgamated Union of Clothier's Operatives

Reading materials:

The Book of English Trades, and Library of Useful Arts

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