FASHION.

£400 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Menswear salesman's sample case. An ephemeral window onto menswear retailing in FDR's America, offering the dream of personalized tailoring at an affordable cost. The Rosecliff-Quaker Corporation boasted that it employed 10,000 people coast to coast, used only unionized labour, and guaranteed its shirts for a year.

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