Pure wool fabrics. Spring and Summer 1926. Let Taylor do your tailoring; Stock Report and Bargain List. [Salesman sample catalogue with original price list and stock on hand].

by [FASHION -- JAZZ AGE TEXTILES].

$1,250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York & Chicago: J.L. Taylor & Co., 1926. Thick elephant folio (17 x 23.25 x 2.5 ins.). 75, [3] pp. printed on thick card stock, each mounted on linen hinge. With 17 colour fashion plates illustrating Taylor styles of the period, verso of almost all pages with 364 (of 375) mounted textile samples in wool, wool-rayon blends, some felt backed, silk, moleskin, corduroy, cashmere, waistband sample, and more -- all samples clearly marked with prices, and availability (some of the 12 missing samples are indicated in pencil as being “Out”, as well as a few present, 1 additional pinned-in), numerous illustrations throughout in blue-green colour tinting, including Chicago & New York factories, some diagrams, charts, and graphs. Original half-green cloth over gray, green cloth corners, gilt lettering on front cover, colour plate w/ J.L. Taylor tailor mounted front cover (some wear & minor bumping to fore-edges, corners, some minor soiling & occasional foxing to interior leaves -- some of it dust from the wool samples, 10-15 samples with minor deterioration, and evidence of old predation), still a very good unsophisticated and remarkably complete example, w/ original 9 x 21 in. double-sided stock list in red & black laid-in. First edition of this scarce and unusually complete salesman sample catalogue for Jazz era men’s suits in 1928-1929. J.L. Taylor maintained a huge tailoring operation in both Chicago and New York until after World War II, employing hundreds of tailors and seamstr

• Publisher: J.L. Taylor & Co.,
• Year: 1926
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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